Restaurant in Hotel Lisboa Macau

Restaurant "Noite e Dia Café" in Hotel Lisboa Macau

- 1st night - 

 

Restaurant "Noite e Dia Café"

Portuguese Chicken
[Portuguese: Galinha à Portuguesa]
[Chinese: 葡國雞]

 

 

Seafood Spaghetti

 

 

- Breakfast -

Breakfast Buffet

 

 

- 3rd night -

Bisque (Shrimp soup) in the bread

 

 

Fried noodles

 

 

African Chicken
[Portuguese: Galinha à Africana]
[Chinese: 非洲雞]

 

 

Episode of restaurant in Hotel Lisboa Macau

Tomo&Chouchou arrived late on the first day. We walked and looked for a restaurant near the hotel. Any restaurants didn't hit us so much. We also worried about closing time. We decided to go back to the hotel and eat in the hotel. Restaurant "Noite e Dia Café" was open. We entered the restaurant. It was nice atmosphere. Tomo wanted to eat Macau cuisine during this trip. So Tomo ordered Portuguese Chicken [Portuguese: Galinha à Portuguesa] [Chinese: 葡國雞]. It was visually beautiful. The taste was also very good. Chouchou ordered Seafood spaghetti. We enjoyed meal in the relaxing mood at the restaurant in Hotel Lisboa. 

On the third day, we could eat breakfast in the hotel. We had Breakfast at the same restaurant "Noite e Dia Café". It was buffet style. We could eat Chinese and western dishes. There were so many varieties of dishes. There were fresh fruits and desserts. We really enjoyed breakfast. We were so satisfied.

After eating breakfast, we visited world heritage sites in Macau. We had to check out early in the morning next day, so we decided to go back to hotel and had dinner at the restaurant in the hotel. We went to same restaurant in Hotel Lisboa. We ate African chicken [Portuguese: Galinha à Africana] [Chinese: 非洲雞] as Macau cuisine. We also ate Fried noodles as Chinese cuisine. We ate Bisque (shrimp soup) in the bread. Everything was tasty. We really enjoyed all meals.

All foods that we ate in Macau was great. We don't normally eat in the same restaurant during the trip. But in Macau, we ate at the same restaurant "Noite e Dia Café"  several times. Even though, we didn't feel bored because of wide variety. It was the attractive point in Macau. We were in Macau but we could feel that we were in Portugual or China. The architecture, culture and foods were mixed well, then people in Macau created their original culture, cuisine and so on. 

Tomo&Chouchou recommend the restaurant in Hotel Lisboa Macau. It was easy to discover and taste many kinds of dishes. The quality and taste were good. 

 

Information

Hotel Lisboa Macau / 澳門葡京酒店

Address: 2-4, Avenida de Lisboa, Macau

 

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Hotel Meguma in Wakkanai, Hokkaido

Northernmost hotel in Japan "Hotel Meguma"

Crab dinner: Soya Kanizukushi Gozen; 宗谷カニづくし御膳

Horsehair crab [毛ガニ], Red king crab [タラバガニ], snow crab [ズワイガニ]

fireplace at Hotel Meguma lounge

Room of Hotel Meguma

Front door of Hotel Meguma

We took a walk around the hotel in the early morning.

Back street of the Hotel Meguma.

We climbed up small snow hill.

We could see the white Mt.Rishiri [Japanese: 利尻山; Rishiri-zan] far.

breakfast of Hotel Meguma

Episode of Hotel Meguma

Tomo&Chouchou joined Hokkaido group tour. On the first day, we traveled Wakkanai [Japanese: 稚内] where was northernmost landmark in Japan. We stayed at Hotel Meguma [Japanese: ホテルめぐま] in Wakkanai. To be honest, Tomo&Chouchou didn't expect to have great dinner. Because, normally, it's difficult to have great meals with group tour. However, it was a great surprise! When we arrived at the restaurant, we were so surprised to see such a wonderful meal. There were three types of crabs; horsehair crab, snow crab and red king crab. So many varieties. Full of local foods. We really enjoyed crab dinner menu [Japanese: 宗谷カニづくし御膳].The service and atmosphere at the restaurant of Hotel Meguma was nice. We could really enjoy dinner.

