Canberra Food and Dance Spectacular 2006 in pictures.

We went to the Phillipino stand JB, I’m pretty sure it was called the Sari Sari stand or something, they had Phillipino flags up etc

I’m pretty sure i saw phillipinos too

LG, did you ever meet the last bellydancer on the right in your previous life ?

I’m sure she used to be one of us…

I think the point may have been that Chinese, Vietnames and Filipino cultures extends somewhat significantly beyond a stall selling beef in black bean sauce and combined fried rice.

BTW, for the BEST ever vietnamese spring rolls, go to the vietnamese restraunt in Page, they put on a great feed but the spring rolls are ‘puff’.

Not sure why big groups such as the Chinese, Vietnamese and Filipino communities are not represented.

I counted at least three Vietnamese stall, a large chinese, a smaller chinese and and a taiwanese stall, I didn’t see any Filipino stall though.

Damn! I missed it.

Although after last years marathon effort – an attempt to sample a beer and a grilled sausage in a bun from every country that claims grilled sausages in bun and beer as its national dish, its probably for the better.

Personally I would recommend it as a lunch activity.

Hmm looks like during the day is much less crowded than the evening. I met a bunch of mates at Wig & Pen at 6pm and sauntered in from there, food was excellent as usual but the crowd factor was a pain in the bum.

It was a good day….it’s one of the better festivals the city puts on. Big well behaved crowd. Sadly more and more of the stalls are commercial and not community based.

Not sure why big groups such as the Chinese, Vietnamese and Filipino communities are not represented.

Went into the city on Sunday and all the fun had been switched to mainly leftie community groups stalls…big yawn. Hardly any food outlets – although the Greeks know how to party 🙂

Not sure if anyone else went to the CATs awards on Saturday…it was a very professional and uplifting night. So much talent especially with the youth. Well done CATS!

the foreign food festival was quite fun.

it was marred only by an australian dance inspired by (i shit you not) ‘macleaods daughters’. akubras, flanny shirts.

a wave of cultural cringe surged tsunami like through the crowd.

of course uncle bonfires 4 yr old niece thought it was great, but she also likes the wiggles.

the announcer amazed us all by saying the macleods daughters dancers had won some competition and had represented australia in poland.

i always thought some sharpies in too small cardies and rat tails had a unique australian dance. happy to send them to poland.

I vaguely remember Carny rides always used to infiltrate the Civic carpark (when it was still a complete entity) every year, back in the late nineties – around Feburary or March (possibly during the Canberra day long weekend, possibly not). I don’t know whether they’ve been associated with the Mutlicultural festival previously, or not, though. But hey, you’re in civic, where people shop. Commercialism is there to begin with.