Melbourne Food and Wine Festival’s largest free, family-friendly event has returned.
Dandenong Market will celebrate world street food and culture on Sunday 22 March from 10am to 4pm at their ninth annual Dandenong World Fare.
Dandenong World Fare will feature more than 50 street food traders who will be offering everyone’s favourite hawker style foods as well as some of the world’s most unique dishes created solely for the festival.
Kabul Kitchen – seen in the Journal’s Dine Local column – is offering a take on mantu dumplings that has been passed down through generations.
Owner Mohammad said that the secret recipe has been in his wife’s family for decades and he is thrilled to be able to share it with the community.
Famous in the Market for their delectable naan bread, the team at Kabul Kitchen serve the Afghan dumplings with lentils and a yoghurt sauce.
Delicious Mauritius will prepare the traditional Mauritian dish Sept Cari.
Completely vegetarian, this flavoursome dish incorporates seven different types of curry served on a fresh plantain leaf.Xian Lim Chen’s from San San’s Dumpling House is welcoming the community into her childhood home at World Fare 2020.
As a young girl Xian was very picky with her food, so her father created what would become a family favourite – Treasure Pockets.
Treasure Pockets are packed with rice, chicken and vegetables and are made with the same love as Xian’s father once put in his.
More than 40,000 are expected to take their tastebuds on a global tour at Dandenong World Fare 2020.
With authentic Indian, New Zealand, Spanish, African and Asian dishes on the extensive World Fare menu, it’s impossible to go hungry.
World Fare doesn’t just celebrates the authentic and traditional cuisines that can be found all around the world: a jam-packed entertainment schedule of colourful, cultural entertainment will also wow the crowds.
Live entertainment will represent many of the 157 different nationalities that can be found at the Market on any given day.
From 10am visitors will have the chance to experience traditional Haka performances, Bollywood and Brazilian dancers, African drumming and an authentic Chinese lion dance.
Market shoppers will be charmed by Eastern European band Wunderbass and Mauritian sega dancers who will be roving around the Market.
There will be free face painting, free ta moko body art and free traditional henna available all day.
Dandenong Market World Fare 2020 will be held on Sunday 22 March 2020 from 10am-4pm. Find out more at www.dandenongmarket.com.au/event/world-fare-2019/
