PART 03 - Take a break in Tainan!
After all these adventures you will need to relax so I am going to introduce you to a few places where you might need to charge your batteries and take a good rest. It could be just a cup of coffee, tea or perhaps you may need a comfortable and cozy place to stay, but… let’s be honest - one day in Tainan is never enough!
台南大飯店 Hotel Tainan
One of the oldest modern hotels in Tainan (and generally in southern Taiwan). It’s called - Tainan hotel. Apart from its vintage and classic style, it’s perfectly preserved until now. Actually, staying there you feel a bit like moving back in time in a good sense. And also - if you take a train to Tainan - well, the hotel is right near the Tainan train station, right in the heart of the city of Tainan.
Fresh Chinese and Western Cuisine are also offered at the Tainan hotel. Worth noting is the fact that the establishment has 50 years of cooking experience since it’s the firstly-open buffet restaurant in Tainan. As the first buffet restaurant in Tainan, they keep the tradition very well by satisfying old Tainanese’s taste. Apart from traditional Tainan cuisine - rice dumpling, tan tan noodles, they also serve seafood - freshly steamed fish, all types of crabs, shrimp, sashimi, and more… They also provide late-night supper after 9:30pm. How sweat! If you have chance to dine out here or stay one night, you will find out the secret of the everlasting Hotel Tainan.
台南大員皇冠假日酒店 Crowne Plaza Hotel
The other location I can introduce is the Crowne Plaza Hotel. This one is in the Anping district - it’s in an historical district with lots of landmarks, food, and close to the seaside. . I love to take architecture and interior photography myself, and this place can amaze you in many ways, such as the hall, glass elevators and more. you will also notice that the designers dot the i's and cross the t's when it comes to the details - look at the paintings in the corridors or sword lion with room numbers hanging on the walls. This place offers many types of accommodations including really high end suites overlooking either the Yanshui Estuary Wetland or the ancient beauty of Anping old street. You don’t need to imagine. I took a few photos for you.
There are also plenty of options when it comes to dining there:a buffet style restaurant with seafood, western and asian foods, cantonese and japanese restaurants., not to mention the lounge bar serving drinks and snacks.
黑琵軼棧 民宿 K&B Happy Hostel
What if you don’t like hotels and prefer home-stay? No problem, we have an alternative for you as well. Then owner is Ken. He spent significant part of his life in Europe and in Australia. But he is Taiwanese and thinks Taiwanese hospitality is one of the most precious things on this beautiful island (and I personally cannot agree more!). So Ken decided to open Hostel mixing European lifestyle and interiors with Taiwanese hospitality. The place is not big (only 5 rooms) which makes it really cozy, but it’s more than sufficient. The place is suitable for barbecues or other friendly gatherings. Also, there are bicycles offered for guests, so you can explore Anping district very easily, as well as the National Park, Anping beach and Old Street.
兜空間 DOU MAISON
DOU MAISON is situated on Zhongzhen road. This is an historically important place because during the Japanese rule the neighborhood served as a representative location to the city of Tainan. Hence the architecture and buildings here are noticeably marvelous. Worth noting here is that the Hayashi Department Store 林百貨 is also located not from DOU MAISON. If you are into architecture and style you should visit both.
DOU Maison is a concept store from DOUCHANGLEE & CHANGLEEYUGIN - apart from enjoying gourmet drinks and cakes , you can also shop at the gallery - from coffee making products, antique furniture, clothes, handmade leather products and accessories. The place is really picturesque inside - if you come here without your camera you will definitely regret it :)
The menu special is 280$ - dessert of the day + beverage of choice.
路易莎咖啡台南健康店 Luisa Cafe
Luisa Cafe is a very popular chain coffee shop in Taiwan. It’s a western style coffee shop with local twist which means apart from huge selection of coffee, they also offer tea and quite a selection of foods as well: snacks, sandwiches, burgers, muffins, bagels, cakes, pastries. It’s a great place to hang out with your friends, sip some drinks and chill. The prices are really reasonable while serving good quality drinks.
Feel free to ask any questions that you have, feel free to share and tag friends that haven’t been to Tainan before or recently, and need to go there with you and… and…. and make sure you stay tuned because there are more stories coming soon!
