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The food in Macau - visual feast for your eyes only. Chinese cookies in special packaging Cooling Drink & Macau Iced Coffee Nice Beef Noodles in Macau Quail Bird roasted meat Roast meats & suckling pork slices Steamed Milk with Custard Zhu Hai Abalone Lunch Feast in Zhu Hai Durians in Zhu Hai Supermarket Baked Rice Portugese style lunch- rice with pork and fish Macau Portuguese Egg Tarts Super Nice Pork Chop Bun- Favourite (get it near from the store at St Paul's ruins in Macau)

Went to Zhu Hai (in China) and Macau. The two areas are close to each other. One can just walk across the immigration and you would reach the other side. Apparently, many Chinese just walk across to Macau from Zhu Hai to indugle in gambling in Macau. Do get ready to fill up many immigrations cards and have many chops on your passport if you like to travel both areas on the same day (which is possible). With the two territories so nearby, one can use Chinese Yuan, Hong Kong Dollar and Macau Patacas for their daily transactions. All the 3 currencies are equivalent in value to each other. You can use PutongHua (Mandarin), Portuguese, English or Cantonese (Chinese dialect) to speak to the locals there. There are at least 28 casinos in Macau from the grand outfit like Venetian Macau to the small gambling complex. With the casinos, there exists almost side by side the pawn shops where people pawn away their valuables to gamble. I am more interested in the cultural aspects of the trip,