Angela's Cafe @ New Yaohan, Macau

Yesterday, I ventured out of the house and join the Easter holiday crowd in Macau.
Mum and I went for lunch at our fav sandwich place, Angela's Cafe.

To find the cafe, just head towards the only departmental store in the whole of Macau.

Yup, you heard right.

The New Yaohan is the only shopping complex in Macau and strategically located in the city centre.

As usual, we chose to make our own sandwich.

Huge isn't it? My Nokia E71 looks like a mini next to the croissant. Mum and I always share a sandwich. There's no way I can eat the whole thing by myself.

Layers of yummyness with chips on the side

Oppss...and it gets a little messy trying to eat it =P

Since it's the Easter holiday weekend, we then took a walk to St. Paul's Ruin to check out the crowd. I haven't seen so many people at the ruins for some time now.

The weather these few days were great.

The temperature is hovering around 19 - 24 degrees Celsius.

No rain, just gentle breeze and a burst of sunshine now and then.

Now is really the best time to visit Macau (before all the typhoon arrive in summer)

To enjoy Macau, it requires quite a lot of walking (I'm not kidding)

And in this weather, it's like walking with air-con following your every step.

It's so relaxing, and best of all...no sweat!

Oh...and finally I could store away my winter jackets and bring out my fav shorts.

And sunglasses =P

If anyone is planning to visit Macau, come now when the weather is fantastic.

Check out the Macau Tourism website http://www.macautourism.gov.mo/

180° Lounge & Grill @ Macau Tower, Macau

Thank you everyone for your concern and well wishes.
I'm doing okay now =D
Just gotta be careful not to have a recurrence.



I've been in and out of Macau for some time now.
But somehow, I've never visited the Macau Tower.

So...after I got out of the hospital, Eric and I decided to watch a movie.
It's my first time watching a movie in Macau actually.
And the cinema is located at the famed Macau Tower.
The funny thing about this cinema is....

...it has only ONE screen.
Meaning at any ONE time, there's only ONE movie showing.
And it was pretty empty.
I've got a feeling Macanese are not really into the cinema scene like us in KL.
They'll prob think Malaysians are nuts as we have like 10 movies screening at the same time, at the same place!

I was excited to make my virgin visit to Macau Tower.
For a tourist attraction, it was pretty boring.
Maybe 'cause we were there at night...it was quite deserted.
It had a Toys R Us store but it closes at 8pm O_o
As usual, the one thing you have everywhere in Macau is SASA the store and slot machines.
Unsurprisingly, you can find those at the Macau Tower as well.
I think there's more people at the slot machines than in the cinema!

Since The Fast & The Furious 4 only starts at 9.30pm, we ended up having dinner with Samuele at the 180° Lounge & Grill.

Located at the 59th Floor of the Macau Tower if I'm not mistaken.
When we got there...it took my breath away.

The view from the restaurant was fantastic.

And we have the whole restaurant to ourselves!

Some decor on the walls that feels out of place.

Wines were selling at 50% off. Obviously I can't have any since I just got out of the hospital.

Bread to start our dinner with...too hard for my liking though

My lobster soup was creamy and too salty

Eric's Ceasar salad...he said it's hard to make a bad Ceasar...so I guess it was pretty okay

Eric's sirloin steak...nothing special lar in my opinion

Mashed potatoes came in a bowl...with no sauce. We agreed it looks like yucky baby food

My linguine with seafood was a big disappointment. Few pieces of seafood tossed with bland linguine. Just a little hint of tomato paste and just plain tasteless. I had the waiter add lots of pepper into it to make it edible.

180° Lounge & Grill sells itself as a fine dining experience.

I think they're delusional.

The service left a lot to be desired as well.

Granted, the waiters spoke English but what came out of their mouth is kinda unbelievable.

They have a very small menu so we asked what's so famous about their "Famous 180° Burger"

The answer was "Maybe it's the beef"

Okay...so maybe it's the beef -_-

And there was the mistake of serving vinegar to Samuele for his sushi and sashimi platter instead of soy sauce.

Bad service and bad expensive food.

The only saving grace was it's location.

Nothing could beat it's view in Macau.

Oh...and the movie was superb!

Ain't an April's Fool Joke

I haven't been blogging for some time now.
There's a couple of reasons why.

Firstly, we took a short trip to Guangzhou.
And secondly, I was admitted into the Kiang Wu hospital in Macau.
On April's Fool Day -_-

It was about 4am when the right side of my body started to hurt.
I was burning up with a fever as well.
Then I woke Eric up.
He probably thought it was an April's Fool joke 'cause he didn't look really alarmed at first.
Eventhough he wanted to take me to the hospital then, I refused.
Stupid of me.
Okay...I was a fool.
'Cause I tried to sleep and by 8am, I couldn't even stand up straight anymore.
Then we went to the hospital.
The stupid cab we hailed even took his own sweet time to get there.

Needless to say, I ended up in the emergency ward.
I was shivering so badly eventhough I wore leggings under my jeans, long sleeve tee with a long winter jacket, thick socks and was covered with the hospital's thick blanket.

Some urine test, blood test & ultrasound later, I was diagnosed with a kidney infection.
Obviously I had to be warded.
And started a marathon of drips.

That's my patient tag. It's so funny, no one in the hospital addressed me by my name Tracy. Not the nurse, not the doc & not even the person who delivered my food. They will always ask me what's my name instead. Made me feel as if they're checking if I somehow had amnesia as well!

My left hand with the needle having a rest after bottles of drips. It's bandaged up like this all ready for the next bottle.

As each needle can only be used for 3 days, my right hand then got the honour. I was still pretty mobile and not too uncomfortable when the needle was is my left hand. But when it was inserted at this angle in my right hand, it hurts all the time and there was no way I could relax my hand. Not too mention it was tedious going to the toilet.

View from my bed.

In this Macau's hospital, receipts, consent form, test results & even doctor's name are all given in Chinese. We have to request for all the above to be in English.

Even paying a little extra for it to be translated.

The nurses only converses in Cantonese.

I'm lucky the Doctors that came for consultation spoke English, though not so fluently, I'm still glad they could!

Staying in the hospital was so boring.

The nurses check up on you all the time as well.

Especially at night, to make sure you're in bed and not sneaking around.

I was even reminded to go to sleep when they caught me watching tv at 1am =P

Despite the language barrier (it's not like ordering food where you don't have to really understand what the waitress is saying, in the hospital, it's very very important to know exactly what the Doc is saying), the name comedy & curfew, all the nurses, Docs and even helpers are really friendly.

They tried their best to accommodate me and my half baked Cantonese and illiteracy in reading Chinese.

My 1st time being a hospital in-patient. Definitely memorable.

And I'm bloody(no pun intended) glad to be recovering.

P.s : Pics in this post was taken using my new sexy Nokia E71