Month: March 2011
黃枝記粥麵店 Wong Chi Kee Congee & Noodle Shop
On this trip, two restaurants are worth a special mention – they are both inexpensive, reliable, open at all hours, and make an effort to produce a best-in-class dish. They are well-known locally and I am now a fan too. The first is 黃枝記粥麵店 Wong Chi Kee Congee & Noodle shop (WCK), the other is…
The Shopping Arcades: vrai ou faux
One thing you cannot avoid in these Macau hotels is the shopping arcade, each with the same ubiquitous luxury brands – some more exclusive than the others – all expensive but boring – and they were mostly empty when we were visiting. The masses had not yet descended on these hotels and shopping centers as…
Our 200th post
Hudson and GW bridge from our old home in Edgewater This is our 200th post – a small landmark ! Celebrating with a random collection of pictures and … Near Geneve We also want to announce that our Links page is finally up. It is in the top right hand corner of the page. Scroll…
MGM Grand, Macau and lions
We had dinner at MGM’s Rossio, some of the tables spilled into the atrium of the hotel. The atrium was fantastically decorated, almost to the point of being garish. But it was an immense space, as a result, the large number of fake trees with lights were not claustrophobic but it was a bit overdone.…