Buddha's Birthday Celebrations, Darling Harbour
Darling Harbour came alive last weekend with the annual Buddha's Birthday Celebrations held by Nan Tien Temple. A giant Buddha held centre stage on the Chinese Gardens forecourt, flanked by a myriad of stalls selling arts and crafts, Buddhist literature and, most importantly, lots of mouthwatering vegetarian food.
You know the food's authentic when all the signs are in Chinese
Sweet cakes filled with red bean paste
Sticky rice wrapped in
Vegetarian spring rolls
Panfried buns rolled with mushrooms and pickles
More photos to come (it was a camera-clicking bonanza!)...
posted by Helen (AugustusGloop) on 5/11/2006 11:15:00 pm
5 Comments:
At 5/12/2006 2:46 pm,
FooDcrazEE said…
wish we had the same kind of celebration here
At 5/13/2006 8:46 pm,
pseudo chef said…
We had the celebrations here almost a month ago and it wasn't as big as the one in Sydney. It was weird seeing a Turkish food stall at the celebrations though ;)
I miss those sweet cakes with red bean :)
At 5/14/2006 11:45 pm,
Helen (AugustusGloop) said…
Hi foodcrazee - I hope the photos made up for it =)
Hi pseudo chef - Those gozleme stalls get around don't they? It's so strange that they only seem to appear at festivals, and never as permanent fixtures in shopping centres or food courts.
I didn't try any of the sweet cakes I have to confess, although I was very fascinated with watching the production process!
At 5/15/2006 6:31 am,
gobsmack'd said…
Don't you mean bamboo leaves?
At 5/16/2006 11:36 pm,
Helen (AugustusGloop) said…
Hi gobsmack'd - Possibly =) I'll correct it now. Thanks for keeping me on my toes!
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