There is one more activity that is a must for many Chinese families in Singapore - To visit the yearly River Ang Bao (春到河畔迎新年新加坡2012大游园) and this year like the previous, has the event held at the The Float @ Marina Bay.
River Ang Bao has already started on 21st Sat Jan 2012 and will last till 29 Jan 2012 (Sunday). Time is from 12noon to 1130pm daily.
Do note that parking in Marina Square will be expected to be very limited and crowded. In fact, we went round and round the carpark and finally parked somewhere with no lots. And since we are already there, why not take some photos?
Here is a map of the River Ang Bao.
The first thing we saw was the "gate". Photo time!
We expected a huge huge crowd and did not bring along our strollers. No picture No talk for the crowd.
The main highlight for this year is the Martial God of Wealth shown here with his tiger. It is believed that the Martial God of Wealth is a symbol used in boosting economy and bringing wealth and prosperity to businessmen.
And as per usual practice, the god of wealth will spread his wealth to lucky visitors that is able to get a piece of "gold". It is actually randomly generated numbers printed on gold colored papers for punters to buy their fix of 4D or Toto. And this just displays the uniqueness of Singaporeans. Wait, I actually meant creativity.
Turning the umbrella on the other side in an attempt to get a better chance of having one piece of the paper land inside! OMG.
With the number of people crowding around, it is quite difficult to get nice clear shots of the many lantern displays in River Angbao. We managed to snug in a couple of shots with Jayden! (with Fu Lu Shou in the background)
There is one thing I did kinda manage to get pretty decent shots of - The Zodiac Animal lanterns, a total of 12 of them!
There is also another place that will interests foodies. The food street. This year, river angbao has over 40 stalls set up with many different delicacies. We were discouraged by the sheer amount of crowd that could be seen and did not went into the food street.
But we did buy some other stuff that is just outside of the food street.
Queued up for this. It was selling at $2 for one or $5 for 3. Being your typical Singaporean, dun waste my effort queuing la, so take 3 lor.
And I also got this Dragon Bread Candy to snack on. It must have been years since the last time I ate one of this. Yummy!
And to wash all the stuff down. An expensive syrup water costing $2.50.No bird nest la. Jelly bits have.
And to encourage donations, the organizers have cleverly use this!
They say you will get good fortune if you can strike the gong with your coin! (Sorry no refund) Simple gimmick but it works! I will have threw my coins into this place if I had any in my pocket!
One last thing, if you are bringing your kids, no worries. They have tons of activities and play areas for toddlers and above.
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