Chinatown Light Up 2008

Chinatown welcomes the Year of the Rat with the annual Chinese New Year Light-Up on Saturday, 19 January 2008 at 6.00 p.m. This year, the Chinatown Chinese New Year Celebrations features a Disney theme, so expect to meet Disney favourites Mickey and Minnie!

We decided to go down to Chinatown yesterday nite.

Winnie the pooh & other Disney characters ~ Their Backside

Winnie the pooh & other Disney characters ~ Their Front =P

The Light-Up ceremony had took place at New Bridge Road, in front of Lucky Chinatown. The lights will remain until 28 February 08, and on the eve and first day of the Lunar New Year (6 and 7 February 08), the lights will remain switched on until 6 a.m. Countdown There will be a special countdown to the Lunar New Year on 6 February 2008.


Street Stalls (The ever-popular Chinese New Year street bazaar) returns, and will operate from 18 January – 6 February 08. These stalls will sell decorations and items considered of symbolic significance by the Chinese. These include decorative gold coins, pomelos, bamboo shoots and the vast array of candied foods.

Here are some photoshots :-

Before we went down to Chinatown to soak in the festive mood, we head to Tiong Bahru Mkt to have our dinner. The mkt had finished it's upgrading, now the place is more spacious. There's a carpark at the roof top too.

Many nice foods in this mkt, Hee...forget to take any photos. cos see my fav Lor Mee...anything also forget liao =P The Lor Mee is the stall on the left side when u come up from the escalator, at the first corner near the hand washing area. Their bowl is yellow colour.

JR also order PoPia and desserts. He also hv his 2nd round...Porridge!! The stall is juz few unit nxt to the LorMee stall, nxt to it is the dessert stall.

Before leaving, i finally remember to take some photos =P This is the new Tiong Bahru Mkt...