Our little trip down to this street filled with antiques turned me into a photo whore. Well contrary to popular belief. at least I was the one behind the camera and not in front of it! =D Check out the pictures below.

How the street looked like when we first saw it. A whole row of little stalls filled with curious trinkets, many of which seems to be replicated and reproduced and obviously not worth the quoted price.

Wenshan in his Red-Army costume… 毛主席万岁！

Shawn in his weixiaobao specs…. And yes he bought it!

Amos got pulled into trying out an er-hu by some friendly uncles. Created quite some scene as he attempted to play it… a huge crowd formed! Haha! And he ended up buying the er-hu for around S$25… Shawn bought a dizi as well…

POOR HUIYI!!! Not only has she got to put up with seeing 3 prancing guys in boxers, now she has to hear the melodius chorus of er-hus and dizis around the house. O.O

This claws look like they can KILL don’t they? It looks like it can be used for 九银白骨爪… =D

Education

It was really quite an educational trip actually.

The masses of real badges which have survived the ages of time. The uncle who was selling the badges told us a hell lot about Chinese history. He’s actually an avid badge collector, and brought out his private collection to show us! Did you know, there were badges printed that were anti-CCP? Most badges have Mao’s head facing the left. Badges with Mao’s head facing the right were actually worn by anti-Maos! Every badge had their own serial number too… it’s cool. I bought 2!

We had some tea-tasting too… didn’t know all of us were so Chinese-inclined. This cute china guy let us sample about 10 different kinds of tealeaves. Oh I found out Shawn learnt 三字经 (the REAL one, NOT the vulgarities one) the same way as me!!! From that cassette with 小胖 in it… gawds… it was so funny when we both started humming the opening song of the tape! =D

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