Monthly Archive: December, 2020

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...

Categories Alleyways/childhood memories/Garden/Heritage/Macanese/Macau Culture/Old Street/Photography/slowdown attitude/Uncategorized

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...

Categories Alleyways/childhood memories/Church/Festival/Fuk Tak Chi/Garden/Heritage/Macanese/Macau Culture/Old Street/Photography/Ruins of St Paul/Temple/Uncategorized

26th December 2020

The Ten Prints of Lima De Freitas

(Annotation acquired from The Notice board in Jardim de Luis de Camoes) Poet Luis Vaz de Camoes Luis Vaz de Camoes is a great poet of Portugal. The date of his death, 10 Jun; is observed as the “Portugal Day” commemoration of his literary contributions to the Republic of Portugal. He wrote many lyric poems which showed great sensitivity “The...

Categories Alleyways/Church/Festival/Garden/Heritage/Macau Culture/Old Street/slowdown attitude/Uncategorized

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...

Categories Alleyways/childhood memories/Church/Macau Culture/Old Street/Photography/Uncategorized

15th December 2020

Midnight place The Ajikura

Business operating for nearly fifteen years, located near the Dynasty, London Street, Rua de Londres. Hosted by Japanese chef and his wife, in charge of the front services and greetings; working as a perfect partnering role, they created variety of Japanese dishes for years. The restaurant owned two-stories high. The ground level dominated corely sushi bar area, with few small...

Categories Alleyways/Assorted sushi mix/Assorted tempura/Barbecue pork/Complicated/Dinner/Food/Japanese Cuisine/Luxury Cuisine/Uncategorized

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

8th December 2020

Old Macau Tradition Association

Speaking of Cantonese cuisine varieties in Macau, it all offer high-qualities, unique unforgettable flavors; from traditional to modern, anti-traditional cooking models, combined with Chinese and Western ways. Provided majority Macau hotel outlets that offer spectacular, special chinese flavors with its own authentic tastes; Regardless the top noch services that matters, or the full satisfaction left in its own taste buds,...

Categories Alleyways/Complicated/Dinner/Family Recipe/Food/Luxury Cuisine/Macau Culture/Old Street/Photography/Private Kitchen/Uncategorized

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