Tomorrow, Brisbane Festival will be officially ended. RiverFire will conclude this festival. There will start at 7pm. Moreover, a5 5.15pm, Southbank will have some air display from Australian Royal Airforce. You can see F18, C17, Aviation MRH 90 and Tiger Helicopters. You should not miss that!
Last week, I went southbank culture forecourt. I entered the main venue of Brisbane Festival,Arcadia. That sounds much larger than past years. There are a few giant tents. The largest one is a bar.
If you like to drink some beers, that is a good choice, you can enjoy the beers and views of Brisbane River at the same time. However, because there is a bar. You need to provide some identity documents to prove you are over 18. That is a bit annoying to me.
If you don’t like to have a drink, there are some food trucks, you can have some burgers or curry.
If you don’t want to have a drink and get somethings to eat, there are some entertainments too. You can buy a ticket to watch Club Swizzle or Fear and Deligh at a small theater in Arcadia. Or attending a free event at QPAC, there are some live brands in front of QPAC.
If you want somethings quiet, there are some 3D chalks painting.
Lastly, Brisbane Festival will be end soon, the events will be ended officially on 26th September. Also, at that date, RiverFire will ignites the skyline.
Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers 2015 started yesterday. As usual, there is a lot of flowers in Queens Park and USQ Japanese Garden. In addition, those family won The Chronicle Garden Competition. They opens their winning home gardens to the public.
Also, Their grand central floral parade will be held this afternoon 3pm. There were a lot of floral floats and street performers. You should not miss that!
Date :
21/9/2012-30/9/2012
From tomorrow to 26th September, that will be the period of Brisbane Festival 2015.In their 15 venues, there will be more 200 sessions of performances. Also, the organizer built a temporary festival village calls arcadia, where has bar & restaurant, food trucks and two performance tents. There will be two shows, Club Swizzle and Fear and Delight. Even on the surface of arcadia, that is also a part of Brisbane festival. That is Brisbane Airport 3D chalk which is a 3D chalk street painting. That is intersting
Lastly, on 26th September 7pm, at Brisbane river, there will be a firework show to celebrate the end of this year Brisbane Festival. I think you should not miss that.
For further details of programs, please visit Brisbane Festival website.
EKKA is coming. That will be 7 days later, on 7 th August 2015. This is a major event in Brisbane and an annual agricultural show in Brisbane and has more 100 years old.The first EKKA held in 1876 and holds in RNA showgroun
d every year. A lot of people like to visit this show.
There will be a lot of animals!
Moreover, there will be a lot rides and games in the stalls
That will be a lot of fun. Well, please do not forgot The showbags. They are a bag contains commercial merchandise. These merchandise will have much higher value than the price tag of a showbag. I love them!
Lastly, every night will be some live entertainment and fireworks in there. This year, there will be a transformers live action show, that sounds interesting.
If I have time, I will visit this show! I think you should not miss that.
Last night,we went to Southbank for Night Noodle Markets. A lot of people were there and 30 stalls opened and provided various kinds of food, such as Japanese Ramen, Japanese Style Pizza, Chinese Xiao Long Bao etc. We enjoyed this kind of vibrant aisan hawker market atmosphere. I think that was more people in there than last year.
This year, I think the event organizer did a better job. There are some improvements. Firstly, there are more tables and chairs for visitors. We sat and enjoy our food. Moreover, there are some performances too, I saw illuminated lion dances. Those two illuminated lions were walking around the whole market. Everyone loved them, they passed by. Everyone took his/her phone to take photo.
Lastly, this year, most of stalls accept credit cards and paypass. I love this kind of cashless arrangement. Without changing cash speeded the queue.
For the food, we tried two stalls. The first one was Chicken Teppanyaki ($13) Noodles. I love this kind of stir fry noodle. They were freshly cooked and I felt the hot temperature from the noodles. Also, Teppanyaki sauces is very tasty.
Secondly, we tired Hoy Pinoy. They are from Melbourne and travel up to Brisbane and make Filipino street bbq skewers. We saw them put two big Charcoal grills next to the stall and kept to make skewers. The skewers smelled good.
Finally, we had chicken and pork BBQ skewers ($12). the sauces on the top was good. That has unique Filipino flavours.
Besides of them, I saw there are some interesting dishes. There are korean and chinese small burgers. They looks quite interesting and mixing the traditional aisan cuisine with burger. At the end, I felt they are a bit expensive, around $10 for a palm size burger.
Lastly, a thing you need to be aware. Most of stalls have a long queue. I spent around 15 minutes for waiting in each stall. Please provide more time for this.
From today until 2 August, every night, the market will open in Culture forecourt in southbank
Free Entry
Openings Hours :Monday to Thursday: 5pm til late, Friday: 4pm til late , weekends: 2pm til late
Tomorrow, noodle night market ,which is a major event of Brisbane Good Food Month, will start officially. I was in Southbank this evening, I saw the stalls has setup.
There will be 30 stalls, including Japanese pizza,ramen and Chinese bao burgers. Please checkout from their website.
However, I pointed out some highlight stalls.
This is a restaurant from Melbourne. They converted Chinese buns into Chinese bao burgers. That is quite interesting.
Japanese Pizza Okonomi House:
A lot of friends like their Japanese Pizza.
I love japanese Ramen, I will try their signature dish, Tonkotsu Ramen.
Sorry about that, I have not time to list all stall in here….. The best way is going out there!
Address: Culture Forecourt, Southbank.
July means Good Food Month if you are in Brisbane now! During 9 July to 9 August, there will be a number of events about food happening around Brisbane. A number of famous restaurants will take part in this event.
Also, this year will have Night noodle market agian, this event was very successful in last year Good Food Month. In this year, a number of restaurant stalls, themed bars, music and an outdoor party will setup in Culture Forecourt Southbank again. I am looking forward about that. This event will be held during 22 July – 2 August 2015.
I think that will be fun!
I found during these recent years, Brisbane has more tool roads, such as Go-Between Bridge and Airport link, clem7 and a new gateway bridge. This month, there will be a new one joins the network, Legacy Way. This toll is a 4.6-kilometre tunnel which links the Western Freeway (Toowong) to Kelvin Grove. The construction are completed, and today opened to Brisbane people walk though! However, I got another work to do, I cannot be this events. I only can enjoy to watch the photo taken by my friends went to this event in Facebook!
Yesterday, there was the grand opening of H&M new branch at Garden City. This is the 2nd branch of this fashion grant, H&M, in Queensland.
Today, I and my wife went to there for shopping. There were too many people. We had to line up a queue to enter the store. The waiting time wasn’t very long, only for a few minutes. We found the store is quite large, the store has two stories, including male ,female and kids fashion departments, fashion accessories and sportwear. Also, there are some grand opening offers, , such as $2.95 for a shirt! Most of goods are only around $20 to $30. Those prices are quite reasonable, which are similar with H&M in Hong Kong. I think those are the reasons to attract the crowds today!
Garden City
Logan Rd & Kessels Rd,
Upper Mount Gravatt
QLD 4122
