"hush! Beach Concerts x Urban Sports Wellfest 2025" has successfully concluded. The event drew 27,000 residents and visitors, featuring HYROX PFT, dance and yoga sessions, and performances by nearly 60 Asian musicians, transforming Hac Sa Beach into an energetic stage for music and sports.
What leaps six meters above the ground is not only the lion dance, but the pulse of the city itself. From "The 12th International Lion Dance Championship 2025 – MGM Cup" to "Lion Dance Festival 2025", Barra Square becomes a contemporary stage where tradition continues to move and evolve.
Lion Dance Festival 2025 debuted at Barra Square, bringing together lion dance teams from China, Japan, and Korea to engage with East Asian culture through music, art, and ritual. From safeguarding faith to preserving intangible heritage, the exhibition showcases the spirit of lion dance and its contemporary evolution, enabling culture to be reborn through rhythm.
MGM COTAI’s one-Michelin-starred Aji partnered with Singapore’s two-Michelin-starred META for a four-hand culinary celebration. Aji’s Executive Sous Chef Pan Sihui and META’s chef-owner Kim Sun wove together French and Korean techniques to present Asian contemporary fusion at its most alluring.
The legendary WAGYUMAFIA made a stunning comeback to Macau. Over three days, MGM COTAI’s Grill 58 was transformed into the WAGYUMAFIA WORLD, showcasing the dining brand’s full range of concepts and treating guests to a legendary, mind-blowing wagyu experience.
In the grand finale of MGM COTAI’s Maritime Silk Road Culinary Art Feast, three celebrated chefs, Dong Zhenxiang, Homan Tsui and Yang Dengquan, united in a six-hand dinner collaboration. Together, they showcased the refined traditions of Beijing, Cantonese and Sichuan cuisines, accompanied by fine wines and tea. The time-limited eight-course dinner was available only on August 29 and 30, exclusively in Macau.
The moment a child strikes the drum for the first time, lion dance ceases to be a heritage merely preserved. With one hundred young participants and an entire lion season unfolding from the classroom to the stage of "The 12th International Lion Dance Championship 2025 – MGM Cup", this article traces how lion dance becomes a living culture, sustained through practice, performance, and shared experience.
The third installment of Maritime Silk Road Culinary Art Feast was a sumptuous Cantonese feast crafted by culinary experts Liang Jianyu and Tam Yim Chan. Signature dishes such as the Stewed Beef Brisket with Intangible Cultural Heritage Radish and Braised Fish Maw with Aged Preserved Radish in Chiu Chow Style showcased a fusion of tradition and creativity, available exclusively at Chún.
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