What I did besides bug hunting

[Katnapper]

I'd meant to comment on the hotel in a previous post. Only a 3-star rating? Wow... very nice indeed. It makes me wonder what a 4 or 5 star hotel would look like! :blink:

It's a shame you lost most of the pics of Butterfly Farm. And of the ones left, none were even of butterflies. But that is a beautiful Orchid mantis.

I love the Kuan Ying statue, and beautiful pic of the food court! Oh, and the canal right inside the shopping complex!!

 

[yen_saw]

We decided to take a boat ride...

That guy can really sing.... is Italian song. I have a clip here. If you recognise the song it is from the "God Father" movie.



A pic on the boat

There is a live puppet show too

a small clip



Some pics of the hotel;

 

[yen_saw]

I'd meant to comment on the hotel in a previous post. Only a 3-star rating? Wow... very nice indeed. It makes me wonder what a 4 or 5 star hotel would look like! :blink:

yup only 3 star. The Venetian is 5-star hotel we stayed in a 4-star Equatorial hotel in Penang too before my flight back to hong kong but i skipped posting here.back to our hotel room. We weren't aware that we got a suite.... nice

A cleaner is setting up another bed for my son in the lower tier

I can see another hotel being built from our hotel room window

Can't say you have visited Macau without dropping by the Ruins of St. Paul

More place to visit around the Ruins

Ruin's of St. Paul over the decades

Another shot before we leave

Drop by and got some food...yummy!

 

[yen_saw]

There are still plenty of portugese in Macau... pretty amazing.

Grand Lisboa.... this casino used to control all in Macau. Not anymore after all the big hotels built around this island.

A peek inside the Venetian casino. (they don't allow pic on the ground level)

Dinner time!

The popular crab porridge

More food

man i gain so much weight in this trip :angry:

We left the next day after lunch, the shuttle bus bring us anywhere for free which is very convenient

Another new casino hotel the Sands

 

[yen_saw]

Back to Hong Kong. There is this place for seafood called Lei Yue Mun. Is it a fishing village where you pick your own seafood from a stall and also pick the restaurant you want the seafood cook.

Entrance to "Lei yue Mun"

Plenty of seafood store with all kinds of fish, crustacean, shell food, etc. THey are all alive!

I picked up a lobster with one of my niece...

The kids (all nieces) were scare of lobster at first but didn't take very long for them to mess around with it

Even adult come and mess around too <_<

The mantis shrimps are all very long... at least 1 foor long

Mantis in the sea

Geo-duck

 

[yen_saw]

It is like visiting an aquarium except you got to eat it!

After chosing the seafood, we went to the restaurant. we were seated in a room and wait for our food to be served.

and here they are... vegetarian please skip this page!

THe grouper

mantis shrimp

shell fish

barely fit a dinner plate... yes they are huge

 

[yen_saw]

Abalone

The lobster we were holding

The conch meat with vege turns out to be quite good

Crab

Some other food i missed as it was all taken up! have to ask for a pic before anyone touch the dessert lol

So there goes another extra pounds to my belly.....

A shot of the village before leaving

 

[yen_saw]

Time for me to leave Hong Kong and i have to leave alone

Hello Los Angeles

One of our member here Francisco Torres was nice to "adopt" me for 2 days It was fun checking through his bugs and his bugroom was awsome!

Want a tarantulas for breakfast?

Tarantula shed

Rhino roach!

 

[yen_saw]

I got to say all the animals is helping me with my jet-lag in Los Angeles

Lovely skink

This snake was striking at me..grrr

So back to the cage

More snakes

Lot of Scorpian shed

It is like a zoo here!

 

[yen_saw]

Francisco was picking up the cricket from this T's cage. He said the T willl molt very soon. The T molted that night!

Ah a nice Calibia ooth which unfortunately never hatched

Some dead display bugs FT owns... nice!

Well... i will stop here as the next thing was flying back to Houston. Aside from the pics lost and many more that i didn't put up here, these are the stuff I was doing besides bug hunting. 5 weeks sounds like a long vacation but time flies when you have fun! I wouldn't mind putting more time for bug hunting but afterall the trip was to enjoy with my family where I spent most of the time with. Has been a while since i have such vacation, but i hope to do this again in the future, providing my boss doesn't fire me!

 

[Christian]

I wouldn't eat abalone, they are really rare. A IUCN member would start to cry anyway while walking throgh that sea-food mall... :lol:

 

[revmdn]

WOW! The hotel looks just like it does in Las Vegas.

 

[yen_saw]

WOW! The hotel looks just like it does in Las Vegas.

Actually they are the same hotel as in Las Vegas. Many LV hotel casinos invest in Macau over the years have transformed this island into a big sin city in Asia! The Venetian in Macau is newer than the one in LV, i would say slightly larger than the hotel in LV but smaller in gambling area. The one in Macau emphasized on shopping and entertainment. They have many huge stages for consert and area for sport complex. I believed Fall Out Boy is performing in The Venetian next month, and Linkin Park will also be there on August. and if i remember correctly, Andre Agassi and Pete Samprass is due for a game in The Venetian around that time too (Not sure who will really be interested watching there) there are banners on these event everywhere in the hotel.

 

[hibiscusmile]

Yen, what wonderful pictures you brought us, I will have to go over them again just to have a bit of vacation too! The food looks wonderful and I can almost smell it....hmmmmmm wonderful!

 

[pohchunyee]

I am drooling all over my keyboard looking at those seafood!! Sorry Christian! I love seafood!! YUMMY!!

 

[Christian]

I love it too, there are just a few things which should better not be eaten: abalone, tuna fish, sharks etc.

 

[cloud jaguar]

Wow, that mantis shrimp really has mantis hands! My friend had one in graduate school dorm as a pet and it had these little knobby stumps it would break coral with all night and keep me and the other students awake. :wacko: It was really cool when he fed it goldfish because it would knock them senseless with the stumps then eat 'em.

 

[pohchunyee]

I love it too, there are just a few things which should better not be eaten: abalone, tuna fish, sharks etc.

Ahh... I agree..... I stop eating abalone and shark fin soup...LOL... Tuna on the other hand, I ate a lot of can tuna (definately not yellow fin or other critically endangered specie)

 

[wuwu]

i really got visit HK! i didn't get a chance to go during my china trip a couple years ago.

 

[gadunka888]

Wow, that mantis shrimp really has mantis hands! My friend had one in graduate school dorm as a pet and it had these little knobby stumps it would break coral with all night and keep me and the other students awake. :wacko: It was really cool when he fed it goldfish because it would knock them senseless with the stumps then eat 'em.

whoa that is one killer arthropod! i read that they can smash glass! they are edible though.........

( the ''ood-looking beetle'' is a female stag beetle. They are sexually dimorphic. The males look really different from the females. BTW, the seafood market is cool. i like the giant clam things. They are probably 50+ years old..... its sad that theyr'e going to be eaten.)