The Indonesian Satay Festival 2012

This is the sequel of the Melbourne Street Festival that was held on April 29th in Queen Victoria Market,see the post here. The festival was held in Box Hill Town Hall.

Caused in May its winter in Melbourne, thank God that they hold the event indoor huff....

The venue was crowded by Indonesians that are homesick with traditional food like tempe, risol, ayam betutu, cendol and many more.

 

Maybe because I'm late I saw a few satays around??? It might already sold out. 

Ther are live performance on the stage, the first band consist of Indonesian and Australian sang "Cucak Rowo". The second band, seems they are teenager sang Peterpan and an english-lyric song. 

I take walk around foodstall, I saw masakan padang, jajanan pasar and other foodstall. Actually I want to buy satay padang, but because the queue is very long, I went to other foodstalll to have lunch, a chicken with coconut milk, sambal and cucumber, it cost around  $10. The chicken was nicely cooked, so the meat loose from bones and combined with sambal, tastes great! :q

There are also merchandise sales on another room near the main venue, they sell batik (of course), wall hanging, decorations, books, travel agent service and many more.

Because I have to shop groceries, I went early from the event, out from Box Hill Town hall.

Melbourne Street Festival (Kartini's Day) 2012

Kartini's day is a day where Indonesia celebrate the birth day of Kartini, Indonesia's emancipation heroine. The celebration is held every 21st of April.

In Melbourne, Kartini's day is celebrated in a different manner like in Indonesia. 29 April 2012 was hold Indonesia Street Festival. The event was held in Queen Victoria market, Melbourne.

How to understand a culture in an quick way? By a culinary experience.

Stands sell foods like sate, Empek-empek and beverages like Teh Tarik.

Visitors seems very exited with sate by the Indonesia Moslem Community Victoria, lots of people queue to get their order.

There were also other fellow southeast Asian countries like Malaysia and Singapore presenting Nasi Lemak and Chicken Rice.


Theres also a live performance on stage. When I first arrived, the sound mixer was playing Mulan Jameela :p
When somebody does a performance, he sang an english pop song.

When I was walking around, I saw a advertisement of Indonesia Satay Festival for couple of weeks ahead.

Well, you just wait for the coverage from me. :)

And the post has finished (hell yeah!) See the post through this link .