Saturday, February 20, 2010

Serikin Bazaar, on the Malaysian/Indonesian Border


(Picture: A hawker, selling "Nasi Padang" using a push - cart)


(Picture: A crispy tapioca chips'stall, which is popular amongst the locals going there)


(Picture: A section of the busy Serikin bazaar, the time when this picture was taken a little bit past 8am)


On the 14th Feb 2010, together with Uncle Harold AKA Pipitmanchal, Donny AKA Temenggung & Rebecca; was spent in Serikin, Bau.

We left KG quite early after 7am that morning taking along Uncle’s BMW. I have not been there for quite sometime and that morning was a very wet morning due to the rain since early morning.

The trip was a quick one (less than an hour from KG) as not many people are up and about that time probably due to the cold and wet morning.

And it was on the 1st day of the Chinese Lunar Year, the Year of the Tiger!

By 9am, the crowds were slowly coming in, even in tourist buses.

Maybe due to the festive season, the prices of goods sold there are quite “expensive” some even higher than those sold in KG, quite surprisingly!

You must bargain hard to get a good price for the items. As for foodstuff, those are reasonable, more or less like what we have here.

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