Sunday, February 3, 2008

7th stop: Market place

Ok this place is cool, the "door" of this building is some antique wood carved door opening...we pass this place to get to the Jalan Ampang studio, but somehow, the direction of the roads did not allow us to get there! Weird!!! So we continue with our journey, trying to find our way out, and tahdah!!! we found the Market Place!!!

 we pass by this place which caught our attention
"COLONIAL ANTIQUE"
wondering what they are selling in there!

nice rolls of old houses!

whampoa dr wet market







the wet markets have changed so much!
i remember in the earlier years, wet markets are usually packed and really wet and slippery!
feels dempy too!
but the modern day one is so much like super market!




I didn't get to follow Xing Yu tour around the market place, there was no empty parking slots, and i had to wait in the car, after i was given the "golden ticket" i was determined not to get another one, because i know i am not going to get Willie Wonka's chocolate factory by collecting "golden tickets"...and i was on the dot, the "parking pontianak" was making her rounds, and whoever that parked at the double yellow line "kena" from her...i even witness this guy, who was standing outside his car, waiting for someone, and he also "kena". Thank God Xing Yu came back on time, in fact, she had to run a little, and we made it out alive! 
(being dramatic here...haha) I think it's the same person who give me the ticket, because everything is nearby to each other, i am sure it's the same person...huarrghhh!!!

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Did You Know:

1) The market was built in the 1920s to cater to farmers nearby who needed a place to sell their produce. 

2) Known locally as the Or Kio market. Or Kio is one of the local names of Balestier as there was a black bridge along Whampoa River that connected Ah Hood (off Balestier Road) to Lorong 8 Toa Payoh thus giving rise to the name.


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