Sandringham, commonly known as ‘Little India’, played host to approximately 3000 people at its recently held Street Festival 2016. Rows of stalls occupied the street extending from Shubh Restaurant to Paradise.
Turkish, Mediterranean, Sri Lankan, Malaysian, Arabian, Afghani, and South Indian cuisines were some of the food stalls that served people throughout the day.
One of the most popular stalls was owned by a couple making ice cream. Live Facebook videos of the chef making and designing eight different flavours of ice cream added to the growing number of people at the stall.
The Kitchener Road housed a stall that allowed people to play with spine-chilling creepy crawlies (insects). Children, men, and women had spiders placed on their face, while others had bugs and other non-fatal insects crawling on their hands. Some also held chameleons, frogs, lizards, mice, etc. as they posed for pictures.
Another attraction that engaged children and grown-ups alike was a street magician who drew giant soap bubbles.
Labour MP for Mt Albert David Shearer, who was also present at the festival, amazed the audience with his live guitar performance.
People were also entertained by other live band performances and popular Hollywood and Bollywood fusion numbers by Auckland’s popular radio station Humm FM.
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