An annual Bun Festival turns the fishing island of Cheung Chau into a staging ground for a traditional parade and a climb up a tower lined with steamed buns.
People take part in a bun-scrambling competition on Hong Kong's Cheung Chau island on May 15. The first thing crowds saw Wednesday as they poured from the Cheung Chau island ferry onto a wide, waterfront promenade was a temporarily vegetarian McDonald’s. “Adhering to the rituals of the Bun Festival,” a small printed sign read, explaining that the restaurant would temporarily offer a McVeggie burger and products without meat, dairy or eggs.
Over the years, the bun festival spawned bun towers, and bun towers morphed into televised bun tower races, complete with Hong Kong-wide selection heats and on-belay safety trainings.
The 2024 float from Fong’s team featured Hong Kong Olympic fencer Cheung Ka Long held aloft by Hong Kong Olympic swimmer Siobhán Haughey.that there was no aggressive agenda behind the few more satirical displays. One child was dressed as a housewife, holding up a mishmash of recycling paraphernalia in an apparent jab at the government’s new waste management scheme. Another float even seemed to celebrate the“It’s fun. It’s traditional. And everyone enjoys it.” Fong said about the festival.
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