Chinatown!

chinatown
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Thought it was supposed to be a S03K outing with amanda, jasper and jian yang. in the end, jian yang had a hot dance date with agnes. so it was jasper and the 3 shoppaholics! the 3 girls went on a shopping spree and spent almost 200 bucks each.. oh man... i definitely cannot bear to spend so much money at once. if i ever did that, it's either i'm really down and need major retail therapy or i've suddenly become the finance minister.

so i was late... as usual. and was led into a wild goose chase. first i went to chinatown point, but they changed venue cos the food place was closed. n it was changed to lucky chinatown. i din know where it was so i crossed the road to see what's the building across. realised it was people's park complex... and lucky chinatown was actually on the same side of the road i came from. so grrrrr... in the hot sweltering weather... i climbed the overhead bridge and entered the air-conditioned lucky chinatown with much relief. only to realise there is no food place there!!!

finally realised... it was at the chinatown complex with the hawker centre at the 2nd floor, the cheap cds on the grnd floor and the wet market at the basement. good thing i know my way around chinatown. chinatown certainly brings back great memories. the austrian sausages. the cooling sweet coconut. yummy!

so we had a food feast at the hawker centre. sinfully oily fried dumplings, followed by grease laden chwee kueh and ended off with 2 huge claypots of rice! jasper with his new goatee ala pierre png look was the chief stirrer. mixing and stirring the rice so that we can have even black sauce rice. turned out great! thought we couldn't finish the huge pots of rice but the 'fan tong' me supped all the rice up so there was nothing but the chao ta crispy rice left stuck to the sides of the pot. everyone was too health conscious to eat the carcinogenic burnt rice... hahaha... medical students.

suddenly, liana came up with the idea of 'zhong ji mi ma'. oh no... bad memories. the one who guesses the chosen number has to eat up the super salty salted fish on its own!!! argh... and lynn had to remind us that eating too much salted fish causes nasopharyngeal cancer. so the record stands at
amanda -2
me -2
liana -1
lynn -1
jasper -1
hahaha... but i think jasper ate the largest last salted fish there was! so without water and rice left... he was suffering until the sweet coconut juice came to the rescue... hahaha.

guess what... i saw the lady i gave 10 bucks to at the hawker centre! she had a tall lady in tow... looked like her mother and she definitely looked healthy and well. sigh... still hoped she was telling the truth.

so we ended the day just sitting down, slacking and then strolling down kadayanallur st. if you think that's in little india..... NO! it's actually in chinatown.

i suppose lynn, jasper and liana's blog should have more interesting accounts and more photos!

chinatown.... great place....