Day 2: Chinatown MAF (Part I)

Today was a sunny day. It was hot but the sight of the Sun was welcoming. I enjoyed the long shadows as the MRT cruised under the light of the setting Sun. Outram Park was busy with its usual crowd of elderly people and families. There was a basement shopping complex opening below Pearl Complex (just beside the MRT station), so we decided to take a look. Never mind the entrance staircase looked incomplete; there were people before us walking down it already. So we treaded down the stairs. The space looked sparkling new, & the shops look... unoccupied. It's natural for a newly opened space to have some unoccupied shops right? Besides the lighting & flooring were all nicely done up already. Then the guy walking in front stopped, & turned back to look. There was a couple standing with him; they were holding some paper. The guy looked at us puzzled. I stared back at him quizzically. Lips was already happily hopping down the last few steps while I stopped in the middle trying to make sense of it all. Then it was all so obvious; the couple was with their agent going to look at their new shop! Lol... so it's not open to public yet. Lips hurried up the stairs embarrasingly.

So we contended with browsing through the old shops on the 1st floor. Giordano was having a 20% sale with their GSS price tags, & we didn't see anything nice. Yangtze cinema was showing a Japanese show & some other stuff. It's been getting some attention lately for its promise to show stuff other than "art". It was a peaceful evening in Chinatown.

Beautiful blooming flowers welcoming motorists to Chinatown Mid-Autumn Festival.

There is an animal kingdom where the characters play & flaunt their beauty in the small grass patch between the roads.

The Prince of the jungle birds perched high among its fellow mates.

Ladybirds sunning their wings with the flowers.

"Hurry up or we'll be late for Chang Er's mooncake treat tomorrow!"

A beautiful swan in a stunning pose taking flight.

Next, we went into the maze of street market, where they were selling small yam & a plant part that looks like a pair of black horns (凌角). The yam is supposed to be "in season" right about Mid-Autumn Festival week, and there were many stalls selling them. But what we saw next was stranger:

Radioactive glowing mooncakes =O

Looks like tabletop decorations? No... they are edible mooncakes of a different ingredient. These mooncakes are best eaten cold, & they have a bouncy texture. Still can't get it? They're "Agar-agar", or jelly mooncakes. So special...

It was day-time when we came:
And in a blink it was night:

To be continued...