Rendezvous in Macau (Day 2)

Date: Tuesday, 29 Dec 2009

Hotel Breakfast

Edible and forgettable. Ha!

皮蛋瘦肉粥


My toast set


His toast set. Eat so much!

My favourite cereals, but this one was forgettable. Not crisp.

Cherry tomatoes, our favourite!

It's pretty easy to travel around Macau, just hop from one hotel/casino shuttle to another, FOC!

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Our first stop of the day: City of Dreams. Turned out to be a fantastic choice!

On the shuttle to City of Dreams, we got coupons that entitled us to free admission to a show at The Bubble @ City of Dreams.

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The show was pretty cool actually. The place was a dome like the Omni-Theatre, and apart from what I captured in the pics above, there was a 10-min animated feature about a dragon story being projected on the whole dome, complete with laser and smoke effects. It was quite a visual delight, though my neck ached from looking up the whole time.

There was a free shuttle from City of Dreams to Taipa City! Yippee! That's why coming to City of Dreams first turned out to be a wonderfully lucky choice. Hehe!
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氹仔 Taipa City / Taipa Village
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Rainy day. Let's take a photo while waiting for the drizzle to stop!

Heading back to why we came to Taipa for - PORK CHOP BUN!!

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I really like this quaint little town.

天后宫，just across the street from my PORK CHOP BUN!

The flowers in front of 天后宫.

大利來記咖啡室 (Cafe Tai Lei Loi Kei)
澳门凼仔巴波沙总督前地18号

(Largo Governador Tamagnini Barbosa 18 Taipa)
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就是这里了，我期待多时的猪扒包！
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猪扒包3点钟才出炉，我们先点了两杯鸳鸯。

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好有趣哦，端上的是半杯咖啡，茶要自己加入!

2点40分，店员喊说猪扒包要出炉了，大家赶快上前排队！没夸张哦！这次轮到我的 darling 伺候我了！嘻嘻！

十分钟后，热烘烘的猪扒包终于出现在我的面前！

面包好吃！猪扒好吃！真好吃！Yum! Yum!

He said that the pork chop bun is worth queuing for again the next time he comes to Macau. Mind you, this is one guy who hates queuing for anything and everything, which shows how good this pork chop bun is! Ooh, we loved it! Yummy!

Taipa Houses Museum

The red building in the background is a police station.

Walking towards the Taipa Houses Museum, we passed by several 兄弟车.

Nope, this is not the Taipa Houses Museum yet.

Tada, down there! Wow, a bride and the whole entourage as well!

Oh, there's a tulip exhibition! How lucky we were to chance upon this pretty sight!

Lovely!

OMG, I really love this place with pretty flowers!

This scene of withering lotus reminded me of an ink painting by Wu Guanzhong. (Maisie, your favourite sad painting, remember?)

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Ok, finally proceeding to the Taipa Houses Museum. Free admission on Tuesday!

Flowers planted at the front porch of each house-museum.

Oops, no photo-taking in the museum!

Leaving the museum. This must be the bridal car! What are those soft toys?

Did I mention that I love this quaint place? Macau is so small that you can cover it by foot! We toured Taipa by foot! Woohoo!

He kept asking me why I would take a photo of the wind vane. It's not a common sight in Singapore mah, at least not to me.

Rua da Cunha (官也街)

The famed street in Taipa, where we would find the famous water crab porridge.

誠昌飯店 (Seng Cheong)

氹仔官也街28-30號 (28-30 Rua da Cunha)

Really famous, just look at the crowd!
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驰名水蟹粥

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椒盐田鸡腿

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I liked the crab porridge, but found the frog's legs too oily.

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Making our way to take the shuttle back to City of Dreams. The pickup point is just behind McDonald's, which is near the initial drop-off point.
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City of Dreams

The Venetian

The Venetian is just across the road from City of Dreams and the mister was dreaming of striking a fortune at the jackpot at the Venetian casino!
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Inside the Venetian

We both liked the patterned flooring.

Taking a break for a coke at McDonald's before trying our luck at the slot machines.

It turned out to be our lucky night! Hehe!