Cosa pensano i portoghesi di Macao??

we don’t

Cool place, left something of value there, new flag is better though

We……..

Don’t.

I know some people living there, from my hometown. They don’t complain, guess they have a better lifestyle than otherwise would have in Portugal. They travel a lot, especially Asia of course, but also they have been to the US at least once. Their family members will never travel as much as they do.

Outside of this anecdotal experience, I don’t really have a concrete feeling towards Macau. It’s Peking’s obedient child (unlike Hong Kong), the world’s casino mecca and at the same time a window to Portuguese culture in East Asia. I am aware of the Portuguese culture still being quite present: be it the Portuguese cobblestone, Portuguese toponomy, Portuguese restaurants, Portuguese food, etc. This, with the honorable exception of some [questionable pastéis de nata sold at KFC](https://www.reddit.com/r/lisboa/comments/1iumrjp/pastel_de_nata_kfc_hong_kong/)…

I spend years not even thinking about Macau’s existence, but I’d like visiting it someday

It exists!

I’d like to visit someday. It’s a fascinating piece of Portuguese history where the police dresses like our old police officers, the license plates looked like our old ones too. There’s still Portuguese presence there although not like before.

A difference between Portuguese people and almost everyone else is that we don’t immediately associate Macau with casinos and the “Las Vegas of Asia” image. And even then, in Portugal people will recognise Casino Lisboa but be a lot less familiar with the more recent developments on Cotai.

I like it, give it back.

I think portuguese don’t know much about it now. I would like to visit some day