No trip to
Hong Kong is complete without stopping by Macao - Asia's
Las Vegas but with less excitement and grandeur. On Thursday, I met up with
Janny and Jason, friends I met through Karen, to take the ferry boat over from Kowloon to Macao. These air conditioned ferry boats with leather seats run every half hour from
HK to Macao and cost
HK$270 ($35) for
round trip tickets. Macao is famous for its casinos and fine dining and serves as a popular retreat for those from China and
HK as well as the rest of Asia since Asians love to gamble and eat. As it was once a Portuguese colony, everything is written in both Chinese and Portuguese, and the European country's influence is very much present in Macao's food and architecture.
We had to go through immigration once we landed so don't forget to bring your passport. There are free shuttles from the pier to every hotel, so once we figured out which general area we wanted to go to (where all the food and shopping is), we took the shuttle to the closest hotel and saved on taxi fare. After a delicious and filling lunch of Portuguese baked chicken rice, we walked around a shopping district and found our way to the Ruins of St.
Pauls (left picture). I'm sure there is some historical significance, but I only wanted to go there because I have these old pictures of me and my family taken in front of the same structure when I was five years old. Macao is also known for fine pastries and desserts like almond cookies, Portuguese egg custard tart (right picture), and double boiled milk custard - so of course we tried them all throughout the day! Although we didn't get to check out the new Venetian or Wynn that just opened up, we hear that all the casinos in Macao have been meticulously designed to have bad
feng shui for all their customers so they'll lose their money. You may think those crystals hanging over the escalators are elegant, but they were placed there as daggers to take all your luck away.
No trip to Hong Kong is complete without stopping by Macao - Asia's Las Vegas but with less excitement and grandeur. On Thursday, I met up with Janny and Jason, friends I met through Karen, to take the ferry boat over from Kowloon to Macao. These air conditioned ferry boats with leather seats run every half hour from HK to Macao and cost HK$270 ($35) for round trip tickets. Macao is famous for its casinos and fine dining and serves as a popular retreat for those from China and HK as well as the rest of Asia since Asians love to gamble and eat. As it was once a Portuguese colony, everything is written in both Chinese and Portuguese, and the European country's influence is very much present in Macao's food and architecture.
We had to go through immigration once we landed so don't forget to bring your passport. There are free shuttles from the pier to every hotel, so once we figured out which general area we wanted to go to (where all the food and shopping is), we took the shuttle to the closest hotel and saved on taxi fare. After a delicious and filling lunch of Portuguese baked chicken rice, we walked around a shopping district and found our way to the Ruins of St. Pauls (left picture). I'm sure there is some historical significance, but I only wanted to go there because I have these old pictures of me and my family taken in front of the same structure when I was five years old. Macao is also known for fine pastries and desserts like almond cookies, Portuguese egg custard tart (right picture), and double boiled milk custard - so of course we tried them all throughout the day! Although we didn't get to check out the new Venetian or Wynn that just opened up, we hear that all the casinos in Macao have been meticulously designed to have bad feng shui for all their customers so they'll lose their money. You may think those crystals hanging over the escalators are elegant, but they were placed there as daggers to take all your luck away.
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I love those Portuguese egg custard tart...They are the best In Macao...Wish I was there too...
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