MGM proactively curates a year-round calendar of entertainment mega events that showcases great creativity and originality. MGM and Nicholas “Chef Nic” Tse are bringing the “MGM Chef Nic Gastronomusic Fest” back for its third edition, taking place on November 30 and December 1 at MGM COTAI, following the festival’s highly lauded previous runs.

Multi-hyphenated artist Nicholas “Chef Nic” Tse is leading his team of chefs in an exchange of culinary skills with MGM’s celebrity chefs to present more than 20 new culinary delights to audiences. Nine pop singers from the Hong Kong SAR, South Korea and Thailand will also be lighting up the festival stage, creating an entertaining and multi-sensorial experience that stimulates the palate, audio and visual senses for local and international festival attendees, while demonstrating the charm of Macau as a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy.

This two-day outdoor rock music festival features five hours of festivities each day, and has a special pop-up in-store, from two famous Southeast Asian eateries, Singapore’s Keng Eng Kee (KEK) Seafood and Thailand’s popular dessert parlor After You.

The world-class restaurant KEK Seafood was ranked on 2021’s Asia’s “50 Best Restaurants – Essence of Asia” list and was also recommended for nine consecutive years on the Michelin Guide.

Their famous Signature Chili Crab, which was showcased on the Neftlix documentary “Street Food: Asia”, will be brought to Macau for the first time at the Chef Nic Gastronomusic Fest.

Additionally, the viral dessert cafe After You with a devoted fan following will be serving up a tempting array of novel renditions of Thai-style desserts.
Their signature “Milk Bun”, which retails an annual average of 1.2 million boxes in Thailand; keep an eye out for a potential new flavor to be introduced at the festival, in addition to the already popular original flavor available in Hong Kong.


