Day 36 - San Gong Lu Posted by SuperJuniorF , Thursday, April 8, 2010 at 10:05 PM, in

After getting to sleep in after so many days, when I woke up, I had the urge to explore a street that I have been going frequently since I stepped into Wuhan. San Gong Lu is the street loacated nearby my dormitory. It takes less than 5 minutes to reach there from the doorstep of my room. San Gong Lu sells many food, drinks, accessories and other daily neccesities such as mattresses, shampoo, toothbrushes, pens etc. However it is most known for it's food. At San Gong Lu, there are many food stalls selling variety of food such as fried rice, fried noodles, porridge, vegetables, soups, hotdogs, paus and many more.


Usually in the morning, not all the stalls at San Gong Lu will be open as most stalls sell barbequed food. I was told by the WUST students that in Wuhan, the locals there love barbequed food. They love it because it is delicious! I tried the barbequed halal satay and I swear it single-handedly beat Singapore's satay.



During lunch time, San Gong Lu is usually very packed. Many students from WUST wll be rushing to buy their food. This is a usual scene even in the school canteen as the food are of similar price. In Singapore, food sold in school are usually cheaper than food sold outside but this is not the case for China.




Reflection

There are not much street places like this in Singapore. Singapore is so developed that there are many fast food restaurant franchises all over the island. However the night markets in Singapore, well known as the "Pasar Malam", is some of the things that keeps Singapore interesting. By having the "Pasar Malam", we can preserve the old culture of Singapore selling street food and also selling other things. Places like Geylang, Little India and Chinatown still have these kind of stalls as these places are tourism attractions. Modernizing these places too much will cause it to lose it's cultural feel.