THE OLD MACAU
Sep 26, 2017
3 minutes
Text by CHRISTOPHER DeWOLF
There’s a scene in the deliciously cheesy 1988 miniseries Noble House in which Pierce Brosnan, playing a young Hong Kong tycoon, tries to impress an American love interest with a weekend yacht trip to Macau. As they land at a sleepy pier and cruise along a waterfront road in a black-and-white Rolls-Royce, it looks as though they’ve been transported to some serene location on the Mediterranean.
Today, Macau is anything but serene. The casino boom
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