The ex Portuguese colony: Macau

While in Hong Kong we took a one day trip to Macau! After 1 hour in the catamaran we arrived to the emigration counter.... and waited 1 hour!!! because there was this huge queue of Mainlanders (Chinese) getting into Macau. Guess for what ? 

Unfortunately not for the Portuguese Egg tarts! eheehee... Gambling! 

Portuguese is indeed the second language... in all the written official documents... but not really spoken :(

The first casino, Grand Lisboa

The Portuguese influence, 

What is this ? Pork Chop Bun !??! no no no! we call it Bifana!!! yummy Bifana!!

Calçada Portuguesa!!!

Luis de Camões,

O quiosque!! 

We had a wonderful tour guide! Mr. Carvalhal :) 

He took us to a place where we had an amazing Squid Rice!!! Arroz de Polvo!!!

Amazing views!

The buildings in the back are all the casinos, 

The casino madness! buses and buses of Chinese people going there to spend all their money! yes because the money they win... they spend it in all the incredible huge malls that cover the ground around the casinos!

The Venetian! one of the biggest casinos in Macau,

The City of dreams,

Hong Kong Markets!! and Geek Alert!

Wondering around Hong Kong streets was definitely our favorite activity! there is always so much life!! And the best are the street markets you encounter!

-The first market,

So many to choose from and so many colors!! 

-The flower market, 

You can buy flowers or a bouquet of stuff animals !?!? :)

-The bird market, 

Here you can buy some live bugs for your birds :)

They have as well lovely porcelain water containers! 

One market we could not miss out! was the Golden Computer center! where you can find every single electronic device! 

This place is huge!!!!! 

you can find your angry birds memory sticks here!

and get as well your super bling mobile covers!

Only in Hong Kong!!!

The day the Giant Buddha was hiding!

One of Hong Kong´s main attraction is to see the Giant Buddha in the Po Lin Monastery. We were not very lucky with the weather! it was raining a lot! and the cable car ride until the top of the mountain included a lot of emotion and bouncing back and forward :P

This was the first time the weather failed us! :P rain, colddddd!!! but we didn´t gave up to see Giant Buddha!

The happy entrance gate! 

Time to get the legs working! 

The best shot I could get! with some help from the dramatic mode of the camera :) one of our favorite

Some impressive statues,

We found this cute statue,

On the way back in the cable car we had zero visibility! and a lot of wind.. quite a spooky ride down!

Antonio not very happy about being soaking wet and super cold :P

Nothing that a great Hong Kong dinner wouldn´t fix :)

yummy dumplings!!! can improve anyone's spirit! 

Hong Kong Food.. just amazing!

If you´ve been following our blog for a while you´ve noticed we are major foodies!!! one of the best treats in this trip is to have the chance to taste the amazing local food of each country! If you like food... Hong Kong is heaven!! so many flavors and smells! ahhhh we miss you Hong Kong!!

Pumpkin duck! you have some real competition for our number 1 best food we had so far in this trip!! And your competition comes from Hong Kong! this amazing dumplings place.... Thet pork barbecue bun is just heavenly!

Yummy shrimp and pork dumplings, 

Look at this beauties, 

This gelo cube was dessert, with a flavor quite difficult to explain... it was sweet with tea herbs and it was sooo fresh!

This place was sooo good that had an extensive wall of fame,

Thank you Ekitzel for taking us to this amazing food feast!

After this amazing meal we had some desert! 

ice cream!!! 

Another Hong Kong delicacy is the cripy pork with mustard,

In Hong Kong is very common to see restaurants with fish tanks, so the customer can select the fish and be sure is fresh! 

In your table you always have the serving chopsticks and your eating chopsticks,

Is very common in Hong Kong to share a table with other people when the restaurant is crowded, this were our neighbors... both checking their emails! :P btw Hong Kong people are extremely high tech! they change so fast their mobile that there is plenty of second hand with some interesting deals.