Borneo Culture Festival 2015

Borneo Cultural Festival (BCF) 2015 is coming to end tonight. I visited the venue earlier in the evening.
In this post I will concentrate on Chinese food.

As an introduction, this is the landmark of Sibu, Sarawak - Wisma Sanyan.

RH Hotel besides Wisma Sanyan.

Bubble game for kids. Adults do like it too.

Foochow fish balls Stall. This stall catches a very large crowd.

This fish balls sold out fast.

Food at Teochew Stall.

Xiao long pau

I was surprised to see the rice is coloured in blue and asked why blue. The lady told me it was a natural food colouring from the flower. Reminded me of nasi kerabu, I don't dare to eat the rice when I first introduced to nasi kerabu.

This kueh is absolutely delicious!

Chang - I found many versions of this.

 

I ate a lot of this kueh when I was young. There are two types of this, one with filling and one without filling. Have this with a cup of hot tea - super great!

Kong Pia - When I was little, I used to eat this plain. Now people invented it, add filling and fried, to make it tastier.

Steam bun

Yam kueh

The vendor told me this huge karipap (Chinese version) is yummy.

Hainan Stall

Foochow Association Sibu

Mom told me this is called 'see'. It is made from glutinous rice.

Lehpian (in foochow) -
Both See and lehpian are used as a marriage exchange gift in olden days.See for boys and lehpian for girls. The bigger size you received the bigger gift you have to return. I am not sure if this is practiced again now, but my family has abolished this. We eat this as traditional kueh.

Ku Tien Association

'Ma gee' - horse ears as it looks like horse ears!

There will be a grand cultural performance at the grandstand and firework as a closing ceremony. I cannot stay much longer so left the venue.

Ramah Tamah Aildilfitri - Celebration

Majlis Ramah Tamah is a must held event annually. Once again on Aug 4, my school organised a Ramah Tamah: kesenian Dan kebudayaan. We invited 23 primary schools nearby to join us. It is a day of celebration of culture and food.

The teacher and pupils from SJKC Chung Ung.

Teachers and pupils from other participating school.

The school children, about a thousand of them.

The cheerful MR and MS Mcee.

The dancers of Moh Li Hua from SJKC EkThei.

The dancers of Xiao Ping Guo from SJKC Chung Cheng.

Wushu presented by SJKC Kiew Nang.

SK Kampong Banyok presented Tarian Melayu.

SK Sentosa has Tarian Ngajat.

I managed to group them together for a group photo. 

Lemang (glutinous rice cake in bamboo) and ayam pansuh (chicken cook in bamboo)

Assam Laksa - the fish broth/soup,thick rice noodles and the toppings.

Sweet sour hard boiled eggs, chicken curry and boiled rice.

Nasi minyak and chicken curry.

Nasi Hujan Panas, arca, ayam masak merah and Lemang.

Cakes, ayam rendang, fried chicken wings and beef.

Spaghetti

Dessert.

Pupils and teachers walked around to visit open house.

Enjoying food prepared by their teachers.

We all enjoyed ourselves so much.

Till we meet again in coming year.