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Colorful Deepavali banners strung across every pair of streetlights across the four-lane Serangoon Road, quite a sight to behold!
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Fresh flower garlands make for a nice welcome!
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A grocery store packed with snacks for the Indian new year.
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Shoppers on Buffalo Road.
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I'm not sure if bananas are supposed to be a big part of the celebrations or if it's because they just are.
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Making fresh garlands from jasmine flowers.
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Campbell Lane has been closed to traffic for about a month now, and is packed with stalls selling Deepavali paraphernalia.
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See, more bananas.
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We wandered down Dunlop Street to find more produce stores and stores selling things like prepaid phone cards and sundry items.
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Saris don't fit anymore?
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Take notice!
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Giant plaintains. Bananas.
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Are we going bananas yet?
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Mr. Dosai! Outside Komala's, Little India's first fast food joint for vegetarian Indian fare.
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The Sri Vadapathira Kaliamman Temple, a homage to the goddess Kali.
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If I was tall enough, perhaps I could actually appreciate the detail of the sculptures.
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The best buck-thirty I spent all day was on this baby coconut which I slurped up in one gulp.
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Jackfruit, or nangka. One of my all-time favorite tropical fruits. They're gigantic, too.
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The rind is rather soft, despite a spikeless-durian appearance.
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RED plaintains.
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I had lunch at Kandahir's, where rows of steaming curries awaited.
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From my window seat, a view of the temple still.
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Mutton briyani set meal, with a papadum and a cucumber salad in yogurt dressing.
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I realized I didn't have any silverware and waited to ask a frenzied waiter for some.
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Then I realized, I was in Little India, stupid! I should eat with my hands!
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Ahh, dessert. I forget what these are called, but at the Tiffin buffet on Devon in Chicago, I could eat about six of these suckers after a more-than-full meal.
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The dessert table, with Indian donuts (and more inviting fried ball stuff next to it).
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More treats.
