Teochew Festival 2016 @ Sands Expo and Convention - Teochew Food Street

Last Monday, I went to the Teochew Festival held at Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre with my parents and grandmother.  We bought our ticket from Ding Tai Fung at a price of $9 per ticket and they gave us a free recipe book.  

Do remember to use the ticket to get a rebate of $3 off from the food you are buying from the food Zone (美食区) and Teochew Delicacy Zone. In addition, visitors can also enjoy full day parking at Marina Bay Sands at only $8 on weekdays.   

To encourage cashless transactions, only NETS payment is accepted at the fair.

The food street features 20 vendors comprising of homegrown Teochew eateries as well as food vendors from Shantou and Chaozhou, China. 

 My mum saw an elderly man with 3 tickets in his pocket while he was paying for his oyster omelette and she told him that he could use the tickets to get discount.  He wasn't aware and thanked my mum for telling him.  3 tickets could get him a rebate of $3 x 3 off from the total cost which means that his oyster omelette cost only $1!  :)  The stall vendor will take the tickets away from you at your first redemption so you cannot use it for another time.

 Fried oyster omelette ($10), the stall with the longest queue.  The oyster omelette was crispy and had many small oysters in it.  It went well with the chilli.  Fish sauce was provided too.  Heard that the traditional teochew way of eating the oyster omelette is to dip it in the fish sauce.

Teochew Char Kway Teow ($5)

 Surprisely, a meatless char kuay teow dish could taste so good!  I would recommend this dish as it had great "wok hei"!  This teochew char kuay teow is not the black ones that we normally have.  Instead, it resembles more like Penang Char Koay Teow with its white appearance, but with the prawns/egg replaced with Cai Po and diced kailan vegetables.  

Braised Duck rice ($10/ set).  If you are looking for a substantial meal, you may want to order this.  I was lucky to get the big drumstick  The duck meat was tender and well-braised.  Even my grandmother had all praises for it.  

  These kuehs were quite hard so we didn't really like it.  2 pieces for $3. 

Tang Yuan

Other kueh...

 Dad bought two big popiah at $5 each.  The popiah had some minced meat in it too.  As we were all very full, I took a small piece and tabao the rest back.

Teochew Festival (潮州节2016)
9 to 18 December 2016, 10.30am to 9.00pm daily
Sands Expo and Convention Centre Level 1 Hall A
Cost: $10 (Standard Ticket),  $9 (PAssion Card members)

Website: http://www.teochewfestival.com/

Snoopy Run 2016 @ Singapore Sports Hub

Pauline and I had signed up for SNOOPY RUN this year.  This was the third fun run that we had taken part together.  The first two were "Meiji Run" and "Hello Kitty Run" last year.  Another friend of ours was supposed to join us as well but she was too occupied and forgot to register.

Race pack collection was held at the Sports Hub Library.  I went on the second day and there was no queue.  Pauline went on the first day and she queued almost an hour to get her race pack!

 The yellow Charlie Brown carrier which I brought along for the fun run.

 We had arranged to meet at Stadium MRT at 7.30am so that we could join the 7.50am or 8.05am run.

 Starting point...  We started at around 8.05am.  As this was a fun run or should I call it a fun walk, there were many children as well as quite a number of elderly.  When the "race" started, nobody ran and we were stucked at our starting point for around 5 minutes before the line started moving.  I am not complaining... as we had paid so much for this event, definitely most of us would like to take more photos during the run.  This was not a timed race so it doesn't quite make any sense to treat this like a competitive race and you would miss out all the fun of taking photos with your friends and all the PEANUTS' props.  

 At around 8+am, we were surprised to see so many elderly practicing Tai Chi here.  That's something really encouraging, to see our old folks engaging in healthy lifestyle.

 We walked past the old Kallang Airport.

Before reaching the finishing line, we stopped here to take photo with the giant snoopy.  There was a long queue (expected).  We didn't queue and just made do with taking photo with it from the side.

After that, we queued for "Picnic with Snoopy and Woodstocks".  This photo was one of our favourites and we instagrammed it and got it printed out for free at the Sports Hub Library after the event.

Snoopy Run's finisher medal (Front)

 Finisher medal (Back)

After we had collected our finisher medal and certificate, we went over to the main stage area to see whether there were other activities/ games.  There was an emcee on stage and was very proficient in both Mandarin and English.  Later I found out that he is Jeff, a Deejay from YES 933 FM.

Look!  Who is coming up the stage?

Lucy!!!

 Jeff asked her to give us 10 different poses.

 There she goes.... Pose #1

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After Lucy, the next mascot who made an appearance was of course SNOOPY!  

 Snoopy also gave us 10 poses.  Pose #1

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 And they hugged each other.... ohhhh... So sweet!  Haha...

There were some games and lucky draw before the whole event ended.

We didn't go back immediately after the event ended as we were not in a rush.  We went to Cheers to get some drink and then walked over to the Sports Hub Library to print our instagram photo for free.

 Pauline and I also downloaded this app "SPARK ASIA" and sent them 10 photos to try out for fun.

 After we got our photos, we realized that most of the props were still around and there wasn't much queue already.  Thus, we took our own sweet time to take photos with all the props!

By the time we finished all our photo shoots, it was almost noon and we were both famished.  Instead of going over to Bras Basah for lunch (initial plan), we decided to have our lunch at Kallang Wave Mall.  After lunch, we went to Singapore Philatelic Museum as there was a "PEANUTS" exhibition.