This is the entrance to A-Ma temple. Man, it was so hot.
A
gift shop. Shopkeepers are pretty aggressive over there. You can't appear to be too interested. When I was looking for jade in
Hong Kong, one of the sellers grabbed my arm and put a bracelet on, then tried to cut the tags off and charge me. I didn't even like the thing!
There were lots of people there. Mostly Chinese. It seemed like most of the Westerners spent their time in the casinos.
There were lots of little buildings. I think this one was the main one.
It's built on a little hillside, so you have to do some climbing to see everything. I didn't mind though. The higher up you get, the more breeze there is. Did I mention it was hot?
One of the small shrines.
These are incense coils. Some of them have trays under to catch the ash (on the right side), but I stupidly stood under some that didn't. I got ashed! It hurt a little.
A-Ma is the goddess of the sea and seafarers. This little boat was inside the main temple.
These are fortunes. In Japan, you normally just get a piece of paper. These were so pretty and they sounded like little bells or
windchimes.
A famous restaurant in
Macau. We went here for lunch after the temple. It was really good. I had some kind of chicken dish cooked with
turmeric and coconut milk and Gen had grilled fish with herbs. Another yummy Portuguese/
Macanese dish we tried (not at this place) was called African chicken. I am going to make it my mission to figure out how to cook that. Unfortunately, the only
Macanese cookbook on Amazon is something like $80.
This is the entrance to A-Ma temple. Man, it was so hot. 
A gift shop. Shopkeepers are pretty aggressive over there. You can't appear to be too interested. When I was looking for jade in Hong Kong, one of the sellers grabbed my arm and put a bracelet on, then tried to cut the tags off and charge me. I didn't even like the thing!
There were lots of people there. Mostly Chinese. It seemed like most of the Westerners spent their time in the casinos.
There were lots of little buildings. I think this one was the main one.
It's built on a little hillside, so you have to do some climbing to see everything. I didn't mind though. The higher up you get, the more breeze there is. Did I mention it was hot?
One of the small shrines.
These are incense coils. Some of them have trays under to catch the ash (on the right side), but I stupidly stood under some that didn't. I got ashed! It hurt a little.
A-Ma is the goddess of the sea and seafarers. This little boat was inside the main temple.
These are fortunes. In Japan, you normally just get a piece of paper. These were so pretty and they sounded like little bells or windchimes.
A famous restaurant in Macau. We went here for lunch after the temple. It was really good. I had some kind of chicken dish cooked with turmeric and coconut milk and Gen had grilled fish with herbs. Another yummy Portuguese/Macanese dish we tried (not at this place) was called African chicken. I am going to make it my mission to figure out how to cook that. Unfortunately, the only Macanese cookbook on Amazon is something like $80.
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