Kreta Ayer Wet Market - Part 4 (Chicken Stall)

Still at Kreta Ayer Wet Market.........today my trip is to the chicken stall.

At the wet market, we could buy the whole chicken or just other parts of the chickens. These are not frozen chicken but fresh chicken. The black chicken you saw in the chiller are used for herbal soup. Traditional Chinese soup made with Silkie also uses ingredients such as Dang Gui or tang kwei, wolfberries, etc.

From the wikipedia source, the black chicken is known as the Silkie. You can learn more about it from here.

The chickens and ducks are first slaughtered in the slaughtered house and then distributed to the different stalls in the market all over Singapore. The chickens are to be kept in chillers for hygenic purposes and prevent food poisioning. Customers can see them through the glass window of the chillers and choose their chickens by pointing them out to the stall vendor.

The same way of storing in chillers goes for pork, beef and muttons too.

Tomorrow will be a very exiciting post which would show some exotic animals. This is the only wet market that sell these animals.

Blog Problem

Geez, I keep getting this and get booted out of my own blog. Seems like many of my fellow bloggers faced this problem too. Sorry if I dont get to visit your blogs.

I found this on blogger.com

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Some blogs have been mistakenly marked as spam. Affected users are not able to post to their blog and received an email indicating Blogger classified their blog as spam. We are actively working to correct the issue. — latest update on Friday, August 01, 2008

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Source: http://knownissues.blogspot.com/

I got this message from Jim:

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This is Jim, sitemeter is the problem. Google sitemeter down I had to change the code;
August 2, 2008 10:58

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I had to remove sitemeter from my blog temporary and see what happen.

Latest Update: After removing site meter, it seems to be ok at the moment. Geez. Thank you Jim, you are a genius. :)

Kreta Ayer Wet Market - Part 3 (Fish Stalls)

The guy behind this fish stall is giving the look that he dislike me taking photo...hehehe. Glad that I did not took photo of the fishes at his stall....lol or maybe he is jealous I did not take photo of his stall...hahaha

Fishes like the above are going cheap at 11.30 am almost closing time. The fish vendor would chop the large fish into smaller pieces (about 300 to 400 gm) and sold them for about $5 and cheaper if you buy more.

Each plate of the above fishes (numbered about 5 to 6) cost only $4.

Prawns can go for about $6 to $7 per kg.

More photos of the stalls in the wet market coming up tomorrow.....

Skywatch-Fighter Planes

Hahaha....I caught these fighter planes as they were on display for National Day Preview last Saturday.

Sorry for the small image of these planes, they were too fast for me. I could not find time to zoom on them. Was lucky that I caught them on camera....lol. You have to click on them to enlarge.

Now I am satisfied with these photos but hope to be standby mode on the actual day of National Day on 9th August 2008 to zoom on these planes if I am lucky enough....lol

Thanks to Tom for hosting Sky Watch. For other sky watchers, you can go to Tom's skywatch blog.

Kreta Ayer Wet Market - Part 2

Hahaha...yesterday, many complimented that the market looked dry for a wet market. Here is another part of the market which is wet. The reason for being wet was mostly the fish stalls vendors washing the floors because of the fishes they sold. If they do not spray water, the floor would stink because of the scaling, cleaning of fishes they did for customers. The scaling and cleaning of fishes are free of charge for the customers. Now you know why it is known as wet market.

Customers buying fishes from a fish vendor.

Fishes and prawns are cheaper at this market than other wet markets around Singapore.

Best time to buy cheap fishes and prawns would be after 11.30 am. The market operates only half a day. Therefore the fish vendors are eager to get rid of their fishes at cheaper prices around that time before they call it a day at 1 pm.

More photos of fish stalls after skywatch friday.