Moon Festival & Other Celebrations

The day started off with the marriage ceremony of Ming & Mel. The church was lovely, they had a huge wedding party, and they put on some finger food afterwards. The food was the usual sandwiches, curry puffs, mini pizzas...etc. The food wasn't that great as they were kinda warm and it's messy to eat finger food dressed in your finest while tettoring on stilettos. One good thing though, was the great range of Asian style swiss rolls they had. The sponge was soft yet kinda solid, the cream subtle and the best thing of all, not too sweet!!

In the afternoon, we made our way to "Homebush West", or without the marketing hype, Flemington, for the Moon Festival. Well I really have to say, this is like the worst street festival ever. When we got there, part of the street was closed off, and we caught the end part of the Tae Kwon Do demo. This guy was trying to break a piece of wood and it took him about 5 tries before he succeeded. The cooking demo was badly organised, basically the guy from my favourite eating place, Ta Fong, started cooking, then he pours whatever was in his wok onto a plate, then people just dive on it, taking away huge chunks on food, with no idea or explanation coming forth of what it is. Well, if you can't beat them, join them, so I pushed my way through the crowd to sample the various fares - I think there was beef, chicken and pork in the mix... Hey free food is yum no matter how you look at it.

I was expecting more to happen, but the rest of the festival resembled the food - a mess! There was a music competition, where little Asian kids were pushed to perform their instrument for the audience. They all looked pretty uncomfortable, dressed in their finest (princess dress & bow ties), but some gave quite good performances. They were all rewarded with a moon cake afterwards, but the biggest sin was actually the terrible MC, who jus left audiences waiting for about 5 minutes between each act.

Sick of the wait, we went off to Happy Chef Cafe to get a honeydew iced milk tea with pearls ($3.00) - it was certainly refreshing after all that taste testing but it was too icy not to mention too sweet because the ice hadn't melted yet.