Macau Day Trip Part 2

As mentioned in previous post, I went to Macau for day trip during my 9-days Hong Kong Trip. After visiting St Domingo's Church and Ruins of St Paul, we tried some local cuisine - portuguese egg tarts (葡挞) and pork chop bun (猪扒包).

We went to try Portuguese Egg Tarts at Cafe e Nata Margaret's in the evening and the queue was shocking. We queued for about 30-45 minutes. The egg tarts sold out real fast and it was really hard to get a seat to dine in. My friend and I ordered half dozen of egg tarts and finished all within 20 minutes. Slurps... It was good, not too sweet, the ratio of biscuits and eggs was just nice. @_@ Awwww...... I'm missing the tarts now. 

The logo of the shop

Me and the egg tart. Looks nice isn't it? Both people and food. XD

We tried pork chop bun too but it doesn't really up to my expectation. So I decided not to recommend it here. =) 

After trying egg tarts, we went to hunt for the recommended biscuit shop. We found out in the macau guide that it will be closing at 7pm so we walked kinda fast to search for it. Luckily we found the shop and bought my souvenirs! Mission accomplished!

Here's some photos to show you how the shop looks like. It does not looks like those fancy biscuits shop near Ruins of St Paul. It looks so traditional and I feel more confident with their biscuits. Bought some almond cookies and egg rolls from them, and they tasted really good. Fresh and delicious. Recommend to all my readers to try this shop -- Pastelaria Chui Heong (最香饼家)

So traditional! Look at the bottles!

Even Louis Koo was here before for a movie! Oh, and look at the freshly baked almond cookies!

After buying biscuits, I went to visit Macau casinos. First one was Casino Lisboa (new), followed by Casino Lisboa (old) and Casino Gold Sand. The casinos in Macau are really grand and cool. They are bigger than those that I've visited previously (Casino in Melbourne and Genting Highlands). Even the decorations in casinos can be tourist attraction. I overheard a tour guide telling his group that they can snap some photos in the casino and leave after that. Being an adventurous tourist, I was thinking what is so special in the casino lobby and went in to take a look. Hmmmm..... I'm amazed. Look at the photos below and you will know what I mean. =)

Entrance of the casino. I like the colourful lights. =D

Super grand stairs! That's where the princess walk down for their ball. Ooopsss! Sorry for day-dreaming. 

Last but not least, cinderella-like christmas decoration in the casino. 

We tried our luck gambling and I lost. Friend is smart and lucky. She won back some bucks and our turbojet ticket fare. I'm so glad to have her as my guide (指路明灯). I learnt how to gamble and how to be a tourist with sense of direction. Oh, I miss her already. And so we ended our macau day trip by taking turbojet back Hong Kong around 11pm.

Macau Day Trip Part 1

So here's the long waited Macau Day Trip post. We did not buy our tickets ahead, so we have to buy the deluxe seats (豪华位) to get the timing that suits us. Without doing much research, we bought a tourist guide from 7-eleven and did our quick 1-hour read up in the turbojet. 

A photo at turbojet terminal. =D Deluxe seat is really comfortable. It comes with a meal too. 

The journey from Hong Kong to Macau by turbojet is only 1 hour. I felt a little dizzy in the boat and slept for a while. Reached Macau and we started our journey by taking a cab to Wine & Grand Prix Museum (葡萄酒和赛车博物馆). Before entering the museum, I went to the park opposite the museum to grab a photo as a tourist. 

Tourist in action!! Cheese... =) Love the colour combination of this photo - blue sky, flowers, buildings and me in white!

Grand Prix museum. Lots of cool cars and engines displayed for fans. 

Wine Museum is kinda amazing too. They have different wines on displayed and also portugese traditional costumes. There's also a corner showing how red wine is being processed. If you are a wine lover, drop by to take a look. Entrance fee is just HKD10 if I'm not mistaken.

After visiting museums, we continued our journey with another cab to Avenida de Almeida Riberio (新马路) so that we could visit St. Domingo's Church, Ruins of St Paul and other tourist spots. 

St Domingo's Church - it is located in the heart of Senado Square of Macau. It is one of the attraction listed on the World Heritage List. There are lots of tourists in the church and the church is rather big and pretty. I was quite amazed although I've been to several church in Malaysia and Australia. 

This is how St Domingo's Church looks like. The man behind trying to seek some attention from us. LOL

Ruins of St Paul (大三巴牌坊) - built in 17th century and was destroyed by fire in 1835. This is like the main tourist spot of Macau and so please expect a super duper huge crowd during holidays. It was so hard for us to find a nice spot to take photos without anyone behind us. 

Ruins of St Paul. Still, Sky is perfect for us to take photo.

Along our way to Ruins of St Paul from Avenida de Almeida Riberio, there's plenty of shops selling almond cookies, dried meat (bak gua), dried seafood, etc etc... Many tourists have either 钜记 or 咀香园 bags with them but my friend recommended me to buy the cookies from another shop. What is that? Please wait for part 2!