Vesak Holiday

Going to Chinatown on any Chinese related holidays or events will definitely be everything except quiet. The buzzing town was filled with crowd, every head turn I saw not 10 but more people approaching from different directions. This is a new temple called "Fuo Ya Shi" in Chinese or Buddha Tooth Relic Temple (Singapore). The Temple is dedicated to the Maitreya Buddha, which means 'The Compassionate One', and also called 'The Future Buddha'. There is a chamber that houses sacred Buddha Tooth Relic (shi li zhi) and also a pagoda of 10,000 Buddhas.
Sights of Chinatown, trishaws parked along the temple.

What are these people queuing for? They even have "bouncers" (haha) for maintaining the human traffic in order.

Wah! Free gifts? Look at the queue and the number of people there!

Well everyone is curious to visit the temple with displays of sacred Buddha tooth relic. Some how Jef and I didn't join in the queue as a year ago before the temple has completed construction we already got a glimpse of them in temporary set up tents.

Looks to me as if people were queuing for a new disco opening, ah ST James or MOS cannot beat their numbers!

Frontage of the temple.

This place offers free vegetarian food and also exhibitors to display their items.

Char kuay teow, yummy!

Darling queuing, not for the temple but for fulfilling his cravings of Lee Chee Guan Bak Kua!

Later that night we headed down to Oasis at Kallang for Teochew porridge dinner.

This Teochew porridge restaurant has been there for many years, I vividly remember coming to this place when I was still a child. More than ten years already!
They served a whole tub of sweet potato porridge for every table, generous!

Our simple dishes.

We were given a great table, window seat facing the river.

Can you tell what is this? That night was full moon, so tried to capture her beautiful image down using my dummy camera.