Part of the Ramadan celebration here is the Night Market or Night Bazaar. This one is held at Geylang Sarai, and it's huge and amazing! There are tons of booths with all kinds of food (almost like a fair), plus ones selling all sorts of things. Clothes and sandals were the most frequent, but they also had a huge area for carpets and even an area for cars! (Cars are insanely expensive in Singapore -- over $100,000 for something like a Toyota Corolla -- because the government charges a high fee for the privilege of driving here. It is a small island, after all, and this is their way of keeping traffic manageable. So, it was a bit surprising to see cars at a bazaar!)
I'm quite glad not to be part of a religion that requires things like headscarves, but some of the the traditional/fancy dresses they had for sale at the market were absolutely gorgeous.
The food choices included fried squid (sotong) on a stick, rainbow bagels, and potato twists on a stick. There was also a drink called a watermelon volcano (served in an actual watermelon shell). I didn't try any of that, but I did have a delicious kebob and a crepe-like dessert with corn and nutella -- not a combination I'd have thought of on my own, but it was delicious!
The food choices included fried squid (sotong) on a stick, rainbow bagels, and potato twists on a stick. There was also a drink called a watermelon volcano (served in an actual watermelon shell). I didn't try any of that, but I did have a delicious kebob and a crepe-like dessert with corn and nutella -- not a combination I'd have thought of on my own, but it was delicious!
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