Saturday, November 04, 2006

nz taiwan festival

following auntie Julie and Zhang Ma's invitation, we went to the nz taiwan festival on 4 Nov.


Comments of the pics: 1st row: Snapped a pic of a balloon with the taiwan flag;more flags , the stage and its decors with vintagey looking things, like chinese fan, cupboard that my grandma uses;
2nd & 3rd row: a wedding sedan! -that reminds me of the wedding sedan me and jake sat in shenzhen :P ; the gifts delivered during the wedding; handicrafts that taiwanese primary students make;sheep ,apple and fire engine shaped tv. they look so cute, but ain't cheap and the screen is a bit too small for me. taiwanese rolls; candy floss machine; more 'cakes' by the Bakery king stall;
4th row: the 'bread lady' selling the bread; (there were heaps of stalls there) a poster of the event; throngs of people trying to get to the foodstall and into the hall to see the events and tradestalls;puppet stand, (doesn't it remind you of chinese opera ), jake buying taiwanese produce (sesame candies etc) ;ornamental lion head;me holding the taiwanese sausage (my favourite of all the food I tried) ; cooks busy preparing the food.

the foods we tried: curried noodle with pig kidney(*YIKES) -this dish is certain not for me. It loses to msian laksa hands down. i could be biased but i just didn't really like the taste of it.
the 'pulut panggang' thing is pretty good, rice cake with mushroom and egg -this one is average but i think the rice cake made by the ah poh in sibu pasar malam is better. the 4th pic is a meatball thing -totally NOT my thing!!! the bamboo shoots really stinks...

all in all, I rather enjoy the event, the shows were nice - dances, singing, display of cultural things. the taiwanese sausage has made the trip worthwhile

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