Skywatch Friday - Geylang Serai - Hari Raya Puasa Part 3 - Street Light Up

Ending my post on my walk along Geylang Serai with these beautiful lights along Geylang Serai. If you happen to be in Singapore, drop by and see these lights and bazaar. The Hari Raya Light-Up & Celebrations at Geylang Serai will be held from 30 July to 7 September 2011.




A short video on the street lights in Geylang Serai.

Hari Raya Puasa is on 30th August 2011, here wishing all muslims Selamat Hari Raya.

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Geylang Serai - Hari Raya Pausa 2011 - Part 2

Continued from my walk along Geylang Serai, I saw these beautiful decorations fronting Joo Chiat Complex.

Love these butterflies deco.

Very interesting to see what these stalls are selling.

Rows of stalls selling floor carpets and they are not cheap either. Some cost more than a $100.


Beautiful clothes on sale.




Ready made curtains. Sometimes it is cheaper to get those ready made curtains than to tailor made. They have all sizes of curtains on sale here.

Geylang Serai - Hari Raya Puasa 2011 Part 1

We are a multi racial country and this month the muslim will be celebrating Hari Raya Puasa. Different ethnic group in our country have their own little town which sell mainly the familar stuff of each ethnic group.

For the Chinese, we have our Chinatown, the Indians have their Little India, the Eurasians have Orchard Road and the muslims have Geylang Serai but really we actually shop in each other town and all over Singapore.

On August 30th, the muslim will be celebrating Hari Raya Puasa so Geylang Serai is suddenly filled with huge crowds busy shopping for the festival. Even non muslim went to Geylang Serai to soak in the atmosphere and to shop too. I was there to eat my favourite nasi padang in the hawker centre. :)

Saw these jars of cookies at the stall reminded me of my shopping in chinatown during Chinese New Year.



Besides cookies, there were cooked and delicious food at the Bazaar.





Tomorrow I will share photos of non food stalls at Geylang Serai and Friday Skywatch I will share the light up of the streets along Geylang Serai.

Skywatch Friday - Street Light Up at Geylang Serai

Geylang Serai is all set for Hari Raya celebrations with its streets lit bright and colourful. Hari Raya will be on 10th September 2010.

The street light up stretches from Changi Road to Geylang.

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My World Tuesday - Joo Chiat Complex

The Hari Raya Puasa is next month on 10th September 2010.

Every year Geylang Serai will be lighted up to celebrate the occasion. This year the light up will be from 6th August to 10th September 2010.

Even the malls in Geylang Serai are decorated too. Joo Chiat Complex is a very old mall and I used to come here to make/renew my passport when the old immigration department was at Joo Chiat Complex. But now the immigration department has shifted to Lavender Street.

As Geylang Serai used to be a malay village, so the goods sold here are mostly catered to the muslim population.

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Sky Watch - City Plaza

Near the Geylang Serai Market, is this very old building called City Plaza. I remembered I used to visit the shopping centre when I was a teenager. Now the shopping centre is very old and not many people visit this mall except Sunday.

The colour of the building really make it stand out of all the buildings in that area.

I went into the mall but it is so different from during its hey day. Gone are all the nice boutique that I used to purchase my clothings from. Some of the clothings in there now are for wholesale and mass produced.

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Geylang Serai Market - Food Centre and Shops

On the second storey of the market is the food centre and other shops selling clothes and other household products.

There were so many people in the market and food centre, it was so difficult to capture a shot without people in the background.

When I was there, I had to wait for sometime for a seat to have my lunch.

Clothings,shoes and other household products are so much cheaper in here than in the malls.

Also a great place just to browse around.

Geylang Serai Market - Wet Market

It was so crowded in the market. Everyone busy stocking up food for the week ahead. The first thing I noticed when I step into the market was the fragrant smell of the spices.

There are so many different types of spices available over here. Nowadays when I cooked my curry chicken, I dont have to grind all the different types of ingredients and spices, I just get the spices from the market.

The best thing about market is that you can get recipes from the stall holder. All you have to do was to let the stall holder know if you intended to cook curry chicken or curry fish or curry vegetables and she will get the right type of spices for you and a few tips on how to cook too.

Fishes in this market are so much cheaper than those in heartland.

This stall is selling all the dry goods and take note of the coconut grinding machine in the background.

Stall selling beef, mutton, etc. No pork in this market cause majority of the customers are muslims. This market sell mainly halal food.

This market has so many stalls selling different types of food.



The new market is very spacious and big and the floor is not wet anymore.

Tomorrow I will post the food centre that is located above this market and the food is yummy.