We had planned our day at Taipa 氹仔(dang4zai3) today. We took free shuttle from our hotel to the Macau Ferry Terminal for transit to The Venetian Macao Resort & Hotel (澳门威尼斯人酒店）. There were many Venetian shuttle buses, the interval was about 10-15mins. While for other casinos/hotels, around 15-30mins. Upon arrival, I was shocked that the check in counter to the hotel was crowded with guests. I was puzzled because this 5 star hotel room rates were very high. As the time was still early for lunch, we toured this newly built hotel. I could not use words to describe this building, it's huge, unique, elegant and grand. It's very impressive and amazing!
Wow!!! Very beautiful car porch ceiling at the main entrance...
Indoor sky ceiling at food court area were very nice. I was thinking it would be better if the sky could change from morning to night according to the time. The canoe riding was very romantic, there were real person singing while maneuvering the canoes.
Next, we planned to head to Taipa Rua Do Cunha (官也街) for lunch.
Here we were at Villa Da Taipa氹仔(dang4zai3), it was just about 15-25mins walk from The Venetian.
One of our reasons to visit Taipa village on Sunday was to shop at the Sunday Taipa Flea Market （跳蚤市场) between Rua do Cunha (官也街) and Rua de Regedor (地堡街）(Bombeiros Square). But to our disappointment, there were just merely less than 10 stalls. The stalls were selling handmade stuff like bric-a-brac, momentos, knitted jumpers and shirts, handicrafts, souvenirs, old $ notes & coins. Hmm... :-( We ended up buying nothing.
The time was around 12pm and we headed straight to Seng Cheong 诚昌饭店（氹仔官也街28-30号), we put our name in the waiting list and they asked us to return at 1.30pm. Wow! As expected long queue in their list on Sunday.
We continued to walk around Rua do Cunha (官也街), this little lane was crowded with tourists. There was this old biscuits shop Pastelaria Fong Kei ( 晃记饼家）with a lot of people queuing outside the shop. Later there was a moment that was no queue so my mum quickly bought some of the biscuits too. After trying, the biscuits were nice but I still prefer the Koi Kee's biscuits.
Let’s have some ice cream dessert from Gelatina Mok Yi Kei (莫义记).
Enjoying my ice cream by sitting in the middle of Rua do Cunha (官也街), while my mum buying some sweets at Old Cherykoff （老牌车厘哥夫）as souvenirs.
Eel (鳗鱼) is another specialty here. It’s nice but the serving was too big.
This lunch costs us about MOP400+. We could have better meal for 4 in KL.
I overheard the conversation next to our table that they were going for Tau Fu Fa later. But I didn’t see that in the recommendation leaflet/brochure. But we found the stall that they were saying 馨发豆花 in another small lane perpendicular to Rua do Cunha (官也街), which was Rua dos Clerigos 木鐸街.
There were many flavours of tau fu fa, the lady boss who’s very friendly recommended us to take their specialty hot & sour soya bean curd 酸辣汤豆花, all the flavours were too fancy therefore one of us dare to try. I was the only one that had the courage to order and ended up ordering 虾皮豆花 also recommended by the owner. It was not like normal bean curd that was sweet. It was salty with some salted vege & dried prawns. The bean curd did not look nice but it was very smooth and tasted very nice!
My mum ordered something more traditional, which was the grinded black sesame dessert (黑芝麻糊) which tasted good too! Too bad that we had heavy meal for lunch, else I would have tried more of the tau fu fa.
Last but not least, our final mission at Taipa was to try the famous pork chop bun (猪扒包）at Tai Lei Loi Kee（大利来记） which were only ready after 3pm. It was our unlucky day that this shop was closed for 1 week, it will only reopen in 2 days time. Oh no! We just missed it as we were leaving Macau tomorrow. Sob…sob!! I was very very upset! The Tau Fu Fa boss recommended us another shop also famous for pork chop bun (猪扒包) at San Hou Lei (新好利咖啡饼店), located at Rua de Regedor (地堡街), just opposite McDonald's. According to her, this shop was about 80% as good as Tai Lei Loi Kee. Outside and inside the shop was a lot of people. I saw some magazine cuttings introducing about this café, so I expected this to be good.
Along the Rua de Regedor (地堡街)
That’s all at Taipa. And we were leaving back to The Venetian Casino. And in the late afternoon, we took the free shuttle back to our hotel. My parents went back to hotel for rest while me & hubby went to Grand Emperor Casino （英皇娱乐酒店）and also around the Fisherman’s Wharf（渔人码头).
We for last night's place for our dinner at again at Rua da Felicidade (福隆新街). We had shark-fin soup at Tim Fatt 添发碗仔翅美食. We were lucky that we did not have to wait like last night. We ordered their famous “sea cucumber, fish maw & shark fin soup” served in clay port (海篸鱼肚砂锅翅) at MOP230, which was enough for sharing. Thumb up for this!
Next, we had meat ball porridge (猪肉丸粥/金银丸粥）and mixed intestine & meat porridge （及第粥）at MOP17/bowl at Sam Un Loja De Ganja (三元粥品专家). It was scrumptious! Must try!
It was best to stroll around Senado Square after dinner. The night scenery and lightings were totally different compared to the morning. All the lightings and festive decorations were temporary and it was dissembled on the next day.
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