Macau Holiday : VENETIAN MACAO

Still continue with my Hongkong-Macau Holiday Story. My 3rd day Holiday destination is Macau! This is my first time in Macau so I was really excited.

Started my day with a very big breakfast at Kai Kee Restaurant located in the Tsim Sha Tsui Area. Since morning Kai Kee always packed with people, then I ordered the famous Spicy Minced Pork & Dry Scallop Mix with Noodles and my friend ordered Beef with Macaroni in Tomato Soup.

Ok, start with my friend's ordered food Beef with Macaroni in Tomato Soup. This food is the one of the most popular food in Hongkong, especially for breakfast menu. The Tomato soup was really fresh and the macaroni was blended well with the soup. I thought the tomato soup will be very sour, but not at all, it was fresh and delicious. The soup is served with toast bun, scramble eggs and Ham. Perfect for breakfast!

Price: 48HKD.

And mine was Spicy Minced Pork & Dry Scallop Mix with Noodles. I'm quite person whose makes sure I always get my breakfast, but not a person with a big stomach. When the food came out I pretty shock with the quantity of the food, because that was a lot. It was served with soup and when I tried that I was very overwhelmed with the taste. The Minced Pork was really great and really match well with my taste. Sweet, sour, and salty, every taste was complete and blend very well. I enjoy the noodles because the texture was perfect, not too hard, but not too soft as well. It was very delicious, but unfortunately my stomach too full to eat everything! But it was my favorite food since I arrived at Hongkong!

Price: 47HKD.

Kai Kee Restaurant

27-33 Kimberley Rd, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hongkong

After breakfast, I directly went to China Ferry Terminal to take my boat to Macau. I already booked my round trip ticket by online and I use a turbo jet boat to my trip.

Please check this link to more information about Turbojet and for reserving the ticket.

https://www.turbojet.com.hk/en/

I reserved tickets for Kowloon - Mac (outer) and Mac (outer) - Kowloon for 248HKD. If your departure place from Kowloon, you need to go China Ferry Terminal.

China Ferry Terminal

Address: China, Hong Kong City, 33 Canton Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong (1/F Departure Hall / 2/F Arrival Hall)

After through ticket-checking gate, I need to pass the immigration (so don't forget to bring your passport and ID card), after immigration then I waited to depart. I depart on 12.00 Hongkong Time. After waiting about 15 minutes, finally time to depart!

Personally, I feel really comfortable in the boat. The boat was so clean and comfortable, we get our own seat number so doesn't need to rush. We take a boat for around 1 hour until we arrived in Macau. After doing with immigration thing, I'm so ready to enjoy Macau. And my first destination was The famous Venetian Macao.

If you want to go Venetian Macao, you can use the free shuttle bus by Venetian Macao which ready in Ferry Pier. I have taken that bus to go there. On my way there, I passed the Macau Tower and Guan Yin Statue. And finally, I arrived at the Venetian Macao! Excited.

But before take a walk at the Venetian Macao, time to fill my belly with the famous dumpling restaurant inside of the Venetian Macao. The restaurant called Lei Garden. The Lei Garden restaurant is the Chinese food restaurant which is famous with their dumplings! So, without doubt we ordered Crusty Baked B.B.Q Pork Bun, Shrimp Dumpling, Glutinous Dumpling with Dice Pork, Steamed Siew Mai with Fish Roe, Shanghai style Minced Pork Dumpling, and Steamed Pork Ribs with Rice Noodle.

Crusty Baked B.B.Q Pork Bun was great! It was crunchy outside but so tender inside, not forget to mention the fantastic taste of the BBQ style pork.

Glutinous Dumpling with Dice Pork was great, especially the dice pork inside of the dumpling. The sweet taste of the dumpling skin and the saltiness of the dice pork was blended well.

Shrimp Dumpling (Hakau) has been always my favorite. It was fresh and delicious. The skin of the dumpling and shrimp inside was very tasty. Perfect!

Steamed Siew Mai with Fish Roe was my other favorite! Siew Mai is, never will be wrong right? And the fish roe was so refreshing, delicious!

To be honest, I really worship Shanghai Style Minced Pork Dumpling (Xiaolongbao) since the first time I ate that at Shanghai. The soup inside of the dumpling was incredible, magnificent, and I can't describe that with words!

Steamed Pork Ribs with Rice Noodle was so unique for me, it was my first time eat foods with kind of that style. It was great and match with my salty tongue.

I would like to recommend the Lei Garden Restaurant if you dumpling lover! The food was outstanding and the price average around 29-50HKD for the dumplings!

