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The Little Pear Garden Collective is a federally incorporated non-profit cultural arts organization in Canada. Directed by artistic director Emily Cheung, her vision and company’s mandate is to raise the profile of professional Chinese-Canadian artists through the presentation and production of high calibre artistic programming.

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Noodle specialist chef Ken Sun of Sun’s Kitchen demonstrates the fine art of “la mian” (hand-pulled) noodles along with musical accompaniment.There is a five-minute drumming demo at the beginning, as well as more drumming in the middle and at the end.

“La mian” means “handmade” or “hand-pulled noodles.” These noodles originated from the northwestern part of China. Over the centuries, the art of handmade noodles has reached the vast corners of China and has consequently become a part of many regional Chinese cuisines. As a result, different types of handmade noodles have evolved adapting to regional flavours and ingredients.

Lanzhou-style la mian is the most common type of noodles throughout China, especially in north-western China. Many of the small Lanzhou-style la mian restaurants are owned by Hui Muslim Chinese and serve only halal food. Lamian restaurants are the most common halal restaurants in eastern China.

Lamian restaurants often sell Daoxiaomian knife-sliced noodles as well. You can also find Daoxiaomian making demonstration in this video.

You must have noticed the Japanese taiko drumming accompaniment in this video. What does taiko have to be do with La mian? I guess that’s because Japanese love La mian which they call ramen. “La mian” in Chinese and “Ramen” in Japanese are the same in written form, although are pronounced slightly different.

They are lions although they are often mistaken as dragons by westerners. Maybe people should be forgiven for making such mistakes since lions are not native to China. But at least there are some lions in China’s zoos, while there is no real dragon in China.

The lion is traditionally regarded as a guardian creature and his ceremonial acrobatic dance will summon luck and fortune to all.

Performers teach two audience members how to perform the lion dance. The two lions then “battle” in lion costumes and the winner is determined by applause and receives a prize.

Night market is an unfamiliar concept in the West.

In Canada, stores close very early. You can’t even shop after work.

In Asia, most people go to a night market not for shopping but for eating. This is especially true in Taiwan. At some large night markets there, you can also find all kind of games to play. Very often, there is a Chinese temple somewhere in the night market and people can go to bai-bai. Night market is a great place to hang out.

NAAAP(North American Association of Asian Professionals) and T&T supermarket has brought a night market to downtown Toronto this weekend following NAAAP’s successful Night It Up! night market in Markham earlier this summer.

There are dozens of vendor booths selling mostly food from around the world, mostly Asian cuisine. There are bands and groups sing or dance at two stages.

Main Stage
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