In the first ten years or so of the Portuguese presence in Macao, Portuguese men were mostly married to Christian women from Malacca and Nagasaki and these women brought with them the habits and customs of their respective cities. For instance, eyewitness accounts describe the apparel of Japanese wives who wore sarong and cabaia in public while changing into kimono on returning home. Sartorial habits like these as well as other imported cultural traditions permeated Macanese culture and Macanese cuisine in particular displays this inherited legacy with dishes that reveal long forgotten Japanese influence in names and flavours.