Culinary students shine at Macao's tourism school

Macao's steady stream of inbound tourists makes booking mandatory to secure a table in practically every decent restaurant.

Despite the somewhat out-of-the-way locale and even after many years of operation, IFT Educational Restaurant is still one of the hottest places in town. That made me all the more determined to try it.

I finally got a chance on a recent business trip and had a friend, jewelry designer Dora Tam, join me. Macao is notorious for being a place where it's difficult to flag taxis during rush hour, so I decided to bite the bullet and walked to the restaurant from where I thought was a nearby bus stop. That turned out to be a 20-minute hike followed by a steady climb up to the summit of Mong-Ha Hill. Needless to say, I worked up sufficient appetite to warrant the long anticipated meal at IFT.