Beef offal

Kou Kam-chun: founder of Wing Kei Beef Offal, Macau's curried-offal house

Kou Kam-chun

Kou Kam-chun is the founder of Wing Kei Beef Offal (榮記牛雜) in Macau. A former worker at a sauce garden (醬園), he created his own secret sauce and from the 1930s sold beef offal as a carrying-pole hawker in Guangzhou alongside his wife Choi Kiu (蔡嬌); in 1953, owing to illness, he moved the family to Macau. Wing Kei is famous for slow-braised beef offal in a Macanese Portuguese-Indian-style curry, with branches in Taipa (官也街) and around Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro / the Ruins of St Paul's (新馬路/大三巴). His daughter Kou Ut-sim (高月嬋) took over as the second generation in 1980, and it is now run by third-generation Leong U-weng (梁宇榮). Note: despite the shared "Wing Kei" (榮記), Wing Kei Beef Offal is unrelated to the separate Wing Kei tofu-noodle shop (榮記荳腐麵食).