After the dinner, we enjoyed hotspring [温泉]. Unfortunatelly we cannot take a photo in the hotspring. Especially open-air bath, we enjoyed hotspring in the snow. bath. There was snow so it was cold. But the hotspring was hot. It was simply great. It is the great moment to enjoy hotspring in winter. There was the fireplace [暖炉] at the lounge in Hotel Meguma. So after taking a bath, we could be relaxed there. Hotel room were western style and nice. Beds were comfortable.

Next morning, Tomo&Chouchou decided to have a walk because we love snow. We walked around the hotel. We didn't go far. We went to the backstreet of Hotel Meguma. We found a small snow hill. We decided to approach and climb it up. It was enjoyable to walk on the snow and to make our footprints. It was very beautiful view with white snow. It was very quiet and refreshing. We could see the white snow mountain "Mt.Rishiri [Japanese: 利尻山]" far. We didn't expect to see such a big mountain. It was a lucky surprise. We felt it was the right decision to walk in the early morning as we could see the wonderful landscape. We could also take a photo at the front door of the hotel. Then we had breakfast. It was Japanese meal. It was good.

Hotel Meguma is the northernmost hotel in Japan. Foods are great. They use local foods. We could enjoy seafood. We were so satisfied with Hotel Meguma. Hotel Meguma gave us a great memory of our Hokkaido trip.

Information

Hotel Meguma   / ホテルめぐま

Address: 2-13-14 Koetoi, Wakkanai, Hokkaido[北海道稚内市声問2丁目13番14号]

Access: 5 minutes by car from Wakkanai airport

(cf. It takes 1 hour 50 minutes from Haneda airport to Wakkanai airport by plane.) 

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Travel Itinerary of Hokkaido Snow Festival tour Tomo & Chouchou joined

Travel agent：Club Tourism International Inc.
Date: Feb in 2016 (2 nights 3 days)

1st day: Arrive at Wakkanai airport　⇒　Scallop lunch at Wakkanai station which has northernmost railroad track　⇒　Snow activities such as snow rafting, snow mobile, snow tube at Soya Fureai Park (Japanese: Soya Fureai Koen, 宗谷ふれあい公園）　⇒　Visit Cape Sōya (Japanese: Sōya-Misaki, 宗谷岬), where is the northernmost point of Japan. Visit Drift Ice Hall too.　⇒　Watch Russian musical ensemble at Wakkanai Sakhalin Hall (Japanese: Wakkanai Sakhalin Kan, 稚内サハリン館)　⇒　 Stay at Hotel Meguma in Wakkanai. Enjoy Wakkanai hot spring and Soya crab dinner course.

2nd day: Visit Lake Kutcharo (Japanese: Kutcharo-ko, クッチャロ湖) in Hamatombetsu (浜頓別).　⇒　Go to Cape Drift Ice / Cape Ryuhyo (Japanese: Ryuhyo-misaki, 流氷岬) in Monbetsu (紋別). Bord on the drift ice crusher "Garinko Ⅱ".　⇒　Stay at Sounkyo Kankou Hotel (層雲峡観光ホテル). Enjoy  41th Sounkyo Ice Waterfall Festival at night.

3rd day: Enjoy snow sculpture and ice sculpture of 67th Sapporo Snow Festival.　⇒　Eat Sapporo Ramen (Japanese:  ラーメン, which is a Japanese noodle soup) at New Chitose Airport Terminal (Japanese: Shin Chitose Kuko, 新千歳空港)  　⇒　Fly back to go home.

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Travel review of Hokkaido Snow Festival group tour

Tomo & Chouchou had dreamed of traveling to the snow festival in Hokkaido. Our dream came true with this tour!

There are so many snow festivals in Hokkaido. Sapporo Snow Festival is the most famous one. With this tour, we could go to two festivals "Sapporo Snow Festival" and "Sounkyo Hyobaku Festival". Normally it costs a lot to travel to Hokkaido during snow festival season. With this group tour, we could travel at a relatively reasonable price. So we were very lucky. We could also visit the northernmost point of Japan and board the drift ice crusher. Even though we couldn't see the drift ice, 2016 was not so enough cold to see the drift ice, it was enjoyable to look for the drift ice. All the foods that we ate were good. We were really satisfied with this tour.

 

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Belgian cuisine

There are so many delicious foods in Belgian cuisine  !

