even though we went after dinner, we still snacked along the way. so i finally tried the austrian sausages at the roadside stalls in chinatown! yummy yummy! and i love their pretzels too! nice nice!
our brawurst sausage and smoked chicken sausage. oiishi desu ne~!
a very nice ferrai
i would have done a better job taking a picture of the car if it wasn't so close to the road. sigh. but i still prefer a bmw. lol.
so we ended up walking all over chinatown and the newly renovated Chinatown market. frankly, i think the renovation really wasn't as well done as i hoped. i was looking forward to a more vibrantly coloured design - something a bit more chinese like black, gold, red to complement the temple and the shophouses. i wasn't expecting white, bright orange, green and pastel grey + pink.
the wet market at the basement doesn't even resemble a wet market - only raw fish and vegetables give me clues. from the tiles, to the roof and the measurements of each stall; even the customers are complaining about the poor ventilation. sometimes i just wonder if the architect or people in charge of the renovation have ever been to chinatown or traditional wet markets before. but they clearly don't understand what a wet market needs.
if they intended to have the market built very clean and very spacious to welcome tourists then i think they have the wrong concept already. wet markets are supposed to be wet and alittle messy but there definitely will be some kind of order within the messy. that is the beauty of a wet market. now everything is in 'order', it feels like everything is in a messy. what an oxymoron.
furthermore the 2nd floor looked really messy. some parts looked like a maze to me. sigh. or maybe i am too used to the old layout? sigh. i dunno. and we can't turn back time because everything is already done.
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