Manchester Day 3: Markets Epic Fail =.=

It is official. 

These English people have NO IDEA what a market is.

Think of markets in Malaysia,

and you think of rowdy stall owners,

noisy yelling hawkers,

and adamant cheapskates bargain-hunters.

Think, the pasar pagi your mum buys wantan mee at

Think, the pasar malam you pak thor at while eating ramly burger

Think, the pasar tani your mum buys the freshest sawi from.
Think, Petaling St market with dizzying arrays of imitation goods
Think, Taman Connaught's famed endless pasar malam.

Here, "markets" are lies, I tell you.

LIES.

Well it started out on a gloomy day

with a walk through Picadilly "Gardens"

which really, it seems more like a concrete park

Where, supposedly,

Manchester's Real Food Market was to be set up.

We expected this big pasar malam-like thing

with endless array of aromatic food...

for us to feast our eyes and hungry tummies on...

Imagine our disappointment when all we saw

were two meagre rows of stalls. =.=

Hello, this is called bluff people okay! >:( 

Although the food looked pretty good,

choices were limited and certainly insufficient to satiate us.

two rows like that mana cukup =.= 

sigh, we kena con.

Anyway, we didn't eat anything from there,

and moved on instead to the Arndale Centre,

In the Arndale Centre,

which was a big shopping mall,

we just jalan-jalan while looking for the Arndale Market

which we hoped was better than the Food Market!

We found it! :)

Well definitely, this place looked like it had more to offer!

:) we were definitely spoilt for choice here!

So Gel ordered a Greek Chicken Salad

Abel ordered some Greek beef stew thing

(I forgot the exact name :p)

I ordered a kebab, which was awesome stuff :)

so awesome, Philip went and ordered the same thing :D

Gel also enjoyed the other half of my kebab!

mmm... Arndale Market wins hands down! :)

So that was our market excursion :)

Quite fail la, actually.

Anyway, next Manchester post on Gel finding true love! :)

Stay tuned! :)