Macau trip

The reception area in The Grand Lisboa Hotel

The night view in Senado Square. The lanterns are replicas of fruits

Wynn Hotel Rotunda 'Prosperous tree'- an indoor performance round the clock

The ruins of St. Paul Church. Slinging is way more convenient than stroller

This is the open viewing deck of Macau Tower. My sons esp younger one didn't seem to notice the height from the plexi-glass base. I couldn't even go near and look down for a second.

Inside A-ma temple

Night scene of Lisboa Hotel and behind it is Grand Lisboa


My DS in front of Performance fountain in Wynn Hotel

In front of 猪扒包 stall in Taipa. We had this as late lunch right after we landed.

This is the pork fillet burger - a signature snack of Macau

Di di is having his 'in-flight lunch'...

My proud 哥哥 and 爸爸 enjoying their bird's view scenery of Macau

Before I could finished this post, my partner discovered something unpleasant regarding our cloth diaper. It is found that a foreign brand 'Hatio' cloth diaper that is manufactured by the same manufacturer has the washing label bearing our Moms & Tots website address. This is solely due to the negligence of the manufacturer. Therefore, I would like to clarify that Hatio is not part of Moms & Tots Store and our product is different from Hatio in terms of design, quality and material used.

As promised to update you all on cloth diapering my baby while travelling, well, here you are. My destination this time was Macau a.k.a. Las Vegas of the east. Macau indeed lives up to its' name - it's night scene is full of colours from the flashes of neon lights on all the casinos and hotels. Every casino especially the new ones has its' distinctive, entertaining and thematic interior and exterior designs. For example Wynn, the hotel that we were staying has a millions of dollars performance musical fountain outside and 'Rotunda - Prosperous Tree' (checkout Youtube to know further). We also visited Grand Lisboa Hotel Lobby and it's an eye opening experience with huge stone sculptures, Stanley Ho's bronze portrait sculpture, a national treasure bronze sculpture of a horse head and lots of others priceless oriental art pieces. What really attracts me is it's building's structure. Even my younger son was in awe to see the glittery and colorful night scenes.

We didnt go lots of places but managed to visit the famous "妈 祖" A Ma temple that faces Zhu Hai 珠 海- China, the ruins of St. Pauls, Macau Tower, The Venetian Hotel and its' shopping mall (there's not much to shop although supposedly to be the largest shopping mall in Macau). We tasted the infamous chinese restaurant 黄枝纪 in Senado Square that serves local chinese food. The food was yummy but service did not tally with the delicious food. In the square itself, there is a coffee shop that serves authentic steamed milk (炖奶), chinese version of milkshakes with lots of choices of mixture e.g. coconut milk, chinese almonds杏仁, papaya etc minus the ice-cream. It's surely healthier and lighter in taste. We ate Portugese egg tart (you can buy it everywhere) almost everyday but there is a shop near Macau Police Academy School that sells extra yummy egg tart and other pastries. We 'ta pau' the egg tarts back to Malaysia as they can last for several days in the fridge. All you need is a toaster to crisp up the crust....still have the drooling effect thinking of it. Besides that pork fillet burger, egg rolls，bbq dried meat 肉干, almond cookies, 'luk luk' standup steamboat are some of the street foods you must try.

The highlight of this trip was my hubby and my elder son went for skywalking around the Macau Tower. My hubby couldnt sum up his courage for bungy jump and so he opted for the skywalk. I didnt expect my son agreed to join his father and I am proud of his courage for his age. I guess children his age have less height phobia than adults (I am one of them). As for my mission to cloth diaper my baby son throughout the trip, sad to say I failed. Overall, I would say Macau is a less suitable holiday destination for baby because most of the eateries (including shopping mall's food court) don't provide baby chair, the shopping mall we went known as the biggest shopping mall in Macau doesn't even have baby changing room. Overall, we had a pleasant trip that feasted both our eyesight and palate.

I hope to blog about my top passion - baking very soon since there is no holiday plan in near future. So, look out for my collection of best kept recipes in town....