A Day At The Market

Pasir Panjang Market is something we were told about a year ago when we first moved to Singapore and today I finally made it there

To be fair we were told it is a 24 hour market so our whole family ventured out one night at 11:00 to check it out, the taxi dropped us off and then left and we quickly realized that it is not really a 24 hour market for buying yes there are people there at 11 pm. delivering and organizing supplies but it is wiser to go in the heat of the day when you can actually purchase items.

The market is divided into blocks, dried goods, fruit, vegetables, cold storage etc...

I was with two ladies who live in Singapore one has been here just over two years, Andrea, she was very gracious to tour Dahn who has been here three weeks and myself being here for a year around the market today.

Some of the market reminded me of the Victoria Street Wholesale Center near Arab street.  There are big bags of tiny little dried fish and yes, something does smell fishy around here. Can you see the little eyes on these fish?

I really love shopping at these markets not only do you get good prices on some healthy food, there are also so many sights, sounds and smells to take in making it a total adventure.

I have mentioned before that many businesses here have an altar to their ancestors, the food on the table is an offering to the ancestors.

The sign reads "rain water not safe for drinking" in case you were wondering if you should randomly drink some rain water.....you should not.


There are many sites to take in, here some shrimp are drying on a tarp in fact I saw many different things drying on tarps that later end up in big bags to be sold by the Kilo.

As they say a picture is worth 1,000 words so in the interest of keeping this blog a blog and not a book here are some pictures you will have to imagine the smells and sounds, while you imagine you can imagine that you would be sweaty and possibly thirsty, I know I was.

I find it funny that the truck says "fresh fruit and durian" as durian is a fruit but in Singapore durian is THE fruit, they call it the king of fuit so I guess it gets a special mention on the delivery truck.

I bought a pineapple from this guy for $1.50 SD.

This is a jack fruit tree, I have never eaten any jack fruit but now I know this is how it grows.

These really long beans are like green beans and I am told they are good in stir fry, I think next time, I will be brave and buy some to try.

This stall here is a good vegetable stall, you just pick out what you want put it in a bag and give it to them to be weighed, my bag was a little over a kilogram and cost me $2 Singapore Dollars.  In that bag I had some eggplant, red peppers, ginger, garlic and an onion.  Not a bad deal.

Many items in the market are sold by the kilogram.

This was a very nice day at the market.  Here is all the loot I came home with today, cream of broccoli soup for dinner tonight and I got some fun things to bring home with us for our family and friends to try, like red prawn candy.