More details:
台南大飯店 Hotel Tainan
Address: No. 1, Chenggong Road, West Central District, Tainan City
台南大員皇冠假日酒店 Crowne Plaza Tainan
Address: No. 289, Zhouping Road, Anping District, Tainan City
黑琵軼棧 民宿 K&B Happy Hostel
Address: No. 12, Lane 38, Zhoupinger Street, Anping District, Tainan City
兜空間 Dou Maison
Address: No. 31, Zhongzheng Road, West Central District, Tainan City
Opening hours: 13:00-21:00
路易莎咖啡台南健康店 Louisa Coffee
Address: No. 186, Section 2, Jiankang Road, South District, Tainan City
Opening hours: 07:00-22:00
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同時也有1部Youtube影片,追蹤數超過8,520的網紅Josh the Intern,也在其Youtube影片中提到,Many people do not know that Dalgona Coffee originated from a little local cafe located in Coloane, Macau! In this video I go on the ultimate hiking ...
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根據計算,100萬人遊行隊伍要從維多利亞公園排到廣東;200萬人遊行則要排到泰國。
順道一提香港15~30歲人口約莫100出頭萬人。以照片人群幾乎都是此年齡帶來看,兩個數字都是明顯誇大太多了。
另一個可以參考的是1969年的Woodstock Music & Art Fair,幾天內湧進40萬人次,照片看起來也是滿山滿谷的人。(http://sites.psu.edu/…/upl…/sites/851/2013/01/Woodstock3.jpg)
當年40萬人次引發驚人的大塞車,幾乎花十幾個小時才逐漸清場。
而香港遊行清場速度明顯快得多。
順道一提,因此運動而認定「你的父母不愛你」的白痴論述也如同文化大革命時的「爹親娘親不如毛主席親」般開始出現:
https://www.facebook.com/SaluteToHKPolice/videos/350606498983830/UzpfSTUyNzM2NjA3MzoxMDE1NjMyMTM4NjY3MTA3NA/
EVERY MAJOR NEWS outlet in the world is reporting that two million people, well over a quarter of our population, joined a single protest.
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It’s an astonishing thought that filled an enthusiastic old marcher like me with pride. Unfortunately, it’s almost certainly not true.
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A march of two million people would fill a street that was 58 kilometers long, starting at Victoria Park in Hong Kong and ending in Tanglangshan Country Park in Guangdong, according to one standard crowd estimation technique.
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If the two million of us stood in a queue, we’d stretch 914 kilometers (568 miles), from Victoria Park to Thailand. Even if all of us marched in a regiment 25 people abreast, our troop would stretch towards the Chinese border.
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Yes, there was a very large number of us there. But getting key facts wrong helps nobody. Indeed, it could hurt the protesters more than anyone.
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For math geeks only, here’s a discussion of the actual numbers that I hope will interest you whatever your political views.
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DO NUMBERS MATTER?
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People have repeatedly asked me to find out “the real number” of people at the recent mass rallies in Hong Kong.
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I declined for an obvious reason: There was a huge number of us. What does it matter whether it was hundreds of thousands or a million? That’s not important.
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But my critics pointed out that the word “million” is right at the top of almost every report about the marches. Clearly it IS important.
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FIRST, THE SCIENCE
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In the west, drone photography is analyzed to estimate crowd sizes.
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This reporter apologizes for not having found a comprehensive database of drone images of the Hong Kong protests.
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But we can still use related methods, such as density checks, crowd-flow data and impact assessments. Universities which have gathered Hong Kong protest march data using scientific methods include Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, University of Hong Kong, and Hong Kong Baptist University.
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DENSITY CHECKS
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Figures gathered in the past by Hong Kong Polytechnic specialists using satellite photo analysis found a density level of one square meter per marcher. Modern analysis suggests this remains roughly accurate.
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I know from experience that Hong Kong marches feature long periods of normal spacing (one square meter or one and half per person, walking) and shorter periods of tight spacing (half a square meter or less per person, mostly standing).
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JOINERS AND SPEED
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We need to include people who join halfway. In the past, a Hong Kong University analysis using visual counting methods cross-referenced with one-on-one interviews indicated that estimates should be boosted by 12% to accurately reflect late joiners. These days, we’re much more generous in estimating joiners.
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As for speed, a Hong Kong Baptist University survey once found a passing rate of 4,000 marchers every ten minutes.
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Videos of the recent rallies indicates that joiner numbers and stop-start progress were highly erratic and difficult to calculate with any degree of certainty.
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DISTANCE MULTIPLIED BY DENSITY
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But scientists have other tools. We know the walking distance between Victoria Park and Tamar Park is 2.9 kilometers. Although there was overspill, the bulk of the marchers went along Hennessy Road in Wan Chai, which is about 25 meters (or 82 feet) wide, and similar connected roads, some wider, some narrower.
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Steve Doig, a specialist in crowd analysis approached by the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR), analyzed an image of Hong Kong marchers to find a density level of 7,000 people in a 210-meter space. Although he emphasizes that crowd estimates are never an exact science, that figure means one million Hong Kong marchers would need a street 18.6 miles long – which is 29 kilometers.
