Macau has been officially selected as the new member of “UNESCO Creative Cities Network（UCCN）” on November 1st 2017. Macau became the third Chinese city which is awarded the “Creative City of Gastronomy” after Chengdu and Shunde joined the network successfully. Macau rating as the “City of Gastronomy” indicated the recognition of Macau’s food cultural heritage by UNESCO，which will also bring new opportunities and challenges to the development of food tourism in Macau. How to open up a new vision of a diversified，unique and sustainable city for Macau；how to create Macau’s own characteristics by taking advantage of the city’s name card of “City of Gastronomy” and embracing and absorbing the advantages of others；how to research systematically and cultivating talents professionally；how to inherit the tradition and culture of the traditional shops，and to propagate the food tourism of Macau in a leading way according to the local advantage. All of these above will become the important parts of future development of Macau as a “Creative City of Gastronomy”.