Category: childhood memories

9th February 2021

Macau’s best golden biscuit

The best traditional snacks located at the Senado Square Macau; “Pun Veng Kei” golden crunchy biscuit, has a history of more than 70 years in Macau. This “Street cart” pastry stall has long queues almost every single day. Remembering the flagship store’s memories located next to the pepper-cake stores at Rua da Palha; Listening to the mahjong noises inside the...

Categories Alleyways/childhood memories/Chinese Bakery/Food/Heritage/Macau Culture/Photography/Street food/Uncategorized

6th January 2021

Portugal National Poet (Luís de Camões) Bronze Statue

Portugal’s national poet Luís de Camões bronze statue In Camões Garden, there is a grotto composes of three large rocks. In the cave built a bronze statue of a legendary Portuguese bronze bust. The poet, who was born in a ruined noble family more than 400 years ago, banished to Macau for offending court officials. His poems inherited the folk...

Categories Alleyways/childhood memories/Church/Festival/Garden/Heritage/Love and Soul/Macau Culture/Old Street/Photography/slowdown attitude/Uncategorized

31st December 2020

Casa Garden (Orient Foundation)

In 1770, Manuel Pereira, a wealthy Portuguese businessman; Founder in Macau’s insurance industries; built a two and a half-storey garden-style villa. It was absolutely gorgeous, show its noble kind; and claimed as the most spectacular building of all. Recalled by one of American Businessman “The Palace”. In 1780, Pereira leased to the British East India Company. The tenant invented Portuguese-English...

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31st December 2020

St. Anthony’s Parish’s Luís de Camões Park

Luís de Camões Park  is near the St. Anthony’s Church, the Casa Garden, neighboring Protestant Cemetery; is located in front of the Park. It is one of the historic parks in Macau too, covering an area total of 20,000 square meters. Built in the middle of the eighteenth century and was originally the park villa from one of the wealthy...

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25th December 2020

Macanese Christmas Desserts

When young remembered the church’s midnight mass that must attend on Christmas Eve; neatly well dressed, sharing a lively, but peaceful two hours gathering. Immediately after the ceremony arrived at my cousin’s home start off our family Christmas parties; same time exchange gifts, eat and drink well, most of all having fun with all cousins and relatives, getting busy till...

Categories Afternoon Tea Time/Alleyways/Bacalhau croquette/childhood memories/Complicated/Crunchy Snacks/Dried Fruit/Family Recipe/Festival/Food/Luxury/Macanese/Uncategorized

16th December 2020

St Anthony’s Church

One of the three ancient Catholic churches in Macau; orginally built in the 15th century. It was the place where the Jesuits originally stationed in Macau. Under church’s domination as the Saint Anthony’s. In the past, most Portuguese weddings were held in this church. The believers wore brand-new white robes and held flowers in their hands. The entire place was...

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14th December 2020

Macau Thai Cultural Festival

All the past years lived lots of Thai Chinese migrate from Thailand rooting Thai food and traditional customs in Macau. Thus, many Thai restaurants have well mixed with elements of relatively primitive Macau Thai Cuisine, creating unique, localised Thai cuisine. Yet unknowingly injected within Macau’s daily life. Truly, Thai food has claimed as one of the most popular dishes today....

Categories Alleyways/Chicken Rice/childhood memories/Crunchy Snacks/Dim Sum/Dried Fruit/Dried Noodle/Family Recipe/Festival/Food/Macau Culture/Market/Old Street/Photography/Souvenir/Street food/Thai Noodles/Uncategorized/Vegetarian

1st December 2020

Vah Thai Noodles

One night passing by in the street of Rua Nova a Guia, the glamorous shinny newly renovated noodle shop at the doorway attracted my eye sight; that was exactly the re-branded Vah Thai Noodle shop. The nice fragrance simmering on the main road really made me so hungry; at some point cannot bear the hunger anymore; decided to take a...

Categories Alleyways/Beef and Pork offal/childhood memories/Family Recipe/Food/Intense soup/Lunch/Macau Culture/Rice Noodle/Thai Noodles/Uncategorized

27th November 2020

Macanese Cuisine Database

Macanese cuisine always appeal as historical, invaluable Macau cultural reflections. Blended with cross cultural cuisines integrations derived from Europe, Asia and Africa; It all clearly cut out real actual fusion from Eastern and Western cultures; that embodies the co-existence of Macau’s four hundred years culture and city development. Macanese Cuisine Datbase Assigned as UNESCO Create Macau City of Gastronomy in...

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23rd November 2020

Montanha Russa Park

My last Montanha Russa Park visit was back in my primary school’s annual excursions, named “Kids Hiking”. All students and teachers from the same grade gathered in one, taking school bus direct to the park for picnics and fun games. In those years considered as one of the flagship annual event. The park’s iconic feature start from the entrance, along...

Categories Afternoon Tea Time/childhood memories/Crunchy Snacks/Dried Noodle/Food/Lunch/Macau Culture/Photography/Rice Noodle/Tea house/Uncategorized