Day 3: Macau Casinos

We lunched at this small restaurant. Till now, I still don't know if it's called '翅翅好'or '好翅翅'. My father was attracted by the 'claypot shark's fin for HK55' sign.

Abalone slices

Claypot shark's fin

椒盐多春鱼

Not sure what it was. It looked hard though.

Snow frog for dessert

After lunch, we went to Wynn, a beautiful casino. Actually, most of the casinos there are majestic looking and are simply ... well ... beautiful. The owners of these casinos must be filthy rich.

While waiting for my parents, I chanced upon this magnificent-looking ceiling in Wynn. It's intricately sculpted with the 12 Chinese zodiac creatures. Very impressive!

Every 30 minutes, the ceiling will open up to reveal a whole new world of visuals.

And eventually, a gigantic chandelier will move its way down to meet with a ...

Tree of Wealth

that rises from a hump below

After that, the tree will start to move in a circular motion with accompanying Chinese music. The melody sounded ancient but the lyric was modern. Sounded like a love song to me.

With that, the crowd started to throw money at the tree, in the hope of having some fortune luck rubbed off on them.

The whole thing lasts for 15 minutes. After the tree has finished its four rounds of being lighted with different colours signifying the four seasons, the chandelier and the tree will retreat to their 'homes', and the ceiling and the hump remain closed for another 15 minutes before they start their performance again.

My sister was keen to try bungee-jumping from the Macau tower. But when we reached there, we were told that advanced booking was required and it was already fully booked on that day.

Actually, I was relieved that it was fully booked because I was worried that my sister would really bungee-jump. I wouldn't know what to tell my parents if anything happened to her during the activity.

Now I know where Faye Wong got her song title from

Wynn

While waiting for my parents ...

The second casino my parents ventured into

Night falls

We went back to Yau Ma Tei for dinner at Yuan Kee at 11pm. By then, their roast goose was licked clean by other patrons. We had to settle for what they still had at that unearthly hour for dinner.

Roast duck （烧鸭）- HK80 (S$14.50) Yang Chow Fried Rice （扬州炒饭）-HK32 (S$6) Their ice kacang （红豆冰）

Braised pork (梅菜扣肉）- HK50 (S$9)

Claypot chicken (者者滑鸡煲) - HK45 (S$8)

Verdict:

We were not impressed with the food. Ordinary at best, and the claypot chicken recommended by the waiter as a 'specialty' wasn't as delectable as we'd imagined it to be. The roasted pigeon I had on my first day which happens to be from Yuan Kee looked better than it tasted as well.

Getting to Wynn:

Board the bus No. 3 at Macau Ferry Pier and alight when you see Wynn

The trip takes about 10 minutes.