A different side of Lim Chu Kang

Now, I have been living in Lim Chu Kang as my 2nd home in most of my 2 year NS life in one of the ulu-est camp in Singapore there. Never quite explored the place until yesterday together with Sheila, elson and kian. We visited Farmart which is a cluster of shops and stalls selling foodstuff, probably local produce like honey, organic vegetables, exotic meat and stuff. There's a couple of restaurants there and the secenery is vastly different from what most urban dwellers are exposed to. Pets and aquarium shops also lined the place with a prawn pond that I heard attracts quite a lot of people at night.

Retro coke in glass bottles from Farmart with elson in background(not the one in green lah!)view from Farmart

We then went to Qian Hu fishery which was the main highlight of the day cos Sheila our driver for the day wants to try the spa fish therapy there. The place wasn't very crowded for a weekend but there are quite a bit of people there already. Fish tanks everywhere with lotsa different kinda fishes, 2 tanks stood out among all:

The ugly fishes
The fishes with numbers tatooed onto them(whoever wins 4D from the numbers here must treat me to a nice meal!)

Then in one corner is the spa therapy fishes(garra rufa fish) in a pond where people pay $10/30mins to sit around and let these fishes eat away their dead skin on their feet. The one most enthusiastic about this turned out to be screaming through the session whenever fishes tried to have their decent meal. It was rather interesting to see those fishes eating away on our feet, rather ticklish, an interesting experience anyway since those fishes normally live only in mid-east countries like Turkey. I guess the conclusion is the fishes prefer a hairy meal since elson and sheila had pretty few fishes 'feeding' on them.

This is my leg btw(hope u guys can see the fishes)

It was Holland V for dinner after that and this is my first time to Holland V actually so an eye opener for me. Dinner at Crystal Jade was pretty normal nothing fanciful, the main course of la mian was very normal, nothing to boast about. The xiao long bao was pretty small with few soup in there though the skin is quite thin and the taste was quite good. The dumplings in chili sauce which I had blogge before when I went to Imperial Treasure at Marina South was quite good. Not too spicy yet the dumplings were quite big. Service was normal though they were prompt to refill our ice water.

Dumplings in chili sauce(we already ate half before the photo was taken)
My spicy beef la main( really very spicy, not nice)

Sheila & Kian ordered the la main in meat sauce

Desserts at my favourite Bedok 85 with 'new' discovery. I found out last nite that they actually sell Ah Balling there, my god after going there so many times I actually dunno abt that! For the info, Ah Balling is a dessert pretty much like Tang Yuan with its glutinous rice balls filled with sesame, peanut, yam or red bean but the base soup is peanut soup or ginger soup. This stall does it pretty authentic and I saw Terrence there, my TJ senior in Swimming and a nus mech eng classmate. Fun day out but can't do it too often, no money!