recreating Boys Before Flowers

One of the things that I was excited about in our trip to Macau is that I get to do a scavenger hunt on the shooting locations that they did in the Korean version of Boys Before Flowers. Without further ado, here are the hits and misses from our hunt, with the original screencap at the left and our attempt to recreate (or at least, strike a pose that won't let other people think we've gone nuts) the scene.

HITS

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Airport. You already got a shot of at least recreating one scene the moment you're in Macau. This is my "estimate" of where Jun Pyo was standing when he confronted Jandi and Jihoo. (Was tempted to do the amazing crying scene but there are a lot of people around)


Senado Square. If you don't have much time to go around Macau, going to Senado Square is already a jackpot venue to see most of the filming locations. We went there since I know that the St. Paul Ruins are there, but I was surprised that they also used the location to represent all the streets of Macau (hence I almost screamed when I saw that egg tart stand).

Sidestreet where Jandi and Jaekyung walked around. Only realized that we passed through this when I rewatched that episode. *awesome*
The main square where Jihoo and that street musician played using the latter's guitar. This is the main area to enter Senado square.
St. Paul Ruins - the structure itself is great. Eds and I tried to let go of the umbrellas to really capture the scene but the weather (and the steps) are too hot.
Who would've known that the egg tart stand was just in Senado Square? I didn't imagine that we'll find the exact stall in Macau but it already identified itself as THE stall and used it for added marketing.

The Venetian. Used as the setting of Jun Pyo's hotel venture in Macau, there are definitely a lot of photo-op opportunities here. Though I would like to recreate more scenes in the hotel we're either too tired or the place was barred from picture-taking.

These are our first photos outside the Venetian, we're just too excited at this time, I think it took us 20 minutes before finally entering the hotel This is where Jihoo and Jandi were waiting before they leave for the airport (which was delayed due to Jihoo's Chinese friend entering the scene)
Overlooking the gambling floor of the hotel. Actually an attendant reprimanded me from taking this picture (I think it's forbidden to take a picture of the gambling area), which was weird since I was focusing on the ceiling and there are a lot of other tourists not far from me also taking the same pictures.
This is the post-break up scene where Jandi was getting all sad. Suddenly shot this when I saw the underwear store, LOL.
AND of course, here's the bridge used for the break-up scene. Take note there are a lot of bridges over the area, so we really made sure we got the correct bridge and tried to make our respective poses even though there are a lot of people passing by.

MISSES

So here are the misses, wherein we saw the location but we weren't able to take a picture due to various reasons.


Gondola dude -- I have this twisted hope that I'll see this guy in the hotel. But when we went there, there's only one Caucasian guy while the rest of the boatmen suspiciously look like Filipinos, hehe.
Other white dude -- I saw a handful of performers in the area but I didn't get to see this guy, which was too bad since I really want to replicate this picture.
Zaia -- we also got to watch the Zaia performance of Cirque du Soleil, which Jandi and Jihoo also watched. Unfortunately, cameras are not allowed inside the theater.

Mask Store -- This was my biggest frustration of all! We saw the actual shop (thank God for Eds' sharp eyes! I lost hope finding it since the hotel was huge). You can just imagine my inner squee when I saw the actual mask that Yi Jung (Kim Bum) wore in this scene. Sadly, pictures are not allowed (I suggest you practice using your camera phone and pretend you're texting, hehe)
Oh, but here's a mask that Daene took in another store (not the store used in the series). I think it's also prohibited to take this one but the masks are just so pretty...

There are other locations in Macau used in the series but we only had one full day in the area, and most of it was devoted to watching Daene's bungee jump at Macau Tower and Zaia at the Venetian. Hopefully if I come back again I'll get to go to the other spots :D