I originally plan to head out today (it’s a nice Saturday!) but my head was feeling heavy the whole day (don’t know why). Hence, I ended up spending most of the day at home and casually taking multiple brief naps in between. Getting lazy to the max today.
I only left my house today once to get dinner. Since Hari Raya Aildilfitri is less than 2 weeks away from now, it’s the time of the year again for me to check out the annual Geylang Serai Ramadan Bazaar which is within walking distance from my home. It is located around Geylang Serai Community Centre which is near to the Paya Lebar MRT station. The bazaar this year has about 500 stalls (lesser than last year’s 700 stalls) but still attracts huge crowd and is a popular destination for night market food and beverages.
I purposely chose to explore the bazaar way earlier than dinner time at around 5.30pm and the place was already bustling with people. I skimmed around the bazaar to decide what to buy for dinner. I bought Thai fried bananas, mango sticky rice, fried rosti with chilli crab sauce and a coconut juice. (I remember I bought similar stuff from this bazaar last year too…haha!) That’s not a lot of food but they already cost me SGD27. That’s so expensive but understandable due to the extremely high rent for a stall space at the bazaar which made into news every year.
The bazaar sells similar stuff every single year. Sorry Singapore. Night markets in Malaysia are much better with more variety of food and of course way cheaper. Anyway, I didn’t stay long at the bazaar just now because it was way too hot and stuffy inside. Perhaps next time I can go and explore other famous Ramadan bazaars in Singapore such as the Kampong Glam Ramadan Bazaar.