Ho-Hai-Yan! – Taiwanese Cultural Festival in September

Not another dragon boat race? Oh yes, my friend, yet another dragon boat race straight on heels of the Taiwanese Cultural Festival (TCF), which returns to celebrate all things Taiwanese from September 2 to 4th.

Taiwanese Cultural Festival
Saturday, September 2, 2006 - Monday, September 4, 2006
2 locations: Plaza of Nations & Roundhouse Community Centre
1 day pass: $9 | 3 Day Pass: $15
Hotline: 604-696-1555
Website: www.taiwanfest.ca/van.

A 5-time CEIA Best Cultural Event winner, TCF will showcase artisan exhibitions, a yummy food fair and fruit market, entertainment galore including pop singer Peggy, the ubiquitous Dragon Boat race, a cooking competition pitting Taiwanese master chefs with Canadian chefs, a brilliant paper lantern maze, Ang Lee film festival, and loads more.

It’s fitting that this year’s TCF theme is “Ho-Hai-Yan”, a common expression used in Taiwanese aboriginal songs to express nature at its best. And where else can nature be at its best than beautiful BC, although Alishan ain’t nothing to sneeze at either.

Get ready for some good eats, and go ahead and rediscover Taiwan from its aboriginal roots to its modern incarnation.