HONG Kong's Ancient Cheung Chau Bun Festival is one of the world's most quirky festivals.
This year, from May 9-13, the people of the charming island of Cheung Chau will get busy making papier-mâché effigies of deities, preparing costumes, steaming tens of thousands of ping on bao, aka 'lucky buns', and building a bamboo tower as they prepare for thousands of people to descend upon their tiny island.
For more than a century, the villagers have celebrated the festival with the vibrant Piu Sik (Floating Colours) Parade, Chinese opera performances, lion dances and delicious food.
The main event is on Sunday May 12 when the mind-boggling Bun Scrambling Competition kicks off. Competitors scale a 14-metre-tall bamboo tower covered with 9,000 imitation buns and try to collect as many buns as possible in three minutes!
