Have you been to ION orchard lately?

Friday evening... weekend's around the corner. What do we do? We pop over to ION orchard. Mistake #1 was not driving there. We thought, since it is a new place, it's bound to be foreign to us and we'd probably have a hard time to find a parking lot. So hail a cab we did, but Ah Sui and Beekee felt car sick by our incompetent taxi uncle, who already declared when we got into his cab that he doesn't know the place.

It also didn't help that he was a 'jerky' driver... starting and stopping... and I lost count the number of 'could have been' accidents which we mildly avoided.

Anyway, when we got there, boy was ION big... and expensive. The part we got off was the high end fashion label branded stuff. It felt very much like the Times Square in Hong Kong. And I felt abit out of place... and crowd wasn't big either, which is surprising. There was suppose to be an official 'turn on the big screen plasma' at 7.30pm, but we had forgotten it after trying to figure out how to comb the mall.

Then by chance, we found this little alley... "ION station". Could it be a new MRT station? We decided to venture it and lo and behold, it was quite the paradise and it's where more of the 'normal' stuff like Mango, Charles & Keith etc were located. This area was much more crowded, and it is also where the ION food hall was located... and that's where Ah Sui and I hit paradise.

We loaded up the calories and fat with hakka abacus bead, yong tau hu but the fried kinds, fried carrot cakes.... we then proceeded to sin through the night with local desserts at the food court and then drinks at Xin Wang char chan tang. By the time we checked the time, it was about 10+pm. And we haven't finished exploring....

BTW, if you want to know, parking after 5pm at ION is $4.50 per entry. Yes, traffic is indeed 'bizarre' but if you're driving, it's not going to help either.