Chinatown
Chinatown was a lot of fun. The hawker foodstalls are fun to walk through and see the vast array of exotic food and produce. The food area had its own little shrine with incense in amongst the chaos.
We were entertained by a 'free for all' line dancing display, in 37degrees heat, in front of the Buddah Tooth Relic Temple. We were sweating like mad but the locals were all getting into, jeans and stetson's on display....whoowee I would have melted in jeans!
Chinatown was a lot of fun. The hawker foodstalls are fun to walk through and see the vast array of exotic food and produce. The food area had its own little shrine with incense in amongst the chaos.
We were entertained by a 'free for all' line dancing display, in 37degrees heat, in front of the Buddah Tooth Relic Temple. We were sweating like mad but the locals were all getting into, jeans and stetson's on display....whoowee I would have melted in jeans!
Our hotel turns out to be in the now quite 'hipster' Keong Saik area near Chinatown. Chinatown grew from the settlement known as the ‘Chinese Campong’ designated by Sir Stamford Raffles in his 1822 Town Plan for Singapore. Some of the traditional shophouses now sell for upwards of S$20million, yikes.
The shophouses now are mostly groovy restaurants, bars and boutiques. I imagine the area goes off over the weekend..but we will be in Langkawi so will miss the action😉
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