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Extrapolating these figures for the June 16 claim of two million marchers, you’d need a street 58 kilometers long.
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Could this problem be explained away by the turnover rate of Hong Kong marchers, which likely allowed the main (three kilometer) route to be filled more than once?
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The answer is yes, to some extent. But the crowd would have to be moving very fast to refill the space a great many times over in a single afternoon and evening. It wasn’t. While I can walk the distance from Victoria Park to Tamar in 41 minutes on a quiet holiday afternoon, doing the same thing during a march takes many hours.
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More believable: There was a huge number of us, but not a million, and certainly not two million.
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IMPACT MEASUREMENTS
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A second, parallel way of analyzing the size of the crowd is to seek evidence of the effects of the marchers’ absence from their normal roles in society.
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If we extract two million people out of a population of 7.4 million, many basic services would be severely affected while many others would grind to a complete halt.
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Manpower-intensive sectors of society, such as transport, would be badly affected by mass absenteeism. Industries which do their main business on the weekends, such as retail, restaurants, hotels, tourism, coffee shops and so on would be hard hit. Round-the-clock operations such as hospitals and emergency services would be severely troubled, as would under-the-radar jobs such as infrastructure and utility maintenance.
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There seems to be no evidence that any of that happened in Hong Kong.
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HOW DID WE GET INTO THIS MESS?
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To understand that, a bit of historical context is necessary.
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In 2003, a very large number of us walked from Victoria Park to Central. The next day, newspapers gave several estimates of crowd size.
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The differences were small. Academics said it was 350,000 plus. The police counted 466,000. The organizers, a group called the Civil Rights Front, rounded it up to 500,000.
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No controversy there. But there was trouble ahead.
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THINGS FALL APART
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At a repeat march the following year, it was obvious to all of us that our numbers were far lower that the previous year. The people counting agreed: the academics said 194,000 and the police said 200,000.
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But the Civil Rights Front insisted that there were MORE than the previous year’s march: 530,000 people.
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The organizers lost credibility even with us, their own supporters. To this day, we all quote the 2003 figure as the high point of that period, ignoring their 2004 invention.
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THE TRUTH COUNTS
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The organizers had embarrassed the marchers. The following year several organizations decided to serve us better, with detailed, scientific counts.
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After the 2005 march, the academics said the headcount was between 60,000 and 80,000 and the police said 63,000. Separate accounts by other independent groups agreed that it was below 100,000.
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But the organizers? The Civil Rights Front came out with the awkward claim that it was a quarter of a million. Ouch. (This data is easily confirmed from multiple sources in newspaper archives.)
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AN UNEXPECTED TWIST
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But then came a twist. Some in the Western media chose to present ONLY the organizer’s “outlier” claim.
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“Dressed in black and chanting ‘one man, one vote’, a quarter of a million people marched through Hong Kong yesterday,” said the Times of London in 2005.
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“A quarter of a million protesters marched through Hong Kong yesterday to demand full democracy from their rulers in Beijing,” reported the UK Independent.
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It became obvious that international media outlets were committed to emphasizing whichever claim made the Hong Kong government (and by extension, China) look as bad as possible. Accuracy was nowhere in the equation.
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STRATEGICALLY CHOSEN
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At universities in Hong Kong, there were passionate discussions about the apparent decision to pump up the numbers as a strategy, with the international media in mind. Activists saw two likely positive outcomes.
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First, anyone who actually wanted the truth would choose a middle point as the “real” number: thus it was worth making the organizers’ number as high as possible. (The police could be presented as corrupt puppets of Beijing.)
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Second, international reporters always favored the largest number, since it implicitly criticized China. Once the inflated figure was established in the Western media, it would become the generally accepted figure in all publications.
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Both of the activists’ predictions turned out to be bang on target. In the following years, headcounts by social scientists and police were close or even impressively confirmed the other—but were ignored by the agenda-driven international media, who usually printed only the organizers’ claims.
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SKIP THIS SECTION
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Skip this section unless you want additional examples to reinforce the point.
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In 2011, researchers and police said that between 63,000 and 95,000 of us marched. Our delightfully imaginative organizers multiplied by four to claim there were 400,000 of us.
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In 2012, researchers and police produced headcounts similar to the previous year: between 66,000 and 97,000. But the organizers claimed that it was 430,000. (These data can also be easily confirmed in any newspaper archive.)
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SKIP THIS SECTION TOO
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Unless you’re interested in the police angle. Why are police figures seen as lower than others? On reviewing data, two points emerge.
