Last night, we had a wonderful outing with the kids at the Clarke Quay. What interest us intially was the Taiwan Food Festival which we saw from the news on Thursday night. Dear and I really found our last trip to Taiwan unforgettable, especially the food. Thus, we decided to make a trip there with the kids.
When we reached there, to our horror, roads and lanes were all over-flooded with people and cars. There was simply no way we could park at the Central Mall. Only then we realised the lanterns display and some Chinese cultural events and performances were held there too. That explains the crowd. After several u-turns and frustration, dear finally found a lot at the nearby Riverside Mall. Phew, guess what, the kids already had a good sleep and rest in the car. They were fully charged!
It was another challenge as we walked through the crowds. However, the lanterns and lightings were indeed fascinating and dazzling which captured both our little 'J's attention. The 12 animal zodiac signs were put on display as well and we managed to capture shots with our respective zodiac signs respectively, as well as took a peep at the fortune forecast.
Haha, choose to believe the good ones and discard the bad ones.
As said, our intial intention was to taste the Taiwanese snacks. However, there was just too much crowd at all stalls and we even had to buy vouchers before we could buy any food. Goodness! Each of us carried our little ones and squeezed through the crowd.
As we were famished, we simply walked into a Thai restaurant, though we knew the prices were above average. But we really didn't want to search for other eateries. Thus, we just sat in the restaurant, waiting to be served. Well, ambience was good. Food was indeed good. Though expensive, but we truly enjoyed the meal and the kids too! They loved the Phad Thai and Pandan Chicken! From a simple meal, we ended up spending nearly $100 for a meal. But dear said it's ok since he's just gotten his commission hehe :)3 cheers for daddy!
We were all recharged with our tummies full. We had Hagen Diaz as our dessert. As we walked, we shared the ice-cream. It was simply family blissfulness. We browsed through the push-carts, chanced upon a performance where the performers were doing a publicity stint for F1 Race. We too joined in the crowd and watched the performance. Seemed like acrobatic performance as the ladies were tossed up and down by the male performers and our kids were really appalled by the stunts.
We bought a colourful 'magic' ball for the kids which would automatically turn small once it touched the ground and both had fun as they kicked the ball along on the ground. We had the opportunity to walk along other shops, but just still couldn't lay our hands on the Taiwanese snacks, though we could smell the 臭豆腐from far. Our dear Jovin couldn't stand the smell though and told us to leave quickly haha!
It was a pity we couldn't taste the Taiwanese snacks but we decided to return another day much earlier at 5p.m (stalls' starting time!) so that we can fulfil our wish hehe. But it was a great night spent after all with the kids. We had a great night taking photo shots with the dazzling lights and guess what, as there was ample space where we waited for the lift to the car park, we had a great ball game with our little 'J's before we left home. It was merely ball-kicking like soccer. Dear and I were the goal-keepers with males vs. females haha! It's been long since dear and I played such ball games! I've video-taped the scene cos I believe this will definitely serve as cherishable memories for us in future :)
