Chinatown

Both Friday & Saturday nights were spent in Chinatown. It was much more chaotic than the previous week. Everywhere was people mountain people sea (人山人海).

Friday I was there with just my delicate half for she had a mission on hand. Few nights ago, she was there with her family & they bought a dress for dear little Jomaine but it was way too large for her. Thus she was assigned to make the trip down to exchange for a smaller size. It was sheer disappointment when the lady boss of the stall said she had no stock for the size that we wanted but it will come in the next day. She advised us to give her a call before we go down again. So my lady saved the number in her mobile & we left the stall.

Ericia : So where do we go now? (with the look that we should continue exploring the rest of the stalls)
Me: Anything lo. See where you wanna go lo. (with that reluctant look knowing exactly where we will be heading)

Ok, I have to admit it wasn't that bad afterall. We bought 2 coconuts before roaming around. The juice was real sweet while the coconut flesh was kinda tasteless. Perhaps it would have been much better if we had eaten the flesh before drinking the juice.

There were a handful of stalls selling some taiwanese candies or sort but we stopped at this particular stall to check out the merchandise. One lady was standing on top of a chair behind the counter & claiming she's selling the real stuff, the best, the original from Taiwan. A couple next to us asked if they could try. The lady asked if they like that particular flavour, if they don't then she will not open it up in order not to waste. She said we can't try much, we can't buy much & she will not sell much or else there won't be enough to go around. Kinda cocky ain't it?

My delicate half tried a strawberry flavour & she was quite pleased with it so she started checking out all the flavours available & bagged quite a lot of it. As she was paying for it, I thought I heard $16. Ok, 2 kgs worth of taiwanese 果冻 for $16 was still acceptable.

As we reached the car & while I was warming up the engine, she asked if $36 for this little bag of candy was kinda expensive. Kinda? It's atrocious! I thought it was $16? Obviously I had misheard the price. But since it is a once a year affair, we just laughed it off & took many pictures of it. 45 glorious 果冻 for $36.

Saturday night was spent in Cow Car Water (牛车水) again but this time round it was with our buddies. We met up with 欢 & 包 1st as 鸸 was still at work but he joined us later. My better half managed to change the dress for a smaller size & we bought an aromatherapy set for $8. It comes with a burner, 2 normal candles, 1 green tea flavoured candle, 1 bottle of essence, 1 little porcelain tile & 1 test tube of green tea flavoured cone-shaped joss. A rather worthy buy I should say.

Will we visit Chinatown again before Chinese New Year? I seriously don't know but I have that feeling we will...