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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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.…

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  • Rossio 盛事 @ MGM Grand, Macau

    This restaurant Rossio (盛事) is located inside the MGM Grand just beyond the gambling floor.  I am not sure what cuisine it serves normally.  They were offering seafood buffet the night we went (Chinese New Year’s eve) – on offer were unlimited sushi, oysters, snow crab legs, shark’s fin soup, a wide selection of international dishes,…

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  • Largo do Lilau, Macau 亞婆井前地

    We walked from A-Ma Temple via Calçada da Barra and was looking for a way to get up to the Church of our lady of Penha  (Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Penha, 澳門主教山小堂). And we wandered into Largo do Lilau (Lilau Square or 亞婆井前地) which is a part of the UNESCO recognized “Historic Centre of Macau”.…

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