Showing posts with label china town. Show all posts
Showing posts with label china town. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

China Town - Singapore

So after Haji we took the train to China Town where we got a different perspective to our night time visit.   It also happened to be such a happy and sunny day, so we really scored :) The little drom store is located in China town and I happily spent way too long inside having a lovely chat with one of the owners Antoinette (you may remember me mentioning from the playground series). I also dropped by the lomography store and scored some expired film - it's currently in my camera and I'm super interested to see how it turns out!


It was fun spotting some tiles as well around the area, I actually brought my mum a badge of a tile design that the little drom shop produced but I can't seem to find that tile series on the web to show you, it was awesome though :)





The photo of Ben was actually taken outside of china town but I liked it, so I've decided it fits in here :)


One of my favourite signs in Singapore was the no durians sign featured on Singapore trains. Ben and I assumed it was because the fruit is so spikey and therefore a dangerous weapon :p but we found out, amongst lots other interesting trivia from our guide in Langkawi that the ban is because durians are so smelly! I'm really sad I didn't try one now :( Anyway back to China town!

I loved all the pretty lanterns from the mid autumn festival :)

More tiles :)


and always something interesting if you look up!

I really enjoyed china town and I'd recommend dedicating a few hours for a wander, if you're planning your own Singapore itinerary :)
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Saturday, October 19, 2013

Singapore's Lantern Festival - Opening Ceremony


So after our huge day of playgrounds, we hang out in little India and then took a train over to China Town for the lantern/mid-autumn/moon cake festival, opening ceremony. We were horribly underprepared though and got there just as the nights entertainment was wrapping up, we still got fireworks as well as running after and trying to chase down this cool looking dragon but mostly found ourselves wandering the market stalls who seemed close to wrapping up.


I did manage to track down something I'd been excited about - a pig in a basket - which, from what I can gather and what I tasted are the bits left over from the moon cake, a pastry similiar to soft gingerbread. What I appreciate is that they come in a cute plastic basket (which I kept!) and they pastry is moulded into the shape of a pig! The moon cakes are a pretty big part of the festival and every shopping centre we went past had stalls dedicating to selling them in beautiful presented boxes - much like how they present desserts in japan.

(I'm going to take a guess that Psy is fairly big in Singapore!)


I'm still sad we missed out on the actual lantern part of the lantern festival but it was nice to get a glimpse into a Singaporean Festival :)



 Singapore is nearly wrapped up and then it's onto Malaysia!
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