The vendor is making one of my favorite breakfast, rice with sweet bbq pork and peanut. Chinese breakfast is unlike American breakfast, people consume a lot of calories because many are labor workers and burn way more calories. Especially in this climate, you sweat a lot of your calories away. While I was in Malaysia, I did nothing but eat and relax. I ate 3 full meals and snacks in between but did not gain any weight.
This is called the Year Long Cake (in Chinese is Nian Gao). This is made from glutinous rice and is very sweet. When it is fresh, it is soft and very sticky, as it age it hardened. This is very popular over Chinese New Year and can be found in every household. When it is hardened, it is cut into half-inch strips, get coated in flour and then fried in oil. The outside becomes very crispy and the inside soft and gooey. It is heaven when it is warm!
Chinese sausages and waxed duck. The ducks are preserved and need to be steamed because at this stage it is very tough. the Chinese sausage is a favorite of many Chinese but I do not care for the taste of it. It is too salty and waxy for my liking.
Chinese New Years means lots of sweet bread. These are all bread in a variety of shapes, colors and sizes.
Next to food stands, there are stands where you can purchase incense and papers that you burn at the temple and home alters.
You can also buy toys..
Clothes...
Jeans...
At the end of one street, 2 men are selling shrimps out of a bucket. Note that both men have cigarettes in their mouth. FDA will certainly disapprove!
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