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Macao, China — 

Long before Tex-Mex and VietCajun, there was Macanese, the world’s first-ever fusion food.

Macao was Asia’s first European colony. A pair of islands in southern China’s Pearl River Delta, just across the water from Hong Kong, this small colony became an important shipping and trading center.