One of the highlights of the market was a section with a large selection of seafood called Oceans of Seafood where you could pick out your seafood and have it steamed or cooked how you liked it which would have been excellent except for the fact that they were clearly understaffed and were not able to take any new orders that required cooking.  I was thankfully able to convince the guy to open a few Fanny Bay oysters for me so I could have something to eat for my birthday lunch!


Overall Pasabella was a big letdown for me.  Sure, if I'm up there again (its about a 30min taxi ride from our place in Singapore) one of these days I might stop by for another try at some steamed crab legs. But otherwise, there wasn't really anything that exciting at the market. It has only been open for a few weeks so hopefully more interesting stalls will appear down the road but my overall first impression was disappointing.


Before we left we did find a stall that was making a fresh batch of paella that smelled amazing.  We decided to order it take-away for our dinner that evening which we enjoyed by the Koi Pond at home with a bottle of Astrolabe Sav Blanc (our favorite wine from our tastings in New Zealand).  It was a mellow low key Birthday at home but fun to spend it with my guy!