February 26, 2025
At this year’s Haymarket Chamber of Commerce 2025 Year of the Snake Lunar New Year Banquet held at Zilver Restaurant on Friday, 7 Feb 2025, we were privileged and delighted to have the amazing lion troupe from Pak Hok Kung Fu International Inc. perform for us. Pak Hok 白鹤(which means White Crane in Cantonese) is a martial arts and lion dance school based in Sydney, and it was established in Sydney’s Chinatown in 1972.
Below is a full video of Pak Hok’s lion dance performance at our banquet (filmed by Edwin Lais), featuring two adult lions and two cubs:
We would like to thank all members and guests for making the evening such a success and an enjoyable one including special guests, Federal Minister Tanya Plibersek MP, Minister Stephen Kamper MP representing NSW Premier Chris Minns MP, Senator Andrew Bragg, Federal MP Sally Sitou, NSW Opposition Leader Mark Speakman SC MP, NSW Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly Ms Robyn Preston MP, The Hon Damien Tudehope MLC, Leader of the Opposition in the NSW Legislative Council, Councillor Robert Kok representing Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore AO, Mark Coure MP, Matt Cross MP, Kellie Sloane MP, City of Sydney Councillors Lyndon Gannon, Jess Miller and Matthew Thompson, Cr Barbara Ward, Deputy Consul-General Yu Jie, Vice Consul Yang Chenhao, Consul Chloe Quintin, Sneha Chatterjee (Department of Home Affairs), Gary Cowan (CEO, National Foundation for Australia-China Relations), Kim Pang (NFACR), Nick Kaldas APM (Chairperson, Multicultural NSW Advisory Board), Joseph La Posta (CEO, Multicultural NSW), Chief Supt. Darryl Dunbar ( Area Commander, Metropolitan East, NSW Fire & Rescue), and Det. Supt. Martin Fileman APM (Commander of Sydney City PAC ).
We would also like to express our gratitude and special thanks to our MCs Kan Huang and Serena Tran, Millon Wines for their award-winning wines, our sponsors Community Bank Darling Square and David Sutantyo of Twelve Grains Capital, all our raffle prize donors, our singers Tamara Guo and Ian Epondulan, and the Guzheng music duo of Anders Leung and Michelle Ng.
We will post all the photos taken at the banquet on our website shortly. You can view some of these on our Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/haymarketchamberofcommerce/
