Malaysian Street Festival 2014

This year's Malaysian Street festival was on at the Queen Victoria Market on this very sunny and warm Sunday

And yes there were many people there. All of them were Caucasians and some were Asian.

Onde Onde-a Malaysian dessert. I didn't get this time as I wanted to try other delights

More Malaysian delights

Fruit salad

Cooking Char Kuey Teow

Trying coffee. On this hot day I would have liked to sample a cold one but oh well

It was fun. I managed to have fun eating durians in the durian eating competition. They required eight volunteers all to come up on stage and eat. The winner who finished first gets a prize and that is a voucher for a Malaysian restaurant.

The durian was sweet but didn't have a lot of taste. Durian can be quite hard to find in Melbourne (with the exception of the Asian markets).

I tried the rockmelon drink ($3). It was sweet and refreshing.

There was teh tarik ($4) from Mamak. The line at Mamak was so long as everyone wanted satay. In fact there were about 5 or 6 restaurants that served satay in a stick.

Samples of beef which was just ok

The drink special

The lemon drink with honey jelly was great at Passar Malam but again there was a long line and service was soo slow. There was one lady who got the wrong drinks and they had to change it. This for $4 tasted more like water with honey jelly pearls.

The entertainment was very good though. If only they had more seating in the shade for everyone, this would be great. I really liked the Malaysian band as they played really great songs from the heart. And the two girls on stage with the accoustic winged it for me.

Do come to next years one. I really enjoyed myself at this one. And do bring your own lunch as food there can can get quite expensive.