The Honger Sisters

Peggy and I got our Honger on and spent the whole Saturday doing Honger stuff. She even got me posing in those Japanese photo booths; taking cutesy “kawaii” pictures. I couldn’t help myself though. The horns came out instead of the cliche double victory hands.

Fun girl time included shopping at Aberdeen Centre and Parker Place, eating dinner at a Hong Kong cafe and then heading to the Summer Night Market.

Nearly 8 hours of shopping, eating, shopping and more eating. We are ladies of leisure, dontcha know?

Maybe it was because the night market opened on a holiday weekend, but it wasn’t as crazy as I thought it would be. A lot of booths hadn’t even moved in yet and the ones that were there were selling nothing worth purchasing, unless tchotchkes, slippers, toys, cheap jewellery is your thing.

But one part of the open air market that was heaving with people was of course, the food stands. Thank goodness it was an open air environment. Walking in such a heavily packed crowd would be a claustrophobe’s worst nightmare.

It was too bad Peggy and I already had dinner, otherwise we would’ve went to town. She did however, insist that I try some dragon’s beard candy (cotton-candy with peanuts in the centre), crispy buns made from 12 secret ingredients (a hit each and every year) and fresh baby coconut milk.

The big hits at the food fair with the line-up that went on forever, were the bubble waffles and the fried pringle-shaped potato chips on a stick. The potato edge would be rolled in seasoning and topped off with drizzles of ketchup.

Other yummy goodness:

Shrimp skewers

Pancakes

And you can betcha this is what I’m going to try next time: spring rolls (like crepes) with blueberry blast filling.

I recommend checking out the night market for the eats. The food alone is worth the trip.

By the time I got home at 11pm, I was walked out, talked out, stomach filled out.