The annual Lunar New Year Festival has been held for 18 years and has proven to be quite popular, with 13,335 people turning out to enjoy the fire-breathing acrobats, lion dancers, traditional food and flower stalls, the God and Goddess of Fortune and, of course, the watermelon-eating competition.
Mayor Bilal El-Hayek said Lunar New Year was an important event on the City’s calendar to recognise Bankstown’s large Vietnamese and Chinese communities and “we are lucky to have such a large Asian community here and it is fitting that we acknowledge the Year of the Dragon”.
