Thursday, October 31, 2024

Deepavali 2024 - Travelling Duck

Midvalley Megamall

Beautiful Deepavali Kolam

This year, Deepavali and Halloween fall on the same day, today. There were non stop complaints about Halloween decorations were better than Deepavali’s. Argument was that Halloween is not in our culture so Deepavali should be given priority.
I observed in social media that all major malls did up beautiful decorations for Deepavali. So was it the smaller malls that were the problem? I really think that it is not compulsory for any mall to decorate for any festival. They do it for sales; to attract tourists, to be in social media. Free marketing. That’s all. Nothing more. 






We decided to have an “atas” lunch on this Deepavali day just cos we had to be at the mall for personal reasons. 
Visited the Travelling Duck to have their roasted duck platter with their famous Irish Silver Duck. 
The orang putih duck, I call it!!!










 

Ciqikou Ancient City

Ciqikou Ancient City aka Little Chongqing. 
Ciqikou means porcelain harbour. 
In the Qing Dynasty, this town was famous for producing porcelain. 
This towj has 12 streets and its architecture was from Ming or Qing dynasties. Streets were paved with stones. Plenty of teahouses here offering Sichuan opera.

If I ever get to visit Chongqing again, I would spend a whole day here to explore its 12 streets!!!
















Fat fat pork



That statue… MOVED!







Beef roti






Sweet potato noodles


Tofu

Pork

Dumplings




These are the paths I would love to explore!





A looooooooong queue to buy Chongqing’s most famous snack!