Macau & Zhuhai (Part 5)

11-16 Feb 2009



Continue from Macau & Zhuhai (Part 4)

Day 6: 16/2/09 Mon (Macau - KL)

1st stop for breakfast was at Margaret's Café e Nata (玛嘉烈蛋挞) located at an alley around Av. D.Joao IV and Av. Infante D. Henrique, which was opposite to Hotel Sintra. When u reached Hotel Sintra, just ask around the locals and I'm sure they can tell you how to get there.The address is Gum Loi Building, Rua Almirante Costa Cabra. It opens from 6:30am-8pm and closed on Wednesday. The cafe was located behind the buildings which could not be seen at the main road. It was about 5 mins walk from our hotel. A lot of students took away pick and mix sandwiches. A ‘Must Try’ was the Portuguese Egg Tart (葡式蛋挞). My sister blamed us that we did not take away some for her to try. Next time she has to go there herself lor…

2nd stop for breakfast was to try the chee cheong fun（猪肠粉) at Patio do Cotovelo 手肘围 (德隆新街), just next to 财神爷饭店. We had a hard time looking for the place although we had the address and map However, in the end we managed to find it. And I understood why the street name was not printed on the map. It was a very small side lane between 2 buildings, I think it was just 10-12ft wide. And we passed by outside this street few times at night on our way to Rua da Felicidade (福隆新街). But we did not realized the stall was actually hidden inside the lane.

We ordered plain porridge (with ginkgo) which was best to reduce heat in our body and chee cheong fun served with 4 different types of sauces (chili, sweet, sesame (I guessed) and mustard). We even forgot to take photo of our food.

3rd stop - Across the road was another stall selling porridge 成记粥品at side lane. very good business indeed. I saw a lot of newspaper cuttings and photos of the owner taken with artists pasted at the stall.

Although we were quite full till then, we continued to order 1 bowl of meat ball porridge for sharing. The owner was very friendly. The porridge was similar to the one we had last night at San Un. This one here was cheaper, with more meat balls and tasty too. Both were also delicious, but I preferred the porridge at San Un.

We then continued with our part 2 of the “historical walk” .

10. "Leal Senado" Building（议事亭前地）－built in 1784, this was Macau's first municipal chamber, a function it maintains to the present. The name "Leal Senado" ("Loyal Senate"), derives from the title "City of Our Name of God Macau, There is None More Loyal".

The "Leal Senado" Building is neo-classical in design and has retained all its original master walls ad primary layout, including the courtyard garden in the back.

Inside the building on the first floor there is a ceremonial meeting room.


Continuing our journey along Calcada do Tronco Velho.

11. St. Augustine's Church - First established by Spanish Augustinians in 1591.

12. Sir Robert Ho Tung Library - Constructed before 1894 and was originally the residence of Dona Carolina Cunha. HK businessman Sir Robert Ho Tung purchased it in 1918, using it as his retreat. He passed away in 1955 and in accordance with his will, the building was presented to the Macau Government for conversion into a public library.

Half of the way, we decided not to continue our walk and took a taxi to our final historic place, the A-Ma Temple (妈阁庙).

13. A-Ma Temple - This temple already existed before the city of Macau came into being It consists of the Gate Pavilion, the Memorial Arch, the Prayer Hall, the Hall of Benevolence, the Hall of Guanyin, and Zhegjiao Chanlin (a Buddhist pavilion).

At the main entrance of the temple.

In the temple, praying....

Joss stick with colourful printed wordings.


Fancy praying things.

Posing at the top of the temple.

Photo taken from top of temple, the temple was facing the sea.

For lunch, we had arranged Portuguese Food nearby A-Ma Temple at Rua Do Almirante Sergio (河边新街). There were 2 Portuguese Restaurants that were highly recommended – Restaurante Litoral (海湾餐厅) and Restaurante A Lorcha. We simply picked Litoral.

Our starter was Chourico (sausage).

Main course were……Bacalhau (codfish) (雪鱼）, the fish was marinated with salt and air-dried, like salted fish but the fish was soft and good! And African Chicken (非洲鸡), the chicken cooked in sauce with coconut milk that was like 'rendang' but not spicy. The chicken tasted good too!

And dessert was Serradura pudding.These few dishes costed us MOP500+.

There was still some time before we need to go to the airport. Our final destination at Macau was the Macau Tower Convention & Entertainment Centre. The entrance fee was MOP85/adult. This was our last minute decision, it would be cheaper if we bought the entrance tickets at the travel agencies at the ferry terminal.

It was quite misty on the day and we did not get a good shot of photos up on the tower. There were glass panel on the floor where we could see the ground clearly. It was scary for me to step and walk on the glass panel. I managed to sit on the glass panel and my leg was numbed as I tried to get up. Haha!!

We went a floor above us to witness bungee jump. It was very excited and my heart was about to bounce out by looking the people jumped down at 223m above ground level. It was my parents first time to see bungee jumping. This was my second time and my first time was at Auckland Tower and Queensland, New Zealand. I did not have the guts to even step out the tower.

Landing of bungee jumping at ground level.

Scenery around ground level of Macau Tower.

Our journey did not just end here yet, we were back to the Senado Square again. I wanted to have the double layered milk pudding at Yi Shun Milk Company again!! Yes, only me alone went into the shop and ordered 1 bowl for myself. Although just a small bowl, it was very filling.

Then we went to Wong Chee Kei Congee & Noodles(黄枝记粥面) at Senado Square to eat!!

I ordered prawn noodle again (虾子面), just wanted to try for second time. And I did not like it. Milk tea in Macau was general very high standard, tasted nice!!!

We had wanton soup and fried noodles.

And off we were at Macau Airport. BYE BYE!