China Town

The Streets of China Town are all a buzz with activity right now.  There are over 600 special booths set up selling items to prepare for Chinese New Year.

So of course our family had to go down to China Town and check it out.

The year 2011 is the year of the rabbit and we will post a whole blog on the year of the rabbit but for now, we enjoyed all of the decorations in the streets to welcome in the "prosperous" new year.

There is a high level of energy in China Town and we certainly had fun shopping, there are a lot of good deals to be had in China Town and you can bargain them down in price. 

We also enjoyed some street entertainers.

It really is amazing the amount of people, the cheerful environment and the mass quantity of decorations, Chinese New Year is a really, really big deal in Singapore.

We walked and shopped and then we were ready for some dinner but just where do you eat? 

We came across a "Steam Boat" restaurant and decided that it would be a fun experience for our family.

You order what you want, your protein, vegetables and starch, you are charged per person and not for the amount you order.  They bring the food out to your table raw

and then you cook it in this big pot of boiling broth that is in the center of your table, there are two broths, one is spicy the other bland.

Oh it was so good, we will definitely go there again. 

After we fueled up we were ready to go back out and do some more exploring, there is always something interesting to see, like this meat stall for example.

Uh, yes, those are precooked ducks just waiting to go home with you.  We did not bring one home.

They have a lot of different roadside cooking stalls, this is some soup you can choose to eat, we did not choose to eat it.

Like in many areas of Singapore there are many different temples here are two that we saw today.

Calligraphy is big in China Town, here are some brushes you can buy.

We did actually stop at a calligraphy booth and the boys got their names done in the Chinese characters.

By the time we were done we were exhausted but we really had a great time, it was not too hot, the food was good and the entertainment was entertaining. 

If you come to visit, China Town is a must on the list of things to do while in Singapore.