Tomo & Chouchou strongly recommend "Carbonade flamande"!
This dish is a beef stew made with Belgian beer.
Beef is so tender and it's like melting in the mouth.
You can taste Belgian beer at the same time.

"Moules-frites".
We can often see Moules-frites in France, 

but the origin of Moules-frites is Belgium.
There are full of mussels in the pot.
You can feel luxury.
 

The origin of French fries /chips is also Belgium or France.

Good French fries are not so oily.

We can taste real potate's taste if they're cooked well. 

"croquettes aux crevettes (grises)"
It is a croquette made with shrimps.
You can enjoy thick shrimp taste. 

Waffle [gaufre] as dessert.
There are so many toppings of waffles such as fruits, chocolates or whipped cream. 

 

Please look for your favorite waffle!

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Icelandic food

 

- Tomo & Choucho's recommending Icelandic foods -

 

 

famous Icelandic specialty "Lamb soup"

"Fish cake"

"Fish soup" made with lots of fish.
 

"reindeer soup"

"fish & chips" at Harry's

Episode of Icelandic foods

Tomo & Chouchou really enjoyed Icelandic foods in Iceland!  Actually everything was good! We would like to introduce some of them.

Firstly, famous Icelandic specialty is "Lamb soup" which made with Icelandic lamb. Icelandic lamb soup doesn't have any special smell of lamb. It was very mild and it was easy to drink. Lamb soup made our bodies warm.

Fish are rich in Iceland, so they are good at cooking fish. For example, "Fish cake". Don't imagine a cake as dessert ! It's like a croquette or a doughnut made with mashed fish meat. Surprisingly, we didn't recognize a particular fish smell.
We cannot explain the exact taste but it was just very good. We wanted to eat more !

Also, we recommend "Fish soup" made with lots of fish. It's very thick soup and it's very tasty. 

One day, Tomo & Chouchou went to the bar that serves soup. This bar has a good reputation of the reasonal price & good taste. They serve two different types of soup and change daily. We ate "reindeer soup" ! We had never tasted reindeer so we took advantage of it. Reindeer soup made our bodies warm and gave energy. It was very good. We didn't notice strong animal smell.

Lastly, Tomo & Chouchou stayed in Best Western Hotel in Reykjavik. We found a restaurant called "Harry's" beside the hotel. The server of this restaurant was very nice and friendly. Meals were also very good. Married mix-couple owns the restaurant. Asian wife cooks, so we can also find Asian meals there. We ate "fish & chips". It was really good ! As it was so good, we went there again ! At second time, we ate Icelandic "Lamb chops". Lamb meat was so tender and it was delicious !

FYI, Best Western Hotel was fine. We were satisfied with their breakfast and service. We could walk to the downtown so it was very convenient.

We didn't expect such delicious meals in Iceland before going there. We were totally wrong. Actually we didn't know Icelandic foods were good. We discovered that Icelandic foods were very delicious. Icelandic foods are basically simple. We can taste the ingredients. Because Ingredients were very fresh. Lambs were well-treated. Iceland protect their local foods. We love their mind. We can understand why Icelandic foods are tasty. It was a good discovery for us! We became a fun of Icelandic foods. :-)    

 

Please enjoy and discover Icelandic meals when you go to Iceland !



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Recommended foods & drinks in West Europe

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< in West Europe >

 <Germany>

German Wine
Talking of wine, people tend to imagine France.
But German wines are mostly sweet and tasty.
So if you like sweet wine, Tomo&Chouchou recommend German wine.


Non-alcohol Black beer
Germany is famous for beer.
You may think that beer without alcohol is not good.
But even without alcohol, non-alcohol German beer has rich taste.
Non-alcohol beer is a bit sweet but anyway has strong beer taste.



 <Andorra>

Arròs de muntanya (riz de montagne)
Arròs de muntanya (Riz de montagne) is a dish like a paella or a risotto
cooked with the ingredients from mountains.
Riz de montagne had big quantity.
It was delicious because all the taste of mountain ingredients was together in it.


Amanida de favas (Salade de fèves/ bload beans salad)
Amanida de favas (Salade de fèves) is a salad with small fava beans.
Salade de fèves had real rich vegetable taste.


