I was worried that it would rain on Buddha Day. And when I finally awoke, my nightmare had come to life. It was absolutely pissing down! I stayed in bed a bit longer, thinking it would stop, but it was not to be. So! Clothes, mittens, hoodie, non-waterproof sneakers (fail) and one missed train later, we arrived at the Buddha's Day festivities and pretty much had the whole place to ourselves!
Layers of gluten wrapped around a little stick and deep fried until crisp, genius!
Next up was my favourite snack of the afternoon, consisting of skewered chicken pieces wrapped in lemon leaves. Certainly a new flavour sensation for me, which I hope one day to replicate. Are these real lemon leaves? Tempted to go out and chew on one but I dont want to look like an idiot walking the streets trying to locate a lemon tree for leaf chewing purposes when they'll probably just taste like bitter gross.
Next! Appears to be a dainty little Peking duck wrap, beware you could easily eat a million of these little cuties!
A surprise sweet was next, offered up by my housemate Rebecca who had other missions to attend to, thus was desserting early. These were little gelatinous sesame balls filled with red bean paste. It looks like a tiny demented mouth, whispering sweet nothings at you, does it not? It even has a little pink spit gurgle. Yum.Next up! Bizarrely naked dagwood dog. These dogs on a stick actually had real life white "fatty bits" in them. Disturbdog! It's really being held very tenderly in this photo, isn't it?Okay, we're finally on the homestretch, one last salty and one last sweet to go!
Deep fried oysters? WELL OKAY! Who am I to resist your greasy charms.
And last but not least (not least because I actually ended up visiting again the next day while I was at work! YEAH! DOUBLE BUDDHA DAY!) was coconutty rice balls filled with saaaalty peanut butter. Two worlds collide. One amazing.
I had to violently shove these down my throat to get them down. That's how full I was.
3 comments:
I am drooling over your deep fried oyster and longing to be held like your dagwood dog.
cool. Yeah the Saturday was a bit empty. Glad you enjoyed the Vegetarian food on offer! :)
You should've headed for one of the tented events. Or in particular the one named "Vegi-licious", which was a Vegetarian cooking demonstration which ran over both days. (It was located a little bit past the food tents along the river.)
the Taiwanese style BBQ sausage is so yum. I want more!
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