Hotpot dinner in Fai Chi Kei



Since it was a cool day in Macau, we decided to have a hotpot dinner in Fai Chi Kei (筷子基). The restaurant is called Est. de Comidas Fong Son Mei Sek. All the food you see in the photos costs a total of MOP216. We also ordered two bottles of San Miguel beer. This restaurant is actually a branch restaurant. The original restaurant is located in Barra (媽閣) district. The famous dish is this seafood+BBQ pork hotpot. It has crab, shrimps, shelled fish and BBQ pork all stuffed into the hotpot. In all, 3 people couldn't finish the entire pot of food. We managed to finish the deep fried wonton!
Funny incidents happened to me when I took the Transmac bus no. AP1 towards Macau International Airport (澳門國際機場). I've started to take AP1 over 1A due to the overcrowding on the buses. There's less people taking AP1 due to the MOP0.80 extra fare and really cuts down on the travel time by taking Avenida Dr. Sun-Yat Sen (孫逸仙大馬路) instead of hooking around New Yaohan Department Store (新八佰伴). As I was waiting for the bus stop, a packed bus (coincidentally it was Transmac Bus no. 1A) stopped to pick up passengers. Some people think they can board the bus at the exit doors and escape paying for the bus fare. One passenger wanted to board the bus by the exit doors. The so-called bus stop attendant yelled at the passenger to enter at the front/entrance doors. These bus stop attendants hired by Transmac don't really do much than tell people to move to the back of the bus or to help close the entrance doors of packed buses. I think they also keep track of the buses that pass by the bus stop? Anyways, the passenger screamed, "What's the point? The passengers inside the bus are not moving towards the back! I cannot get on the bus". The bus stop attendant yelled back, "I am not going to let you get on the bus by the exit doors. If you want to complain, you can call my company up. I do not want to lose my job because of you". The passenger had no choice to squeeze through the entrance. This reminded me of the rush hour trains in Tokyo. You were literally shoved on board the vehicle like sardines.
After I got on the bus AP1, at the next bus stop - Avenida de Venceslau de Morais 慕拉士大馬路(飛通大廈), I saw the bus stop attendant in a yelling match with a taxi driver. The taxi driver was really infuriated by his loud voice and pointing at the bus stop attendant. I don't know what really happened. But it was not a peaceful day in the life of a Transmac bus stop attendant.
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