Are there any Macau rental sites? Help a student!

iloveapplejuice · 4 days

There are some good online listings, but as you have seen the stuff on the web is higher end mostly. There are some websites that have the lower end rentals, but those websites are all in Chinese, that is why you are having a hard time finding them. Macau really has a much smaller English speaking population than places like Hong Kong or Beijing. Mainly as it is just a much smaller place, only about 500,000 people, compared to Hong Kong which is about 10 times more populated and much more international.

If you are a student, are you planning on attending Macau U? Do they not have student housing? I have a friend who lives in the U of M residence hall. It is the only place here he could afford. The really cheap places, like less that $300 US dollars per month might shock you when you see them, they are not very nice.

The other issue you are facing is that Macau does not really operate in English. The main language is Cantonese and Portuguese, with more and more Mandarin, English is being added in some situations as a courtesy to international tourists, but business and government stuff is mainly only in Chinese and Portuguese, unless you are dealing with a company based in an English speaking country.

Do you have a friend who can read and write Chinese? You could have them search the internet in Chinese and you would find a lot more rentals. Here is one website with a lot of rentals, as you said mid-range to high end places.

You can try and read the Chinese listings by using google translate and translate the whole website. One local Chinese board for rentals is http://macau.jinti.com/zufang

Pasted in to Google translate it is: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fmacau.jinti.com%2Fzufang

But really to get a place you would be better off to be here and have someone introduce you to someone with a cheap place, stay in a low end hotel for a week or two, or see if you can find a friend of a friend. I think there is a youth hostel here for student travelers. Just being here with some cash in hand will make closing a rental much easier, the lower end units will be very hard to rent form outside of Macau, before you get here, unless you can speak, read, write Chinese.

Redbulbul · 1 month

I like it! I have never been to the rainbow colored station.

Needs_more_ranch · 1 month

Yes, I read the first page then thought "what a nice short article", then saw the other 7 pages, really thorough. That article really paints a great snapshot of Macau as it is now, and where it is going, the author is very well read and did a lot of research on Macau and history.

sinofile · 1 month

I know the real estate lawyer interviewed in the article, she said the NYT called her many times to get the details on the story. Interesting that Macau real estate is making the NYT.

espada0 · 1 month

Wow, interesting that we have chased some similar and slightly odd things around Macau! I also find the sealed wells interesting, and the house where I live now has a sealed well in the building, next time you are in Macau message me and I can give you directions to go see it, it is behind the A Ma temple.

When I first visited Macau it was CNY 2004, year of the Monkey. I walked around the city for hours and hours, I felt like I had landed on an alien planet. The food, buildings, language, habits, traditions were all so completely new and foreign to me it was intoxicating. Even just back to 2004 it was much different here, slower and more disconnected from the world somehow. Macau seems to be getting "faster" and it is getting faster, faster each year. I am not really a part of the new "casino rich" layer of expats, what I do does not have a rich and famous type paycheck, but I do enjoy living here a great deal. It is now my new home for sure. When I last tried to go back and live in the USA I had reverse culture shock until the day I moved back to Macau.

OK, I will keep my eye out for the tower climb, I remember seeing the poster.

Also, your reccomendation is one of my favorite places for lunch! I have some family that works for the Port Authority at the Moorish Barracks, that restaurant is their staff dining room. It is only a 5 minute walk from my house. The price cannot be beat for the service and food they serve. I like to go and see the Macau Portuguese staff of the office there having red wine with lunch, as an American having a drink with work lunch seems so sophisticated and somehow taboo, I guess I will never fully shake my puritanical American roots.

espada0 · 1 month

Ha, OK, I like your Macau challenges! Next time you are here try to see if you can take free casino shuttle busses to get everywhere you go the whole trip, without paying for any real buses (you will have to do a lot of walking!)

I love the Wynn fountain too, it reminds me of my favorite thing in Las Vegas, the Bellagio fountains.

I am from the US, but I live and work in Macau now. Came here in 2004 to open the first US casino and got hooked on Macau, it is a very interesting and unique place I feel.

espada0 · 1 month

No they never opened the Tang Dynasty building, it just sits and slowly sinks back in to the mud.

