On the second morning we wander to St Joseph church, it is a nice day, and the yellow church and big trees look especially pretty.
Then we walked to The Mandarin House 鄭家大屋, a Guangzhou style building built 150 years ago by a merchant family. Very well written history of that era and contribution of the family. It has been extended a couple of times to accommodate enlarged family hence the very long building. Each part has it own open courtyard in the middle for light and air circulation.
For lunch we took the bus to Coloane, Hac Sa Beach, to eat at Fernando. The restaurant has a small front room, but waling further in passed the kitchen, is a huge high ceiling room and outdoor area. It is a favourite of westerners in the 90’s for good food and relaxing atmosphere outside the hustle and bustle of the Peninsula.
Next took the bus to the Cunha street 官也街, the old area in Taipa. There are a lot of old style houses but the explosion of snack shops, cake shops and souvenir shops mean a lot of tourists and very congested, make it impossible to appreciate the style of the area.
Walked towards the main historical site, The Taipa Houses museum 龍環葡韻住宅式博物館, located in front of a wetland area. It is a row of houses built a 100 years ago to accommodate foreign civil servants. Now they are kept for different uses, one to show the housing style, the other an exhibition area, one a museum and the forth a restaurant, a good theme.
The other side of the wetland is a reclaimed area on which all the grand mega Casino hotel complex were built. There is a reclining lift behind the House Museum complex to get up to Tai Tam hill 大潭山, at the top is a park with a view.
Dinner at Portugalia at Cunha street area, it is in a renovated building with Portuguese blue theme and decent food.
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