Lau Pa Sat Festival Market

We popped by the "Lau Pa Sat Festival Market" for dinner this evening. The place has changed tremendously since my visit to town, probably a few years back. The market is now also divided out into areas for restaurants and shops. One could find a few Italian and Indian restaurants, shuffled between the corners of the market. The market is still kept very much alive by the satay and ze-char stalls at the end nearer the SGX Centre, if you know what I mean. One particular area inside the market was sliced out and managed by "Kopitiam" - and there are some good finds within the Kopitiam area! Char Kueh Tiow, Seafood noodles, Hokkien mee just to name a few. The Hong Kong food stall manages to attract my attention with some pretty good juicy and deliciously roasted char-siew, duck and steamed rice dishes. We settled for the stall and tried the "steamed rice with pork cooked with mushroom & water chestnut in bamboo", which was not too bad. Only complaint is that the cooked rice was a little too soft and the sauce was not enough for me. The mushroom pork was well steamed and complemented well with the crunchy water chestnut. I would rate it average but so much for hawker food !