{"id":707123,"date":"2026-06-01T04:56:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T04:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/707123\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T04:56:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T04:56:26","slug":"winnipeggers-enjoy-taste-of-asia-festival-amid-scorching-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/707123\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeggers enjoy Taste of Asia festival amid scorching weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeggers celebrated the annual Taste of Asia festival, one of the city\u2019s largest events showcasing the diversity of Asian cultures this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The free festival at Memorial Park had dozens of vendors, performers and community groups representing a wide range of cultures all in one place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s great, it\u2019s really important for diverse cultures, especially Folklorama and all that it\u2019s great to see that we\u2019re doing this in Winnipeg,\u201d said of one of the attendees.<\/p>\n<p>Newcomers and long-time residents came out despite the scorching weather Sunday to try everything from street food to desserts and traditional dishes from different regions across Asia.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cIt brings people joy,\u201d said another attended. \u201cEveryone is together here and despite the differences, we\u2019re all just like one community here\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Besides the food, there was an eating challenge, a fashion show, cultural performances and stalls by artisans.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Winnipeg as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=winnipeg.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778261834_283_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winnipeggers celebrated the annual Taste of Asia festival, one of the city\u2019s largest events showcasing the diversity of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-707123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}