Be a few hours' tourist

Mandarin House
S. Lourenço Church
Fountain Square
S.Paul's Ruins
Mountain Forte
Shopping Chinese Bakeries and Candies


Just came back from the trip, as F is still in town, called her to check her schedule to meet.

She told me her mother-in-law and D would like to spend some more time in HK, thus they are leaving to HK tomorrow ( they are flying back to Canada on Friday).

Therefore, we made the time to see today, and she also tried to finish her program of sightseeing and shopping at the same time.

She said that the whole week rained a lot in Macau, except Friday. Fortunately, today is a fine day, a little bit chilly ( and windy when we were in the Mountain Forte), I can also see the light blue sky, with a little bit of sunshine, which I longed for long time.

As today is Saturday, the streets ( in certain down town area) are full of tourists, as usual.

We first stopped by the Mandarine House. They went to the place the other day, but it is closed during Wednesday and Thursday, thus she wanted to come back to see the house inside.

It is my first time to go in, I am quite amazed that it is a beautiful, spacious and quiet place (one thing I think it is a little bit weird is that it broadcasts soft western classical music, which I think they should find some nice chinese music instead ).

Actually, there were not many visitors, most of them were foreigners, and people from HK. It is quite a big contrast with th S. Paul's Ruins area.

Interesting enough, F met her old friend over there, he is a Macau citizen but would like to take some nice pictures there - sometimes Macau is small, it is easy to meet people in certain places.

As we were in hurry, we could not afford the time to listen to the guide tour, I would definitely go back again, and I believe the whole renovation has not been finished yet. It is worth to spend some time to know this place.

After that, F wanted to buy a coke for D, and the little shop opposite the tourist spot asked for 8 pataces ( the owner didn't put the price and asked the customers to have self-service, only the last minute the customers know the actual price). We concluded that it over-charged a lot, as most of the places charges 5, while supermarket sells only 3.5 - This should not be the way of doing business for this little shop, we were a little bit disappointed.

Along the road to the other places, everywhere is full of people, we were not quite used to it.

F understood why I told her I would like to stay home on weekends, because the streets are for the visitors.

At the end of afternoon, they needed to buy some cookies and candies back to Canada, we stopped by two shops - the most famous two, while they are always situated nearby or opposite the street.

Personally, I can't distinguish any great difference of the food from these two shops, but one shop has made a lot of advertising, and it successfully attracted many tourists to buy.

As one observes what kind of things the tourists carry in the down town area, it is easy to conclude which bakery shop is more famous.

It ended up that F bought in the crowded shop and D bought in another shop, which is less crowded and it accepts credit card!!