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I happened to be at Lido for lunch with a couple of friends and took the Hazelbridge Way exit on our way out. While heading towards the exit, there was a Land Rover 2 cars a head of us and a van (can’t remember what make it was) that’s on the opposite traffic direction. I couldn’t see who signaled first but it appeared both of these cars were waiting for the same parking spot.

Once the parking spot became available, the van pulled in. Now this had happened to me before and I was furious. I think I cursed the driver for a good 2-3 minutes while I storm off to look for another spot. However, the driver of the Land Rover took another way of dealing with this. She pulled up behind the van (thank god for that because now we can finally move towards the exit, was stuck there for about 2 minutes), got out and opened the van’s passenger door and started yelling at the driver inside. I couldn’t hear what was going on but from her expression, it’s probably not “please give me my spot back”.

By this time I was at the exit waiting for a chance to pull out and from the rear view mirror, I saw she got back into the Land Rover and to my surprise, the van pulled out. Now I’m really curious as to what she had said to the driver of the van. However, I think I would probably do the same if I was in the same situation. Who knows what she’d do if I don’t give her the spot?

Ok now as for the name. As my friends and I watch this unfold, we were thinking “Hey lets take a video and post it on YouTube!” Obviously we had watched too many of those videos from Hong Kong posted by people that happened to witness “interesting” scenes, like the guy doing some kung fu thing on the MTR and the boy who wouldn’t give up the empty seat next to him on the bus. The videos have mostly been named by the location plus either “boy”, “girl”, “old man”, “grandpa” … etc. So as a joke, we thought we’d call this incident the “Central Square Girl” or “Lido Girl”, lol.

Now that our cards are printed, time to hand them out when ever we can since we have 1,000 cards each to give out. Haha.

Along with my side projects and the wedding planning, I’ve taken the time to finish designing personal cards for Al and myself. Both of us don’t have business cards from our current work place and we’d like to have our own for networking purposes. So here are the designs (both front and back):

Here's my card. P E T stands for Phone, Email, Twitter

Here's Al's.

I know the design looked very similar, that’s because after Al looked at mine he said he wanted one for himself. What do you guys think? I think the drawing of Al looked more like him than mine. Probably because my hair isn’t exactly like that. Hehe can’t wait to get it back from the printer.

So far I’ve been to the Night Market more than 4 times already since they opened on May 21. Every time I go, I’d see one or two new vendor at the food section. There are old favourites which I’ve been counting on, such as the place for “wheel cakes”, Xin Jiang BBQ, Korean Street Food where they sell fried whole potatos and Dragon Beard Candies. This year there are a few notable additions such as the Roaming Dragon, BBQ Whole Cuttlefish and Sumo Bites. Well a picture is worth more than words so lets get on with the photos (be prepare to do some scrolling…and drooling) :

Dragon's Beard Candy - We waited 15 mins to get ours.

Making of the Dragon's Beard Candy. It's actually just like cotton candy but has peanut fillings.

Wheel Cakes - one of my favourite snacks at the Night Market.

Wheel cakes in the making.

Wheel cake with custard filling. Also comes with chocolate, peanut butter or red bean.

Vietnamese Dessert - it's like a coconut based drink with different fruits. Very yummy.

Some of the fillings for the Vietnamese Dessert.

Xin Jiang Man BBQ - The best Xin Jiang bbq in the Night Market!

Sumo Bites - one of the many new vendors this year. Have yet to try it but looked promising.

Potatoes from the Korean Street Food stall. Prepare to wait at least 10 minutes to place your order.

Another BBQ place. Didn't catch the name but they had bbq quail eggs and it's near the stall for Sumo Bites.

List of their bbq menu. Looks yummy don't they? Bacon wrapped asparagus and quail eggs.

Here's what they look like. The 3 on the left are the bbq quail eggs wrapped with a strip of bacon and drizzled with Japanese mayo. The 1 on the right is the cheese filled fish cakes.

Hong Kong Waffles - for me it wasn't even close to the real thing

Roaming Dragon - located at the back of the food area. You can't miss this unique looking truck.

Roaming Dragon's menu. I've tried almost everything there except for the fried rice balls.

Korean Tacos from Roaming Dragon.

Pork Belly Sliders from Roaming Dragon. Very yummy.

The average price for most of the food is the same as last year. If I were to have dinner at the market it’d roughly cost me $15-20 which isn’t bad at all considering I get to try a lot of different foods. To save money (so I can eat more food instead of spending it on drinks) I usually don’t buy drinks like bubble tea at the night market. Plus I feel that it’s nothing special as I can get that any where. However, I must stay that if you’re in need of a drink after eating all the above yummy food, your best bet is either the Vietnamese Dessert drinks or Roaming Dragon’s Lychee & Basil Lemonade. The bits of lychee adds texture and sweetens the lemonade while the hint of basil gives it a very refreshing taste.  I heard that Sumo Bites has a ginger cooler. I’ll give that a try next time I head down.