Yesterday I took Emily to the Bon Odori Festival at Penang Esplanade. Boy! It was sure crowded. Everyone I saw was ready with their bazooka DSLR to capture the event. The street of food store were also crowded but the food was overpriced or tourist price. I got a small bowl of laksa for RM6, tom yam rice for RM5 and Emily had her fish and chip for RM10. I was craving for rojak or pasembor but didn’t find any. Imagine, they even have Sushi King with the conveyor belt on the street store.

Besides food, there were stalls for games. I tell you the games stall were jam pack. People were paying to fish up gold fish. I believed they were given paper net to do that. I cannot see anything because it was too crowded to even peep.

Emily was happy because she bought lots of stuff, like a big balloon, a bubble stick and a LED catapult with arrow. Everyone was launching those LED arrows up in the air. She was doing the same. She played that while waiting for the fireworks to come on at 10pm. The fireworks was spectacular!

After the fireworks, it was terrible because I was stuck in the car park for more that 15 minutes getting out. I was glad when I got to the exit, I used the back gate of a building to get out. Strangely, I didn’t know why so many cars just waited there for so long, the traffic was not moving and they didn’t turn out using the back gate. Some follow behind me and they got free from the horrifying jam.

Emily & I enjoyed it and we will go again next year!