Lei Garden Venetian Macao

Shop 2130 Grand Canal Shoppes Venetian Macao Resort Hotel, Estrada da Baia de N.Senhora da Esperanca, s/n, Taipa, Macau

Tel: +853 2882 8689

Opening Hours: 11:30 - 15:00 / 18:00 - 23:00

Website: http://www.leigarden.hk/en/

Beautiful and glamorous Macau, that is one thing I think about as soon as I arrived at the Venetian Macao.

The Venetian Macao is a luxury hotel and casino resort in Macau owned by the American Las Vegas Sands company. The Venetian is a 39-story, casino hotel on the Cotai Strip in Macau. The 10,500,000-square-foot (980,000 m2) Venetian Macao is modeled on its sister casino resort The Venetian Las Vegas, and is the seventh-largest building in the world by floor area. The Venetian Macao is also the largest casino in the world, and the largest single structure hotel building in Asia.

After eating, time to take a walk in Venetian Macao. Inside of Venetian Macao there is an area called The Cotai Arena (formerly known as the Venetian Arena) is an indoor arena, opened in 2007 with a seating capacity of 15,000. It hosts sporting events such as basketball, tennis, and boxing, as well as concerts and international televised awards shows.

I truly love with the Venetian hand-made river, they made the mall ceiling sky-look-a-like complete with beautiful clouds. It was beautiful and feel like taking a walk at outdoor area instead indoor. While taking a walk along with the river, we can hear the boat rower sing a song to entertain the boat passengers. It was beautiful!

And Venetian Macao is the best places for shopping! Sands Shoppes is The largest indoor shopping mall in Macau, Sands Shoppes offers an amazing retail experience at more than 850 duty free outlets. Whether you are looking for the latest seasonal trends, or collections from the finest designers, Sands Shoppes has you covered.

I was so excited with shopping and stopped by Victoria's Secret Store to buy some perfume there. Very loving!

Venetian Macao

Estrada da Baía de N. Senhora da Esperança, s/n, Taipa, Macao SAR, P.R. China

More information regarding transport, accommodation, reservation: https://www.venetianmacao.com/macau-guide/practical-information.html

I had great impression for Venetian Macao, it was great place for me. And if I go to Macau again next time, Venetian Macao definitely would be my destination list.

You can check my Hongkong-Macau holiday story here:

Hongkong Holiday: Victoria Peak

Hongkong Holiday: Disneyland Part 1

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Hongkong Holiday : Victoria Peak

I just came back from my 4 days 3 nights holiday at Hongkong - Macau. So I want to take you all to my holiday stories! And the story begins...

Departures from Korea around 08.00 o'clock in the morning. I arrived at Hongkong on 11.00 Hongkong time, rush into the Immigration and take my baggage.

After done with everything, I bought MTR Airport Express Ticket to Kowloon (my hotel was around the Tsim Sha Tsui area). You can buy the MTR Airport Express ticket at the Counter Train Ticket, you can find the counter right after you passed the exit door of the arrival gate.

The counter has a light board with "Train Ticket to City." The Airport Express MTR will be stopped at the 3 stations, which are Tsing Yi, Kowloon and Hongkong. You can pick the destination you as the place you need to go. In my case, I bought one SINGLE JOURNEY ticket to Kowloon. With price 90HKD.

After buying my ticket I went to wifi portable rental counter to pick up my wifi portable. I already booked and payed the rent cost with the internet since I am still in Korea. You can check the price and requirements in this website https://www.klook.com/activity/660-hong-kong-pocket-wifi-device/?fp_count=1.

Done with the wifi portable matter, I rushed to the Airport Express MTR Station to ride my train to the city. Just follow the sign board in the airport, the station easier to find. FYI, the train always arrived every 10 minutes, so you don't need to worry and enjoy your trip. And it takes around 30 minutes until I arrived at the Kowloon Station and take taxi to go to Tsim Sha Tsui area. And I just met the cutest taxi driver ever, I just saw him check the Hongkong map with very big magnifying glass I have ever seen before!

Arrived at my Hotel, check-in and meet my Hongkong friend, Eunice (you can know her more, click her blog on here) at the Tsim Sha Tsui Station. Because I really hungry, I need "snack time" before continuing my Journey. And right in the front of my hotel, I found Classic Pan-fried Buns cafe, then I ordered the Signature Pan-fried Buns (4 pcs)! And when I started to bite that, WOW the soup in the inside of bun crazily spurted everywhere almost shoot my friend's clothes. And my friend just told me to bite the bun skins with a small bite, then drink the soup and eat the meat inside. AHA! I just clueless with how to eat this bun, but this bun absolutely tasty, especially with the soup! The soup was salty and full of spice, great as the special about the Chinese Food taste. The meat inside was soft and delicious, perfect to snack-time.

