Cabramatta Moon Festival 2019
Celebrate the spring equinox with lion dancing, food stalls and a moon cake-eating competition.
Overview
A lantern parade led by a moon goddess, a dancing lion, k-pop stars and a cornucopia of international food stalls are all planned for Cabramatta's 2019 Moon Festival. The traditional event, which has been celebrated across South East Asian communities for thousands of years, marks the spring equinox — one of two days in the year when day and night are of equal length — and the coming of harvest season.
Head to Cabramatta from 9am on Sunday, September 8, to join the free festivities, where you'll be in the company of more than 90,000 revellers. In between feasting to your heart's content from eateries across the suburb — and a pop-up version of the hawker-style food precinct District 8 — look out for live music, dancers, theatre and a performance by Andy Trieu (from SBS PopAsia) and k-pop idol Kevin Kim of boy group ZE:A.
There'll also be a bunch of fun, food-related happenings, including a prawn peeling challenge and a moon cake-eating championship. Moon cakes are round pastries filled with lotus seeds, red beans, orange peel and a yellow "yolk" that represents the moon.
You can expect frivolities to finish up around 8pm, with an epic fireworks display.
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