Saturday, February 20, 2021

Year of the Ox - Chinese New Year Street Party

 

Thankfully the heat has broken and temps have retreated from the nineties into the low eighties. Chinatown is adjacent, and a part of, the Adelaide Central Market. Today Gouger Street is blocked off for this event.
Tents and booths line the street. A stage with seating under a large tent sits at the other end of the street.
We need a refreshing drink and come across a place advertising sugarcane juice and a drinking coconut.
This machine takes in cane stocks, sometimes two at a time, and spits out cane stock debris from the opposite end and sugar cane juice into that pitcher next to the machine.
A raw coconut with two straws and a glass of sugar cane juice should refresh us.
Farther down the street we find this place. We wonder what they are making. People are walking away with what looks like five rolls of bread or crepes.

It is ice cream! They have a cookies and cream version, a green matcha green tea, and a durian, an Australian fruit we first saw in Queensland. Below is CJ's durian creation. It is simply delicious.
What would Chinese New Year be without a dragon?
This booth served up grilled lamb and squid. $2 for the lamb and $2 for a squid skewer. Both delicious.







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