Dip the skewer, LOK LOK

The Pulau Tikus market is well known for its line of hawker food stalls which took their place at sunset; after the retirement of the buzzing market hours in the morning.
One of the popular places for hawker food, this place offers more than just the usual Char Koay Teow, which by the way, is pretty famous here.


The main attraction here; besides the Char Koay Teow is the Lok Lok; which practices the art of pushing food on a vertical skewer stick which you dip into the small little pot of boiling water like this


And then you dip it into a plate of sauce before it enters your o-shaped mouth.
There is often 2 choices of sauce in most Lok Lok stalls; the 2 typical ones found will be the peanut sauce and the chili sauce.



By the looks of this supposedly peanut sauce, it looks more like 'oil' in sauce


Their operation hours start from 6pm onwards and if you're there early, you stare at the empty plate with the baby fork


Or the empty table with these wooden board panels sitting on the table


Fret not, for within a few minutes...

Now you see it, earlier you didn't


And you are treated to this wonderful view of all the interesting food filling the plates on the wooden boards

Vegetables and quail eggs


Fresh and huge oysters



Octopus


Jellyfish



Fried rolls with crabmeat


There's even green broccoli on the stick!


Different types of clams




Even cockles

Looking really bloody here


And mantis prawns


Hams


Step 1: Dip them into the hot boiling water


Step 2: Dip into the chili sauce


Step 3: Push the food from the skewer stick on to your plate




Step 4: Let them get to know the sauce a little



Step 5: Put them into your mouth, like duuuh!

So, if you're there even at 6.30pm, the crowd is already starting to flocking the place.


Stay tune....there's a part 2 on the food in the Pulau Tikus market....