I'd get excited on Thursdays because I'm closer to meeting baby as I'm approaching to another week closer. Babycenter.com.my sends me weekly updates of my pregnancy on Thursdays. I'M WEEK 32 TODAY! About 8 more weeks to go! Will record about how I'm feeling later. As for now, I want to record the one and only holiday that we had in this pregnancy and probably the only holiday we have for the next two years. Lots of photos, especially photos with food in this post!
What is babymoon? Just found this on http://www.baby-moon.eu/questions-answers-about-going-on-a-babymoon/
A last vacation taken by expecting couples before the birth of their baby (preferably in the 2nd trimester). Treat yourself with a luxurious getaway before your baby arrives. Celebrate your pregnancy !
SJ and I were advised to go for a holiday in our 2nd trimester when we first found out that we were pregnant. Our architect, Cheryl advised us to take a nice holiday in my second trimester because we won't be able to travel much when the baby arrives. We wanted to go somewhere but couldn't decided on the destination; we were torn between Koh Samui, Thailand or Macau. Koh Samui would be a beach relaxing holiday where there's nothing much to do but just laze around and get massages, which would be really nice but also will be quite boring with nothing to do or EAT! The thought of going to a place with lots of tourists and food that would cost a lot and don't taste good was not very appealing. Macau on the other hand, is much busier and not as relaxing but food would definitely taste much better. So, finally we gave in to FOODS..
I was working as much as I could on the week before we flew to Macau. This initial 5 days 4 nights trip to Macau was then later included Hong Kong to eat! So, this babymoon trip was really an eating trip, but at a comfortable pace.
YAY! We're going for a holiday! :))))) A photo of us before our airplane takes off from KL.
I was 26 weeks pregnant.
SJ booked Venetian Hotel and it was one of the nicest hotel in Taipa Island, Macau.
This is the smallest room in this hotel! :S It was HUGE!
This hotel is so huge that when the receptionist gave us a map of the hotel, I thought it was the map of Macau. It was quite funny because almost every space available in this hotel were fitted with casino tables or machines. This is definitely the gambling heaven for gamblers.
Our dinner at a Portuguese restaurant on our first night in Macau
We hopped into a cab and told the cab driver that we wanted to go a famous crab porridge restaurant at Taipa village but the cab driver told us that he is worried that the restaurant might be closed due to a long weekend; 'Ching Ming' celebration, Good Friday and Easter Sunday public holidays. We somehow always picked the wrong timing for holidays; it was the worst snow-storm when we were in Europe for our honeymoon, we experience 9-level of typhoon when we were in Hong Kong in 2006, monsoon season when we were in Phuket in 2010 and now, long weekend holiday and raining season in Macau and Hong Kong. I still had a lot of fun because SJ is such a fun travel companion! ;)) So, our spirits were not dampened.
This is our first time trying Portuguese food and I think portugese likes tomatoes a lot. It was quite an experience and it was the most expensive dinner we had in this trip. We have decided to celebrate our 3rd wedding registration anniversary in this dinner because of those two reasons :P
The must haves for this trip : DESSERTS!!!
Finished our first night with my favourite chinese glutinous rice (tong yuen) dessert
Day 2: We took the free shuttle bus to Macau Peninsula, where they have most tourist attraction sites and much older casinos. We have learnt that we can practically go anywhere for free by catching these free shuttle buses from the hotels!
Our breakfast!! Super yummy Portugese eggtarts from Margaret's Cafe e Nata. We stumbled upon this tiny cafe in our first visit to Macau back in 2006 but this cafe has became really popular as we see this cafe being mentioned in many blogs. The queue was quite long to get these tarts. It opens daily from 8.30pm-6pm but closes on Wednesdays.
We walked to our next food destination for lunch! Took this photo on the way.
Loja Sopa Da Fita Cheong Kei. No idea what that means because they're in Portuguese but I think it meant Cheong Kei Restaurant
Squid balls. This was yummy. It was freshly fried!
Fish skin. It tasted better than it looks. Texture was chewy and we were told that fish skin is filled with good fats and collagen!
Wantan noodles. Nothing spectacular. We noticed that all wantan noodles in Hong Kong are almost the same. The best thing about wantan noodles in Hong Kong and Macau is the springy texture of the noodles.
Dry noodles with shrimp paste. Interesting and tasted pretty good.
This was recommended by the waitress. Hard boiled egg with herbal tea. It was just ok.
A must go/see/visit place in Macau: Ruins of St Paul's.
We took the opportunity to visit other hotels since we have free shuttle bus rides. This was taken at Galaxy Hotel, situated beside Venetian Hotel and it was sooooooooo nice!!! It was so beautifully decorated with bright lights and fountains that Venetian looked so old and boring compared to Galaxy. The best thing was Galaxy has free wi-fi and Venetian don't!
Tea-break for Day 2. We knew we had to go to this pork chop bun place in Taipa Village, which was located opposite of Galaxy Hotel. This place only opens from 3-6pm and it would have super long queues. We reached this shop at 6pm and they sold out of their usual buns. We had 'polo' (pineapple) bun and 'chan' (normal) bun with their same popular pork chops.
SJ was happy we made it on time, before 6pm to grab these pork chop buns! We were so late that the advantage of this was there was no queue!
Tea-break dessert on Day 2! I insisted that I want to try this recommended pudding near the pork chop bun shop.
Saw-dust pudding. The direct translation name of this pudding sounds quite weird. It's an ice-cream topped with crushed biscuit (something like digestive Marie biscuits) powder.
Yay! I love desserts especially ice-cream!! :))))
A picture by the fountain in Venetian Hotel before we leave for Hong Kong the next day
There was a baby fair the next day! Was tempted to go and have a look but we had such a long list of eating places to go that we had to let this go.
Dinner on Day 2: Crab porridge!
We ordered a vegetable with scallops dish. It was yummy!
Main attraction in this restaurant. I think all tables ordered this crab porridge.
It was wet and cold!
The day does not end until we had our Chinese desserts!!! We had Sweet Splendor at Galaxy Hotel because it was pouring outside and we had free wifi in Galaxy! ;)
SJ has soy bean with fried you tiao (breadsticks/chinese churros) and I had red bean soup.
I love going on holidays with SJ because we just eat all the time!!! :))))) I had such a fun time and I hope my baby won't be a glutton when he grows up. We walked a lot in this trip and there were times I felt a pain at my lower abdomen while walking, which we had to stop to take a break and watch people for a bit. Will blog on our Day 3 and 4 next! Can't believe that I'm in Week 32 already! Suddenly got into panic mode that there are so much things that are not done yet! Time to get new shoes for my final 2 months because my old good nice red shoes are wearing out.
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