Wine of Andorra
Andorra has no tax for the alcohols,
so many people come from Spain or France to buy alcohols a lot.
Tomo&Chouchou drank pink wine (wine rosé). It was very tasty.
The color of pink was thicker.



 <Belgium>

Carbonnade (Belgian beef and beer stew)
Carbonnade is a Belgian speciality.
Belgium is famous for beer.
Carbonnade is a beef stew boiled with beer for a long time.
So beer taste penetrate to the beef well.
Beef is very tender. It's like melting in the mouth.
We strongly recommend to eat Carbonnade when you go to Belgium !


Croquette de Crevettes
Croquette de crevettes is a croquette made with small gray shrimps.
This croquette has strong shrimp taste.


Belgian beer
Belgium has so many varieties of beer.
There are fruit beer such as raspberry beer, peach beer or apple beer.
Tomo&Chouchou liked "chimay" which is brune (dark brown colour) beer.
Brune beer has rich and sweet flavour. It was very good.


 <France>

Moules-frites (Mussel & French fries)
We cannot easily find such a big quantity of Mussel in the restaurant in Japan.
Mussels are full of the pot !
Please try Mussel & French fries while you are in France !
There are many flavours such as simple standard sauce: white wine and salt,
tomato sauce, or cream sauce.


crevettes à la crème
The dish looked like steamed shrimps in fresh cream.
It was so tasty.
Tomo&Chouchou ate this meal at the restaurant in Hotel de Paris in Moulins.
Moulins is located in Auvergne.
All dishes of that restaurant in Hotel de Paris were delicious.

soupe de melon et de pastèque (Melon & watermelon soup)
It is popular to eat cold soup like Gazpacho in Summer in France.
Tomo&Chouchou were suprised at the soup made with melon and watermelon.
So we tried it. Melon & watermelon soup refreshed us a lot. It was very good.
Tomo&Chouchou ate that soup at the restaurant which is called "La couronne".
Restaurant "La couronne" is the oldest restaurant in France.
This restaurant is located in Rouen in Normandy.
They have high service, beautiful decoration.
Many celebrities have visited this restaurant.



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< in North & South America >

<CANADA>

Moccachino etc. with whipped cream by Second Cup

Second Cup is a cafe where is located in Canada, especially in Quebec.
Second Cup is similar to Starbucks or A.L.Van Houtte.
We can get free whipped cream on cafe or chocolate in Second Cup.
The staff in Second Cup will ask if you want to have whipped cream or not.
Moccachino or Chocolate with whipped cream make us warm and relaxed
in such cold weather in Quebec.

Onion soup

Onion soup that we ate in Quebec city is unforgettable taste !
When we were extremely cold under the snow and we drank that onion soup,
our body were so relieved and melted. We got energy back.
Onion soup was just too good.
It looks they put a pastry on the cup of onion soup and cooked it in oven.
When we break the pastry, we can find melted cheese in the tasty onion soup.


<Brazil>

Coxinha

Coxinha is Brazilian croquette.
Coxinha is a wonderful snack to eat when we are a bit hungry.
The croquette that Tomo&Chouchou ate had taste of Tuna and it was good !

Feijoada

Fejioada is a stew made with black beans and pork.
When we see Fejioada, it looks a bit grotesque.
But once we eat one spoon of Fejioada, we feel we wants to eat it more or again.
Surprisingly, Fejioada makes a good match with rice.

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< in England & Iceland >

<England>

English tea and scone with clotted cream

Talking of England, everybody imagine English tea, right?
We don't know if it's because of water, anyway English tea in England is excellent !
When people order the tea, they also order scones. It seems that it's a tradition.
We ordered tea and scones when we travelled around Cotswolds.
Scones were served with the clotted cream and the jam.
It was the best clotted cream that we have eaten so far !
We tasted clotted cream in London but it was not same.
We can assure that it's the best to eat scones with real clotted cream !

 

<Iceland>

Lamb soup 

We thought the lamb soup has the smell of lamb but surprisingly we didn't smell any.

It was very tasty.

reindeer soup

Many people might hesitate to eat reindeer, but surprisingly raindeer soup was tasty.

We didn't taste original animal smell.
We had better eat something that local people eat.
It makes our body warm in the cold weather.

Fish cakes

Fish cake looks like a donut made with fish.

It was easy to eat and we didn't feel fish so much.


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