Macau cricket fights

Dan and I made a short trip to Macau, which is about an hour from Hong Kong. Although Macau is very much Chinese, there is definitely a different kind of culture specific to Macau, as influenced by the Portuguese (signs were in both Chinese and Portuguese). We first went to Largo do Senado and visited the Ruins of St. Paul, which were really impressive. We walked around the street markets for a bit and tried some Macau almond cookies and some sweet dried meat thing. There's an entire street dedicated to these cookies and dried meats, packed with tourists trying out samples. It was pretty overwhelming. Then we went to Monte Fort, a vast fort with an amazing view of the central area of Macau. We stopped by the Macau Museum. My favorite bit of information: cricket fighting. Cricket fighting was particularly big in Macau. At the museum, we saw cricket coffins (yes, they held real funerals for crickets that died in fights) and saw preserved"cricket champions". We had dinner at an unfortunately not so great restaurant and had Macanese specialities like African chicken, which is done with coconut and chillies. Oh well, at least we tried it. We also visited the Leal Senado, Church of St. Dominic and ended up at this park behind this pink building when we realized that, besides the Las Vegas-like casinos, there was nothing to do in Macau at night. When we went, the air was terribly polluted with moped exhaust and I kept walking around the streets with my scarf in my face.