Wong Chi Kei noodles breakfast, Macau

Add: Travessa de Cinco de Outubro 51, R/C, Macau
Tel: +853 2892 2271
Located at: Senado Square (The main square in Macau city)



Hmm, seems that this is The Breakfast Place and a real institution in Macau ... but we ended up walking away slightly dissapointed. Firstly, the service was haphazard, the waitress screwed up and forgot MOST of our orders! Secondly, the food was only average to just-better-then-poor! Best dish? The porridge!



Macau's main square aka Senado Square is choc'a'bloc with tourists ... and this is where Wong Chi Kei lies. Seems that there is a photo of Chris Patten (’Fat Pang’), the last British governor of Hong Kong, on one of the 3 floors. I didn't see this unfortunately, would have been interesting to see a photo of him enjoying a bowl of crab congee (which I didn't know to order as well!).



The Wong Chi Kei specialty (Egg noodles with dried shrimp roe on top) was rather dissapointing! I did enjoy the tasty soup which came with it.


Folks in Macau sure like Beef Brisket!


Side dishes ... Wantons and more beef!


The best dish ... H's Duck and Pork Ball Porridge. SLURrrrrrrrrrrrp ... so smooth and tasty!


A very strange dish ... meat ball with tamarind or something fruity like that.


Pork chop sandwich ... Macau'ans do this snack well!


Ice Cafe and Nai Char (Milk Tea) ... very popular local drinks. Good too!


Time to see more of Macau...

Oldham Hall reunion with some Macallan

After a few rounds of Baccarat at MGM Grand, we adjourned back to our Metropark Hotel room at Macau.

Hmm, what is Jack looking at?


Ronald called us from Croatia ... here he is on 'speakerphone'!


Here's the Macallan '12' I brought along from LCCT's Duty Free shop, RM$169. Pretty good value!

MGM Grand, Macau - Oldham Hall casino reunion!

After a yummy dinner at A Lorcha, we moved to MGM Grand. The first of many casinos we would 'visit' on this trip!

Wikipedia ... The MGM Grand Macau is a 35-storey, 600-room casino resort with approximate investment amount USD $1.25 billion in Macau which officially opened its doors on December 18th, 2007 at 10:50 p.m. local time, to thousands of guests eager to experience the burgeoning gaming destination's latest grand resort.
Under a subconcession approved by the Macau government, the project is owned and operated through a 50/50 partnership between MGM Mirage and Pansy Ho Chiu-king, the daughter of Stanley Ho. The subconcession is one of several examples of new construction following the end of the government-granted monopoly held for decades by Stanley Ho.
Phase One of casino floor accounts for 20,620 square metre spreading over two levels and wrapping around the Grande Praca; with 385 table games and 888 slot machines.
The property include a convention space of 1,452 square metre including The Grand Ballroom of 807 square metre for business meetings, social events and wedding; thirteen restaurants, and partner with Six Senses Spa to have a space of 2,720 square metre that includes 12 treatment areas.



Salvador Dali's 'Dalinian Dancer' at the entrance. Wow!


MGM Grand is one of the nicest casinos I reckon in Macau! The gaming area is most definitely my favourite, classy yet pleasant and not obnoxious!


Not a bad 'first' foray into a Casino (not withstanding one hand of Tai-Sai / Big-small at Genting a while ago!) I reckon ... hmmm :-)


Oldham Hall reunion ... 1990 - 2008 :-)

A Lorcha Portugese cuisine, Macau

Add: A Lorcha @ Rua do Almirante Sergio 289, Macau
Tel: +853 2831 3193
Opening hours: Wed-Mon 12:30pm-3:00pm , and 6:30pm-11:00pm
Tourist attractions nearby: The Maritime Museum and A-Ma Temple

We picked one of Macau's most famous restaurants, serving divine Portugese influenced cuisine, for our OLDHAM HALL REUNION dinner.


Best identified by its white-washed walls, an architectural feature repeated in the interior of the tiny restaurant with its arched, low ceiling. A Lorcha's name refers to a type of Portuguese boat, which is appropriate for a colony founded by seafaring explorers!


The waitress was very pleasant and service all night was good, she had to make recommendations for our large part of ten as the menu was truly unique and foreign to us!


Here's us eating together, 18 years after first meeting at Oldham Hall, Singapore!



One more shot ... Brothers in unity.


A simple wine for the night, it was rather good. We ordered another eventually!


A Lorcha is described as ...
Casual yet often filled with businesspeople, it offers feijoada, codfish in a cream sauce, chargrilled king prawns, clams prepared in garlic and olive oil, grilled lamb chops, baked minced beef potato pie, and other traditional dishes that are consistently good.
We agree!

Lovely clams cooked in 2 styles (one spicy, and one not) ...



Oh yes, this is the very warm bread which we enjoyed after a long day of travelling to Macau.


Some simple mixed veges ...


Delicious! Portugese-style Chicken Rice in a Casserole.


Another delicious rice dish ...


The Oxtail stew was so tender and full of flavour, we ordered it twice as well!


Cod fish ... firm to the bite and full of herbs and flavour. Served with a rather large spud (potato!).


Another casserole ... chicken?

Large prawns grilled with garlic ... Fresh and gorgeous!


Roast Lamb ... again beautifully marinated.

Other recommended dishes which we didn't get to savour that night, from my surfing of others write-ups of this restaurant ...

Caldo verde, Portuguese kale soup with slivers of savoury/spicy chourico sausages

Rissois de Camarao, which are crisp crescent-shaped parcels filled with shrimp in a creamy sauce

Pasteis de bacalhau ... No one makes better use of dried (and later re-hydrated) cod fish than the Portuguese, or should I say in this case, the Macanese.

Feijoada ... a distinctly Macanese-style pork knuckle, chourico, red beans & cabbage stew

Galinha a Africana or grilled “African” chicken, smothered with an intensely-flavoured, spicy gravy.