a day at natsu matsuri

Natsu Matsuri in Sydney?? Yes we have it here ^_^ how cool is that. since Australia is made up of different nationalities, we have all sorts of festivals. Is been a long time ever since i attended one. well no offence, but i still prefer the one in singapore.

Natsu Matsuri = Japanese Summer Festival
A festival often held at the temple. they have stalls for games and my favourite "food". people wearing yukata (a casual form of kimono) will be a common sight.

first, we rushed to the food stall to get Takoyaki and okonomiyaki (they call it hiroshima yaki. apparently, hiroshima is famous for okonomiyaki. wah wish i could try one in hiroshima, one of my favourite japanese food ^_^).

Food Stall


eekk.. i didn't manage to take any pictures of the food, as we were so hungry (came without any breakfast), we just stuffed everything down. but believe me is really delicious. well i guess waiting for about an hour for these were afterall worthwhile.

Our contented face ^_^



start of the bon odori.
bon odori is a traditional old folk dance. Xuexue and Shuyun will be very familiar with it. we would always participate in this dance during the summer festival in singapore and of course with yukata on.



hote hote mata hote sore
gatsuite gatsuite yakumodori sore
osute osute kiraite
jion jion ga jion


Me and Shuyun always recite this phrases when we were doing the dance.

Next is my favourite "Soran dance"
Soran dance from hokkaido





and more soran dance ^_^, this is by the sydney group. more youngsters


I always wanted to learn this soran dance, the moves are really cool. but is far too expensive since i am a non-japanese.

enough of the dance, let's move on to the yukata beauty contest


The group on the left is the male contestants, on the right is the female and the front role are the kids. There are lots of bishiojio and bishionen. the gals really did spend time dressing up. they have pretty clips on their hairs as well. the kids are so kawaii.

Noddle fighting contest

The standing ones are the winner. My fren and I still couldn't believe that the gal actually could eat that fast. she is really elegant not rushing at all.
They got a packet of soba each for participating. Wah is good, I also want some soba. Yum Yum

Finally Me with Candy floss to end this post, one pink and one blue. they taste super sweet and very fluffy.


We stayed back till 7pm for these events. is really fantastic and it definitely brings back good memories.
Thanks for my frens who went with me and actually stayed with me till the last performance.
Arigato gozaimashita.