Author: Jenny Lao-Phillips
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Made in Macao | The greatest gift of all
This is the season to be shopping. You see people making lists and thinking of buying special gifts, but it is getting harder to achieve. As ... -
Made in Macao | The magic Cantonese word to ward off evil
In the Cantonese speaking world, there are many slang words which only exist in our language and cannot be translated even into other Chinese dialects. One ... -
Made in Macao | Sumptuous Chinese banquet
From roast suckling pig to shark fin soup, to large steamed giant grouper, more often than not, we are full by the sixth dish of the ... -
Made in Macao | The End of Heat
In my last article, I wrote about one of the Twenty-Four Solar Terms in August, 立秋 (Lap Cau) Autumn, which commenced on the 8th of August. ... -
Made in Macao | The Moderate and Great Heat of July
These days, it feels terribly hot in Macao. But we are only in the period of Siu Syu 鬼嵌 (Moderate Heat), of the 24 Solar Terms. ... -
Made in Macao | Fall in love to lose weight
Nowadays, we hear the phrases “I have to lose weight” or “I am trying to lose weight” almost every day from people around us. From 200 ... -
Made in Macao | Swimming in ‘Dragon Boat Water’
I have written a lot about stories and legends relating to the coming Tuen Ng Festival, better known as the Dragon Boat Festival, which is tomorrow, ... -
Made In Macao | The fengshui of putting up pictures
One day, a non-Chinese friend asked me for advice on where he should hang a painting. I am no interior designer, but on a large empty ... -
Made in Macao | The forgotten customs of the Spring Equinox
Today marks the Spring Equinox (뉴롸 Chun Fan), the 6th of the 24 solar terms of the year, which is one of the feasts that is ... -
Made in Macao | Post-holiday fitness regime
While the new year is generally the time we make, or try to make, life-changing resolutions, the celebration of Chinese New Year usually results in weight-loss ... -
Made In Macao | The DON’Ts for CNY
Jenny Lao-Phillips For many people, especially ladies, every weekend is shoe shopping time. But in the last week of the lunar year, there are even more ... -
Made in Macao | City of romance?
Lately, I saw some advertisements referring to Macao as the City of Romance. I guess being a City of Creative Gastronomy is not enough to bring ... -
Made in Macau | Into the ‘Cold’
Sometimes keeping track of dates on the calendar becomes quite confusing in this part of the world. Especially in January when we are celebrating the beginning ... -
Made in Macao | Another kind of Winter Solstice celebration
Aside from making this day a public holiday, the importance of Winter Solstice (Dongzhi) has often been downplayed in recent days. We all know that Winter ... -
Made in Macao | Coming of the ‘Heavy Snow’
Heavy Snow is approaching! Unfortunately, it is not as though we are going to have real snow in Macao. I am, of course, referring to one ... -
Made in Macao | Work-Life Balance and the Seven Sins
Talking about the seven sins as a form of work-life-balance may be against my Catholic beliefs. But as I watched the episode about The Seven on ... -
Made in Macao | Why is chrysanthemum wine auspicious?
The Chung Yeung Festival 路陽節, one of the main Chinese festivals of the year, took place one week ago. Two years ago I wrote about how ... -
Made in Macao | National food: rice or noodles?
The Americans have apple-pies on the Fourth of July, and that got me wondering on National Day a few days ago: What food do we consider ... -
Made in Macao | The other mid-autumn festival stories
Next Monday is the Chinese 八月十五 (fifteenth of the eighth month), better known as the Mid- Autumn Festival, 中秋 (Chong Chao). Last year, I wrote about ... -
Made in Macao | When school starts
This week sees Macao’s mornings getting back to the usual hustle and bustle. A sign that the long summer holidays are over and that schools are ... -
Made in Macao | Our dragon culture
For thousands of years, the dragon has been the symbol of the Chinese. We consider ourselves the descendants of the dragons. Although we all know that ... -
Made in Macao | Long-boiled soup – the Chinese secret to health and beauty
A friend who works closely with expatriates in Macao told me that one of the questions she has often been asked is why we Chinese take ... -
Made in Macao | The superstition of seven
The number seven has many representations in different cultures. From the biblical point of view, the creation of our world was done in seven days. The ... -
Made in Macao | I think therefore I create: on traffic and romance
One of the greatest miseries we face living in Macao is traffic. Being stuck in traffic is not that bad if we compare to those who ... -
Made in Macao | A thought on creative development
I believe lots of Star Trek lovers, especially those from North America, have played a drinking game. It goes like this. Whenever Mr. Spock says “fascinating”, ... -
Made in Macao | Triple celebration on Buddha’s birthday
Next Tuesday, 22 May 2018, is the annual holiday celebrating the Buddha’s birthday. What not many people are aware of is that the eighth day of ... -
Made in Macao | Reminiscence of 90s Pop
Macao and Hong Kong share a similar culture. Aside from the tradition and customs, one thing seems to be exactly the same – our pop-songs culture. ... -
Made in Macao | The everywhere groundskeeper god
Last Sunday, Macao was filled with noises and people on the streets. Of course, we are used to having our streets filled on weekends, but this ... -
Made in Macao | From street snacks to must-buy souvenirs
When we think about traditional industries in Macao, aside from gaming, we often think about the manufacturing of textiles, fire crackers, matches and Chinese cakes. While ... -
Made in Macao | On CNY red packets
The most popular tradition of the Lunar New Year is of course the practice of giving and receiving Lai Si (red packets). But not everyone knows ... -
Made in Macao | Out with the old
Next Tuesday, February 13, is a special day. No, it is not Chinese New Year yet, and no, it is not special because it is Valentine’s ... -
Made in Macao | Surviving the coldest days in Macao
Generally speaking, Macao has no real winter now. The winter I remember when I was a child used to be between three to nine degrees, sometimes ... -
Made in Macao | Hot Pot Season
It may be a bit hard to say exactly if winter is here, with the weather these days. However, one thing we can be sure of ... -
Made in Macao | Drinking culture in Macao
The drinking culture of a place shows a lot about the tradition and social life of that place. For the Portuguese, it is customary to have ... -
Made in Macao | Living a nomadic lifestyle in Macao
A nomad lives under a constant change of location, involving minimum attachment to the immediate surroundings, not letting things own them, and meeting different people from ...
