This is the kind of cozy and homey Portuguese restaurant where the chef becomes your friend. Tucked away in one of the quaint alleys in the heart of Taipa village, António is indeed a Portuguese culinary paradise in Macau. Chef António Coelho, a 60-ish Portuguese with extensive culinary experience who has been cooking authentic Portuguese…
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Macau: Of Wines & Men
Enjoy a historic and cultural walk-through of the Wine and the Vineyard to learn about wine production in different parts of the world at the Wine Museum next to Macau Grand Prix Museum. Upon entrance to the Wine Museum, visitors will meet mannequins donned in traditional costumes of different regions of Portugal. The former Portuguese…
Macau: Ruins of St Paul’s
I guess many of us who haven’t been to Macau before might have already seen the Ruins of St Paul’s before anything else on the peninsula. Photos of the famous baroque façade are so commonly printed on guidebooks, magazines, postcards and any promotional articles about the city that the image has already etched into my…
Macau: Mandarin’s House
The diverse collection of old buildings, colonial churches, monuments and temples enlisted in the UNESCO World Heritage Site “Historic Centre of Macau” is the evidence of a modernized city packed with a multicultural mix of the East and the West. Among the architectural legacies of Macau, a very large private residence with more than 60…
Dancing with the Drunken Dragon
I’ve seen Jackie Chan wallowing in alcohol until he started to sway and stagger, unleashing his drunken Kung Fu strokes in “The Legend of the Drunken Master”. This time, it was a group of intoxicated men that were already dancing their way to Senado Square early in the morning around 9am, leaving us agape! The…
The Venice of Macau
Ma n’atu sole,cchiù bello, oje ne’‘O sole miosta ‘nfronte a te!‘O sole, ‘o sole miosta ‘nfronte a te!sta ‘nfronte a te! And we glided along the Grand Canal under the romantic blue sky with the gondolier serenading us in his tenor solo… We were immersed in the Venetian atmosphere; we were in Ven-… Venetian Macao!…
The Fast & the Furious: Macau Drift
Ever wonder why Macau is also known as the Monaco of Asia? Each year in November, Macau Grand Prix attracts hundreds of racing drivers and riders from around the world to compete at the Guia circuit, one of the world’s hardest street circuits with tight corners, long fast straights, few overtaking opportunities combined with other…
Dare you jump from Macau Tower?
Edison Chen did it here. Together with New Zealander AJ Hackett, both the celebrity and the Father of Bungy Jumping broke two Guinness World Records at Macau Tower –”The Highest Bungy Jump from a Building” and “World’s Highest Commercial Bungy Jump“. In fact, AJ Hackett designed the two record-breaking bungy jumps and other electrifying adventures…
Macao Science Center
The state-of-art center was built like a scroll being unrolled, suggesting the dissemination of knowledge and information to the public. With the aim in mind to create a friendly and pleasant environment for promoting the understanding of science and technology to the public, the Macao Foundation invited I.M Pei, a world renowned architect who has…
Rock your way to the City of Dreams
Macau is so small that it’s pretty difficult to point out the city on the map. Most of its area comprises of reclaimed land from the sea. In fact, Macau was once an island but land reclamation turned it into a peninsula that borders Zhuhai in mainland China. In the recent years, the area of…