If you want to try a nice arcade area next time, with clean restrooms, and a McD's nearby, go in the back entrance of the Sands Casino, across from Fisherman's Wharf. This is the back entrance you take by goin up the super long escalator, next to the employee entrance that faces the cultural center. at the top of the escalator you will find a family area, lots of cool games from a Japanese arcade supplier, photo booths, McD's, and the only KFC still open in Macau!

Careful Sookybabi! That area near the old Yaohan is a little grungy, safe I think think, but better to no hang out there alone. I have heard that story from other woman who have been casually walking around Macau. I have a friend who used to live here, she is tall, blonde, blue eyes, looks a little Russian (whatever that means), and she could not walk 10 feet around the casinos without getting "how much".

Haha, yes, clean public toilets in Macau are a rare bird, try the casino lobby next time, they are ultra-clean at Sands, Wynn, Galaxy, Venetian, etc...

Cool art on your blog!

espada0 · 2 months

Had to be less than 12 years ago, it opened in 2005. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macau_Fisherman%27s_Wharf

When it first opened it was busier and attracted lots of lookey-loo type tourists. It also had many resturants and shops, but they never did enough business to make much money. The restuarants have all slowly closed up with a lot of the shopping. There are just a few places left open inside, and it has turned in to a kind of ghost town, used for elaborate wedding photo shoots. It is really a creepy atmosphere there now.

newage321 · 2 months

All you could ever want to know about it can be found here. http://www.home-barista.com/grinders/owner-experience-with-pharos-manual-coffee-grinder-by-orphan-espresso-t17714.html

Needs_more_ranch · 2 months

It has a sweet spot of around 200-250 grams, max around 300. But, I do not mind, as I love to roast, and if I roasted 500 to 1 kilo at a time I would only get to roast for 30 minutes a week befire I had several KG's of coffee getting old.

The good thing that the Quest can do that other home roasters cannot is it can run continuously like a shop roaster, no cool down phase. Each 250g batch takes 14-15 minutes, fill,roast,dump, repeat. After one hour, about how long I want to mess with roasting, I have got to try 4 different roast levels, and sometimes several different beans, a single origin and an espresso blend.

I really just roast for myself, as the coffee drinking community here in China is small. If I was doing 5-10 KG each week for family and friends I would do the KKTO, it is an awesome big batch home roaster idea. http://koffeekosmo.com.au/

Needs_more_ranch · 2 months

Have you looked at using a bread maker and a hot airgun? I hear it makes roasts that are as good as if not better than any commercial home roaster. I have friend who set one up with a used bread maker and a borrowed hot air gun, total cost $50. AND NO STIRRING!

Needs_more_ranch · 2 months

I am an American boy in the Middle Kingdom, ಠ_ಠ, I am in China, that is why I am looking to grow coffee here. In Hainan, an island called "The Hawaii of China".

Needs_more_ranch · 2 months

I am looking for land to plant an Arabica tree plantation in China, want to grow my own beans someday! I am not sure what comes after that!

Needs_more_ranch · 2 months

I had the factory in Taiwan include an extra thermometer, there are two pre-drilled holes and they both just screw in. I also have two factory designed thermocouples that screw in to those same holes, instead of the thermometers, and connect to my digital multi-meters. I will use that to connect it all to my laptop and monitor the roast with the RoastLogger software.

Once I get all the gear hooked up and do a long roast session I will post another gallery. It is hard to photograph roasts and bean color, every time I try it here on Reddit everyone says the beans look over-roasted, but it is the color not coming through for some reason, always look darker on here. The beans in this pic are a well before second crack roast.

Needs_more_ranch · 2 months

I am really impressed, it is dead simple to roast. I was worried it would be really complicated and require the touch of a master to roast some beans, but I literally opened the crate, plugged it in, followed some guidelines from a website, and had fresh tasty Colombians a few minutes later, well about an hour after letting it warm up, and roasting the beans, and running around the house screaming, "I AM THE ROASTMASTER!"

Needs_more_ranch · 2 months

Just waiting on my new grinder, and then I am done for a while! http://imgur.com/a/zDWZH

Needs_more_ranch · 2 months

http://imgur.com/a/zDWZH Really having fun with the Quest M3 roaster!

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