Gambling Paradise:40 miles from Hong Kong. The Chinese territory aspires not just to be the Las Vegas of Asia but to beat Vegas at its own game.
Last year, 100,000 Americans visited Macao, most of them taking side trips from Hong Kong, and Macao is building luxury hotels with entertainment and world-class shopping to increase those numbers.
Contrasts make Macao intriguing. Its dozen square miles, including Taipa and Coloane islands, is a pastiche of Portuguese, Chinese and Macanese cultures. And, yes, Vegas-like lights and action.
With $5.3 billion last year in gambling revenues, Macao is poised to surpass Las Vegas, which in 2005 had total revenues, including from off-Strip sites, of $7.6 billion. In Macao, 95 percent of the casino action is at the tables. In Nevada, it’s slots — 67 percent statewide, 52.2 percent on the Las Vegas Strip. Funny if you think that locals used to travel to Hong Kong just to go to McDonald’s
I am planning a trip there myself 
… I don’t like McDonald’s anyway…
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