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| Little India
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| Singapore's Little India looks like India, though with more cars. It
even smells like India, assuming you subtract out India's diesel scooter
pollution and human waste.
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Somewhere around here I found the place where all the gold/jewelry
dealers reside.
| A less-busy side road in Little India.
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| Abdul Gafoor Mosque
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| The Abdul Gafoor Mosque and its Indian-Muslim architecture.
| Inside the mosque. Observe the writing on the walls and the beaded
chandeliers.
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| Sri Veeramakaliamman Temple
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| The Sri Veeramakaliamman Temple (Hindu obviously) with its myriad
statues above.
| A panorama of the inside of the temple, including its numerous gold and copper (?) statues.
| Some statues above one of the doorways inside the temple.
| The central shrine, for Kali.
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| An altar to Sri Periyachi, the goddess who punishes men who take
advantage of women and punishes spiteful, mean women.
| A movie of people praying around one of the temple's many mini-shrines.
| A row of statues in outdoor alcoves.
| More statues on top of the building, not easily visible from the street.
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| Tekka Temporary Market, and lunch
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| Fishmongers in Tekka Temporary Market.
| Butchers.
| Clothing vendors.
| Half the booths and seating in the cooked-food section of the market.
(There's another aisle exactly like this one.)
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| Allauddin's Briyani (biryani) is famous for, well, you guessed it.
| The biryani wasn't what I think of when I think biryani--a complex mix
of spices--but the light, fluffy, fragrant rice and well-cooked, moist,
easy-to-rip-apart mutton made up for it. I understand there's a
difference between the complex biryani made for major celebrations
(these are the kind we get at restaurants in the U.S.) and everyday
biryani. This is good, everyday biryani. I was consistently disappointed with the biryani I had in India. Now I understand why. They were trying to do everyday biryani, but weren't doing it as well as this.
The biryani was served with mild pickled cucumbers.
The accompanying sambar (soup) was also good.
| Lau Pa Sat Sugar Cane Juice.
| A movie showing the sugarcane being freshly squeezed to make my juice,
just as every drink stand vendor does in Singapore.
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| My (out of focus) sugarcane juice. I was worried it would be like
lemonade. I needn't have been.
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| More Little India
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| A variety of different shophouse facades.
| More shophouse facades.
| One of several small temples I found that isn't mentioned in my guide
book.
| Inside.
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| I like the second-story balconies on these shophouses.
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| Leong San Temple
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| The ornate Leong San Temple (Taoist). I took this picture at a high resolution so you can see all the details.
| Inside.
| The statues overlooking the fountain in the room out back.
| The ancestral hall, also in back.
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