Price: 28HKD / 4 pcs

How to find the store:

Cheung Hing Kee Shanghai Pan-Fried Buns Lock Road

Hongkong 9-52 Lock Road.

And then after filling my stomach with that tasty Buns, I and a friend walk directly to the Star Ferry Pier to take a boat to the Hongkong Island because we are going to go The Peak! Okay, this is what you need to do when you want to go The Peak.

First, go to Star Ferry Pier and buy the boat ticket, in my case I bought a one-way ticket with price 2.50HKD, you just need to find a ticket machine in the front of the entrance gate, after buying the ticket you just need to waiting for your time to take the boat. They operated from 06.30AM to 11.30PM Hongkong Time with frequent of arrival 6-10 minutes.

I really love to enjoy the view from the boat, it was very beautiful, I really enjoy the boat ride, sometimes I just want to put down my phone and forget every problem I have and just enjoy the view. The boat ride just takes around 10 minutes and I arrived at the Central Pier.

After arriving at Central Pier, we take a 2 stories bus to go Peak Tower. The bus number was 15B and the cost was 20HKD. After around 10 minutes ride the bus, finally the bus comes into the uphill road with a very magnificent view of Hongkong City until finally we arrived at The Peak Galleria.

That time was a holiday so there are a lot of people there. If you want to enjoy the view, you can go straight to The Peak Tower, which located on the highest floor of the Peak Galleria. The Peak Tower is located at an elevation of 396 m, 156 m below the summit of Victoria Peak. Because the architects sought a design which would be prominent on the skyline, but would not interrupt the natural line of the hills, they chose a site in a dip along the line of the hills and restricted the tower's height to 428 m above sea level. And just for your information, The Madame Tussauds is located here.

The Peak Galleria.

Address: 118 Peak Road.

For more information or ticket reservation, please click this link http://www.thepeak.com.hk/en

And time to eat!!! Very hungry, we directly to go a Chinese restaurant called Lu Fen and ordered some dim sum! We ordered Barbecued Pork Bun, Steam Rice Roll with Shrimp, Deep Fried Meshed Taro, and Jasmine Tea.

Barbecued Pork Bun never be wrong right? The warm and soft of the bun was perfectly matched with the Barbecued Pork inside of the bun.

Price: 38HKD

Steam Rice Roll with Shrimp was perfectly good! I really missed the food with steam rice style, which a little bit hard to find at Korea, the shrimp inside was wonderful as well.

Price: 55HKD

Deep Fried Meshed Taro! I really often eat this kind of Deep Fried dim sum, but this is the first time for Taro. Clearly, this food was very good and worth to try.

Price: 36HKD

Lu Feng Restaurant.

128 Peak Rd, The Peak Shop 3A-B, Level 2&3, The Peak Tower, Hongkong.

www.epicurean.com.hk

After full, we ready to do hiking at Victoria Peak, start easy but end exhausted but fun. You know the good things about hiking is when you see the magnificent view from the peak. Hongkong is the one of beautiful city with a really great view there.

Done with hiking we back to The Peak Galleria with very thirsty throat. So we rushed to order a bubble tea. And now time to go back to the Central Pier to take our boat back to Shim Sha Tsui.

Still use the same bus with number 15B, I and a friend sat on the second floor of the bus. The view was great once again but sit on the second floor of the bus not my favorite thing. And finally, we arrived at the Central Pier and once again take the boat to come back to Star Ferry Pier and eat dinner at Tsim Sha Tsui area.

And for dinner, we went to a restaurant called Tam Jai and ordered Yunnan Noodle, Minced Pork, and Bandit Chicken Wing.

Yunnan Noodle was tasty and delicious. The soft noodle and salty soup made perfect combination. But for me, the volume of the noodle was very big.

Price: 31HKD

Minced Pork was great and full of spices. And matched well with my salty tongue.

Price: 5HKD

And the greatest Bandit Chicken Wing. I think this was the best chicken wing I ever had! I really love the taste because of the fullness of spices. Wonderful and two thumbs up!

Price: 22HKD / 3pcs

Tam Jai Restaurant.

1 Humphreys Avenue Hongkong.

After dinner, my feet were very weak after morning flight and hiking. And the next day is Disneyland! So for charger my energy, come back to my hotel, unpacking, take a shower and sleep!!!

And my first day in Hongkong done!

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