UNITED SQUARE

I have not been to United Square for some time now and it was a great afternoon yesterday that started with a buffer where I downed a plate of black pepper crabs and countless mount-watering fresh oysters.

There is this amazing booth selling miniature clay items such as a chicken rice booth, a wanton noodle booth, a traditional chinese medicinal hall, slipper orchids etc, that cost a mere dollars to a few hundred dollars. The clay pieces are outstandingly fantastic and are so exquisitely crafted to remind me of the many long forgotten fixtures of our cityscape and the wonderful plants.

Booth selling Christmas items

These are the nicest Christmas socks I have seen!

These are such handsome stags!

Can anyone believe these are miniature clay models?

WEEDS & GARDEN PLANTS

I always admire such weeds, such as Ficus, growing in crevices of walls and so on for their resilience and ability to overcome the harsh adversities of the site.


I also remembering salvaging some of these Ficus weeds and growing them in pots in my attempt to train them as bonsai plants. Well, that was all in the past.


On the other hand, my resident neighbours must have grown these medicinal and culinary herbs and plants, such as Plectranthus amboinicus, Pomegranate, Chili, in the neighbourhood garden. Frankly, I don't fancy edible garden plants because they are usually very boring to look at with its bland green leaves. That explains why I am still very weak in this area. The only such plant I appreciate is the Vinca rosea I posted earlier.