Moon Cake Festival

Opening ceremony

During the mooncake festival, we went down to Chinatown to check out the celebrations in store. One shop chose this auspicious date for their opening ceremony so we got to watch a lion dance.

A band rocking on stage

When we entered the main atrium of Market City, we were pleasantly suprised to find a stage in the middle with a rocking band on stage. The only strange thing was why recruit a rock band for mooncake festival?

And they were singing in English. wtf this is supposed to be a chinese festival.

Dancers from Mongolia

The band was actually quite good, but they were playing really loud and it didn't really blend in well with the mooncake atmosphere, with lanterns hanging and decorative stuff. So it became pretty annoying after a while.

After that came the mongolian dancers. Swinging and swinging their dresses and swinging and swinging....

Cute little ones with umbrellas

Next up were the little children with umbrellas. Some of the mini dancers were really young and it showed in their somewhat disorganized dance. But it was a good effort nonetheless.

Kudos to one particular kid who had a hard time catching up to the rhythm of the other kids, but he tried relentlessly. hehe really cute

Puppet face

Then came the puppet faces, those that usually accompanies lion dances.

Adult umbrellas

The adult with umbrellas weren't as entertaining as the kiddies ones. Probaby because some people (myself included) find adults acting cute with umbrellas slightly revolting. haha


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