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| Breakfast
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| The putu piring stall from which I bought a breakfast snack.
| The putu piring assembly line. (I got to watch them make them! :> ) Rice
cakes steam in the triangular vessels at the far end of the line. The
near end of the line is the filling for the cakes; in between them is the
shredded coconut topping.
| My three putu pirings. These soft, light rice flour pancakes, filled with
a sweet mixture, reminded me of pancakes with syrup. The salty shredded
coconut helped cut down on the sweetness.
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I also had a slice of papaya (not pictured).
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| Chinatown
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| Chinatown. These decorations over the road are always present; they're
not special for New Year's.
| Along Pagoda Street, although I've taken this picture before,
I decided to take it again--I love the look of the shophouses and the line
of lanterns.
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| Lunch at Maxwell Hawker Centre
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| One of the stalls in Maxwell's Hawker Centre open on Chinese New Year Day.
We bought lunch here. Because the award-winning specialty dried mee sua
wasn't available, we had to get the regular fishball noodle soup.
| My fishball noodle soup (before mixing): noodles, dried fish, pork (the
white stuff), fishballs, and chilies (which were so strong I had to cut
them with vinegar). Di Yin loved the freshness of the fish balls.
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| River Hongbao Festival
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| Walking toward the River Hongbao Festival.
| Closer to the festival.
| A panoramic movie of Marina Bay's waterfront. It starts looking toward
downtown (one of those tower has my company's office). Two-thirds of the
way through, it zooms in the part of the River Hongbao Festival with the
Chinese New Year's displays. (This is the only part of the festival that
extends into the bay.)
| One artist at the festival painted figures out of sugar. (Yes, those
dragons are made entirely out of sugar.)
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| A large dragon made entirely of sugar.
| A sign describing the history of the art of sugar lamp making.
| Shadow puppets. Such detail!
| A giant New Year's display along with, if you look carefully, many other
displays in the distance. (They're only ten or twenty feet tall and thus
harder to spot.)
Di Yin thought these would look good lit up at
night; we returned the following
week to see and photograph them after dark.
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| In the carnival part of the festival, kids getting tossed around in
floating bubbles. Excellent.
| The (Tanyoto) Sichuan food pavilion.
| A history of Tanyoto, which ran the pavilion.
| The dudes making jaozi (potstickers).
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| One jaozi up close. Definitely good.
| House special pancakes, one sweet (crumbled sugar inside), one salty
(pickled vegetables inside). Pleasing.
| The guys frying bing.
| A movie of the guys frying bread. Look at how fast the guy rolling the
dough moves.
I didn't buy any.
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| The main item of my dinner: dan dan noodles. I like spicy food (which
Sichuan certainly is), but this was very spicy and also sour. It may have
been too much for me -- my eyes became bloodshot.
| At night, the carnival from the distance.
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| Late Night Snack
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| For a late night snack, I had a vegetable dish (I realized I hadn't eaten
any vegetable all day) and a water chestnut juice (not freshly made).
It was refreshing, similar to the
one I had in Hong Kong.
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