Eat Street Market

Almost a weekly affair now, Mr. C and I went down to Eat Street Market at Portside again this evening.

We got there at about 4.45pm today. We were supposed to be there at 4pm, just when the Market opens so as to avoid the crowd, but I was having a really bad migraine for most of the morning and afternoon so I stayed in bed to rest.

Some views of the Market:

The first dish we had was the Hungarian garlic bread from Langos. This is our newest favourite!

 It's called the "Hungarian Special". Basically it's a piece of deep fried flat bread slathered with garlic sauce, and then heaps of cheese is finely grated on top then sour cream and sweet chilli sauce is added.

IT IS SO FREAKING GOOD.

Our next must-have dish is a bowl of fried calamari with lime and sweet chilli sauce. This again is one of our favorites. The calamari is battered with salt and pepper prior to frying. It's really tender and sweet on its own, unlike some other kinds of calamari where it can be rubbery, stringy and bland. 

But at $12 per bowl, it is pretty overpriced.

We tried some fancy organic drink today, it was called "Hawaii Bombay" and contains an exotic mix of goji berries, hibiscus, and infused with mango, banana and berries or something like that. It sounds really weird but tastes really good. It's nice reddish-pink, clear drink.

We next had some chicken satay skewers from a stall that had a red banner shouting "Singaporean street food". The chicken skewers were pretty tender but they were made from chicken thigh meat which I don't like. The peanut sauce was also too sweet. Overall, not very authentic and not very impressive.

Before we left, we bought our usual bag of kettle corn from Popcorn Man! I love this popcorn, it's sweet and salty at the same time. I wish the cinemas here would sell them instead of having just salty ones. I think these ones would fly off the shelves if they were made available more readily.

Mr. C and I have tried making these at home ourselves, but we were really only successful once. It's quite tricky, the timing, to pop the corn with sugar without burning the sugar first.

Night began to fall as we made our way home. The market at night looks really beautiful, with fairy lights illuminating the place. It has a nice buzz and energy and is very eclectic. 

More and more people know about Eat Street Market now. It didn't use to be this crowded and entry used to be free too. It now costs $2 per person to enter. Hopefully they won't bump the price up anymore.