Fai Chi Kei is a place located at the Our Lady of Fatima Parish

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, the northern

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 part of Macau peninsula

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, Macau

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, China

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. It was originally a sandbank near the peninsula. The quarter

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 was constructed in there in 1932, then known as the “May 28th Houses” in commemoration of the Portuguese Reformation Day. The two-story buildings stand in two lines on top of rectangular foundations with chopsticks

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 shape, hence the name is "Fai Chi Kei" in Cantonese

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. Later, the original houses were rebuilt to become a cheap housing project surrounded by reclaimed land. Its chopsticks shape disappeared since then.