Sarawak Intercultural Mooncake Festival

Mooncake, mooncake... i remember back in 2002, when it first started... those were the days, naive and full of energy... how i wish we could turn back time...

Monday September 10, 2007
Giant mooncake for charity
KUCHING: A giant mooncake will be baked to raise funds for needy children for the upcoming annual Sarawak Inter-Cultural Mooncake festival at Carpenter Street.
Chefs and their assistants will make the 600kg mooncake at an open area on Sept 22.
The cake will be sold to the public, with proceeds going to the Sarawak Children’s Cancer Society, Sarawak Autistic Association and Children With AIDS through the Sarawak Family Planning Unit.
Coupons to buy the charity mooncake are on sale at several outlets.
The weeklong festival, which kicks off on Sept 19, has become a popular cultural and tourism event since it was first held five years ago.
Jointly mooted by former Padungan assemblyman Lily Yong Lee Lee and Pantai Damai assemblyman Dr Abdul Rahman Junaidi, it was first jointly hosted by the Chinese clans and several Malay villages in Petra Jaya.
Since then, the Dayak and Indian communities have joined in.
Mooncakes that are halal have become a unique feature of the festival, which drew some 15,000 visitors nightly in the past few years.
The Culture, Arts and Heritage Ministry is the main sponsor for this year’s festival.