Chinese New Year will be upon us soon and Melbourne is busy celebrating with street festivals!

Last weekend Ant and I were on our way to Ikea in Richmond when the GPS told us there was a traffic obstruction in the road, did we want to choose an alternate route?

We answered Yes, and as we took the detour we noticed a section of Victoria Street was closed off and there was loud music, yummy smelling smoke and fire crackers!

The many many MANY Asian faces clued us in that it was an Asian festival - lunar festival for New Year!!

So after driving around for what seemed like ages, we found a park which was close enough and walked back to Victoria Street to join in the festivities.

This was taken at Footscray Market - Chinese characters on apples!

pork wrapped in betel leaf

the crowd

Next on the Festival 'calendar' is another street festival at Box Hill tomororw.  That's my Saturday plans taken care of!