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First, police estimates rise and fall with those of independent researchers, suggesting that they function correctly: they are not invented. Many are slightly lower, but some match closely and others are slightly higher. This suggests that the police simply have a different counting method.
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Second, police sources explain that live estimates of attendance are used for “effective deployment” of staff. The number of police assigned to work on the scene is a direct reflection of the number of marchers counted. Thus officers have strong motivation to avoid deliberately under-estimating numbers.
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RECENT MASS RALLIES
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Now back to the present: this hot, uncomfortable summer.
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Academics put the 2019 June 9 rally at 199,500, and police at 240,000. Some people said the numbers should be raised or even doubled to reflect late joiners or people walking on parallel roads. Taking the most generous view, this gave us total estimates of 400,000 to 480,000.
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But the organizers, God bless them, claimed that 1.03 million marched: this was four times the researchers’ conservative view and more than double the generous view.
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The addition of the “.03m” caused a bit of mirth among social scientists. Even an academic writing in the rabidly pro-activist Hong Kong Free Press struggled to accept it. “Undoubtedly, the anti-amendment group added the extra .03 onto the exact one million figure in order to give their estimate a veneer of accuracy,” wrote Paul Stapleton.
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MIND-BOGGLING ESTIMATE
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But the vast majority of international media and social media printed ONLY the organizers’ eyebrow-raising claim of a million plus—and their version soon fed back into the system and because the “accepted” number. (Some mentioned other estimates in early reports and then dropped them.)
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The same process was repeated for the following Sunday, June 16, when the organizers’ frankly unbelievable claim of “about two million” was taken as gospel in the majority of international media.
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“Two million people in Hong Kong protest China's growing influence,” reported Fox News.
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“A record two million people – over a quarter of the city’s population” joined the protest, said the Guardian this morning.
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“Hong Kong leader apologizes as TWO MILLION take to the streets,” said the Sun newspaper in the UK.
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Friends, colleagues, fellow journalists—what happened to fact-checking? What happened to healthy skepticism? What happened to attempts at balance?
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CONCLUSIONS?
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I offer none. I prefer that you do your own research and draw your own conclusions. This is just a rough overview of the scientific and historical data by a single old-school citizen-journalist working in a university coffee shop.
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I may well have made errors on individual data points, although the overall message, I hope, is clear.
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Hong Kong people like to march.
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We deserve better data.
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We need better journalism. Easily debunked claims like “more than a quarter of the population hit the streets” help nobody.
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International media, your hostile agendas are showing. Raise your game.
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Organizers, stop working against the scientists and start working with them.
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Hong Kong people value truth.
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We’re not stupid. (And we’re not scared of math!)
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Many people do not know that Dalgona Coffee originated from a little local cafe located in Coloane, Macau!
In this video I go on the ultimate hiking travel adventure to discover the origins of Dalgona Coffee, showcasing not only the amazing frothy coffee in the local Macau cafe called Hon Kee but I also show the off the beaten path side to Macau. I hike through dense bamboo forests, discover hidden hiking trails and summit the tallest mountain in Macau. I even got to explore a WW2 bunker found near the abandoned shipyards of Macau, China.
The trail I used to hike to the original Dalgona Coffee is called Seac Min Pun Ancient Path with the entrance to the hiking trail located near Hac Sa Beach.
This trail allows you to go up to the mountain trails in Coloane and you can get some great views overlooking Coloane Village. While on the top trail I ventured off the beaten path and had a rather adventurous off trail hike up to summit the mountain Coloane Alto. This gave me some incredible views of China.
Next I hiked down the mountain and headed towards Hon Kee Cafe where I would be trying the original Dalgona Coffee. Before reaching it however on the road heading to Coloane Village from One Oasis and the Panda Park I noticed a old WW2 bunker jutting out from behind the trees. I decided to explore it and it was an amazing hidden gem for sure worth doing if you are looking for things to do in Macau!
Finally I walked down to Hon Kee Cafe and here I ordered the original Dalgona Coffee.
What makes this Macau original coffee so special is that the owner Leong hand beats the coffee until it is frothy and fluffy It is made from instant coffee, sugar, milk and water yet with the hand beaten technique it tastes like the best coffee in the world.
Hon Kee Cafe is where Dalgona Coffee came from as South Korean Actor Jung Il-woo came here for a mukbang and showcased the frothy hand beaten coffee.
From here the Dalgona Coffee trend was born and soon was being created around the world but it all began here in Macau at Hon Kee cafe.
I hope you enjoy this adventure travel vlog and if you would like to see more please let me know!
Thank you Scott Buckley for making such amazing tracks, please check him out I used some of his music in this video:
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