Day 4: Wong Chi Kei Noodle & Congee House 黃枝記, Macau

Our 2nd day at Macau:  We decided to walk over to Ruins of St Paul's from our hotel (Hotel Sofitel) in the morning.  It is not very far as you can see here, from our hotel room's window, we could actually see the building.

 Another nice view from the our hotel room.

The Senado Square

 I had already decided where to have our lunch - Wong Chi Kei Noodle & Congee House.  It is very easy to find this restaurant, just walk straight here along the Senado Square and you should be able to spot Wong Chi Kei quite easily, on the left, opposite McDonald.  We reached here around 11am before the queue started forming.

 I ordered a cup of hot honey lemon to smoothen my throat as I was still having a very bad cough.

This time round, I really wanted to try their shrimp roe noodle.  It was definitely not a wrong order.

蝦子撈麵 "Har Zi Lo Meen"

 I like this better than the one I had at Mak's Noodle.  At Mak's, I need to add a lot of oyster sauce to the noodle as it was quite dry.  Here, I felt that the noodle was done just right and very springy.

 I ordered a bowl of dumpling soup too.  The dumpling was meaty.

 This durian mascot posed for me, so cute!

 The weather was also extremely hot and I was not feeling quite well,  I decided to stay inside this air-conditioned shop - MOD Design Store while my hubby made his way up to the cathedral.  I believe this is a relatively new design shop as it was not here 3 years back when I made my solo trip here.  It is worth going in to take a look at the interesting and creative products that are sold in this store.  You may also consider buying some souvenirs back from here.

 Ruins of St Paul's - The most famous landmark in Macau.

After this, we walked back to our hotel and we visited the Michael Jackson's Museum located within our hotel before catching the ferry back to Hong Kong island.

Seng Cheong Crab Porridge 诚昌水蟹粥 @ Macau

We passed by this restaurant that specialized in Crab Porridge at Rua do Cunha (Old Taipa village) and decided to give it a try.  For two of us, the staff told us that the "Small" portion would be sufficient.

Guess what is this?  

Fried Bull Frogs' Legs!!!  Very meaty and it was really like eating fried chicken!

Finally tried the famous Pork Chop Bun at Macau - Tai Lei Loi Kei!

We were famished by the time we checked-in to our hotel and thus, we took a cab from our hotel - Hotel Sofitel to Taipa Village.  Our cab fare cost around MOP 80.  For the rest of the trip, after we were more familiar with the place, we found out that we could make use of the various free shuttles from the bigger hotels to hop from one place to another.  Thus, for the rest of the trips in Macau, we didn't spend any more money on transport.  :)

From some of the blogs that I had read prior to the trip, some mentioned that the shop will only be open at 3pm and by 2.30pm, the queue will start forming.  Thus, I anticipated that there would be a long queue outside the shop as we reached around 2.40pm.  However, to our (pleasant) surprise, there was no queue at all and we could just step into the shop to buy our pork chop bun!

 

 There is no more outdoor seating with proper tables and chairs now and thus, we need to have it take-away and enjoyed eating the buns under the shades of the big trees outside.  The weather was very hot when we were there and I was perspiring like mad even though I was seated under the shade.  

 The pork chop bun was freshly-made here and very tasty.  The meat was well marinated and tender.

 This is the original shop of Tai Lei Loi Kei.  Now, probably because they had opened up 2 more branches at Venetian and near Ruins of St Paul in recent years, both which are more accessible, explains that there are lesser crowd at the original shop now.  However, I read that the standard of the other 2 branches are not as good so maybe you would want to try out the the pork chop bun at this original location.

Tai Lei Loi Kei

No.18, Largo Gov. Tamagnini Barbosa, 

Vila de Taipa, Macau