The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) announced on Thursday that 50 barbecue pits at its barbecue site in Hac Sa Beach Park will be available for users on a first-come-first-served basis from Saturday, which means that they will not have to make an appointment.
Thursday’s statement also said that concerning the barbecue pits that reopened earlier this month, the appointment measure will remain in force, for which those who want to use the facilities have to make an online appointment first.
The bureau reopened the Hac Sa Beach Park barbecue site on 16 October. Since then, 55 barbecue pits have been available for users to make an appointment.
The bureau reopened two more barbecue sites last Friday, one in Taipa Grande Natural Park (known as Big Taipa Hill Natural Park in Chinese) and the other in Hac Sa Reservoir Natural Park. Users also have to make an online appointment first to the use the barbecue pits there. Since then a total of 78 barbecue pits at the three barbecue sites which have reopened have been available for users to make an appointment.
Following Saturday’s reopening of the additional 50 barbecue pits in the Hac Sa Beach Park barbecue site, a total of 105 barbecue pits will be available for use, when the appointment arrangement will remain in force for 55 pits, while the first-come-first-served arrangement will be adopted for 50 pits, according to Thursday’s statement.
Thursday’s statement also announced that 12 barbecue pits at its barbecue site in Dr Sun Yat Sen Municipal Park, which is located west of the Barrier Gate border checkpoint, will be available for users on a first-come-first-served basis from Saturday onwards.
Therefore, the city will have a total of four barbecue sites available for use from tomorrow.
The city’s barbecue sites, which are managed by the Municipal Affairs Bureau, had been closed since early this year when the COVID-19 epidemic emerged in Macau.
There are several other barbecue sites in the city that have still not reopened.
The bureau’s barbecue site appointment system has been available to “anyone” since last week, a change from the previous arrangement in which only local residents were allowed to make an appointment.
(The Macau Post Daily/Macau News)
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