Night it up~

On July 11th I attended Night It Up. Similar to Taste of Asia. Night It Up is a night market run by Power Unit at Metro Square. A stage is provided for performances and several dozen booths are placed in horizontal rows. The booths consisted of smelly tofu, teriyaki, squid, bubble tea, trinkets, and many other foods and games. I was invited by my friend Letty whom I met during a badminton tournament. When I arrived I met two of her other friends Louise and Johny. We walked around without doing much because I had not figured out what I had wanted to eat yet. However, Letty and Johny bought stir fry ice cream. Stir fry ice cream is basically a fried waffle type thing with ice cream mixed with chocolate sprinkles and such over a marble slant. It costs $5 per ice cream.


Later on, Letty and Louise both bought a coconut from this random stand for $3. In less than no time I found a stand sponsored by T&T that sold coconuts for $2. I don't actually like drinking coconuts but I bought one anyways just to rub it in. I told her "Oh wow this coconut is so delicious I can totally taste the deal. I love my $2 coconut. But it's ok I understand why you paid more. It's for convenience it was much closer to you and you didn't want to make such a strenuous journey." The T&T stand was actually only four booths down from the other booth they purchased it from. Mandarin Badminton, Creative Zing, and Ten Ren also had sponsored booths. They did not go to make money necessarily, they went for the advertisement.

Later on, I found this magically store hidden near the stage no one had gone to because it was positioned awkwardly. At the front it was cluttered with Gundams and Digimon, and the back walls were filled with PSP and DS accessories. However the real deal was on the side wall, which was hardly visible to the public. It was a bunch of phone charms that I actually collect. The charms are relatively expensive if you were to purchase them regularly. The Voodoo Dolls are regularly $8 at Ones, the three Color Bears are regularly $7 at Pacific Mall, and the e.Sai monkey and Mario mushroom are also $5 a piece. That would give you a grand total of $39 for six items. The price they were selling them for was 5 for $10 and the Voodoo Dolls were 2 for $3 so I split the cost with a friend. I got all six for a grand total of $11.50. I was overjoyed to find such a great buy. The rent for a booth at Night It Up is a little over $400 for the two nights which is pricey. Many good businesses make over $500 and those that are not so popular go into deficit of close to $400. Therefore, everything there is usually very over priced yet I found such a great deal.



Afterwards, I was very happy and finally began my food journey. I ate bacon wrapped cherry tomatoes, a Chinese style hot dog, seaweed salad, teriyaki beef, fried eggplant, fried squid balls, and fried squid. I wanted to line up for takoyaki since my friends lined up for smelly tofu, but the makers of the takoyaki were extremely slow and the line seemed endless. I had it before during a different festival and they were delicious. Later on we went to T&T nearby and we got sushi and mango pudding for a cheap price since the end of the day sale for sushi is usually amazing. On my way home I met this guy called Anson who was playing with his yoyo. He had been yoyoing for seven years and he was amazing. The speed of his string tricks were crazy. He made his one meter yoyo string seem endless. Turns out, we have much more in common than I knew. The lesson I learned for the day is that if you have high expectations for everything you'll only be disappointed, but you should always show interest and be curious. Curiosity makes everything more interesting.

Currently listening to: Sara Bareilles - Gravity

down to earth~