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5 customs and traditions in Macau — what they are, and how to take part without causing offence.
A Portuguese-Chinese creole culture with its own language, Patuá, now critically endangered.
Black and white calçada laid by Portuguese craftsmen, still maintained across the old squares.
A-Ma and Na Tcha festivals, with lion dances and opera stages built from bamboo.
Two rival traditions — Portuguese pastel de nata and the Macanese version developed here in 1989.
Gambling is the economy, and the surrounding lending and exchange trade is where the risk sits.
