Weekend plans not fixed yet? Here are five things happening around Kuching this Saturday and Sunday — from food and music to cosplay, scouting and a morning walk. 1️⃣ Kuching Festival Food Fair ️ 22 July–16 August | 4:30 PM–10:30 PM Dewan Masyarakat MBKS, Kuching The final weekend of Kuching Festival is here. Come hungry for local favourites, street food and plenty of festival vibes. [image: 1786666130150-event1.jpg] Image: Kuching Festival / MBKS Source: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=KuchingFestival1888&set=a.922249750957364 2️⃣ Traditional Oriental Music Night ️ Saturday, 15 August | 7:00 PM–11:00 PM MBKS Theatre, Kuching Park A slower, more cultural night under the Kuching Festival programme, with traditional and oriental music on stage. Nice pick if you want something more relaxing than a crowded food hunt. [image: 1786666130224-event2.jpg] Image: Kuching Festival 2026 promotional material Source: https://everythingboleh.com/event/kuching-festival-2026/ 3️⃣ Borneo–Japan NewTrends Trade Expo 2026 ️ Saturday–Sunday, 15–16 August | 9:30 AM–6:00 PM The Everly Lhesson Hotel, Vivacity Megamall Anime, comics, games, cosplay, Japanese culture, business and community activities all in one expo. Bring your camera — there should be plenty of interesting booths and costumes to check out. [image: 1786666130296-event3.jpg] Image: BJNT 2026 Source: https://borneoplux.com/bjnt2026_v1/index.php 4️⃣ Rover Expo Sarawak 2026 ️ Saturday–Sunday, 15–16 August | 10:00 AM–10:00 PM 2nd Floor, The Spring Shopping Mall ️ Free admission Curious what Rover Scouts actually do? This expo has exhibitions, hands-on activities, workshops and sharing sessions — a family-friendly stop if you are already shopping at The Spring. [image: 1786666130359-event4.jpg] Image: Persekutuan Pengakap Malaysia Cawangan Sarawak Source: https://www.facebook.com/scoutsarawak/posts/1345531317563343/ 5️⃣ Mayor’s Walk 2026 ️ Sunday, 16 August | 7:00 AM onwards MBKS Boulevard, Padungan ️ Free community walk; registration required Start Sunday early with a community walk organised by MBKS. Good chance to move a bit, meet other Kuchingites and enjoy the morning before the heat kicks in. [image: 1786666130423-event5.jpg] Image: MBKS / Mayor’s Walk 2026 Source: https://mbks.sarawak.gov.my/web/subpage/news_view/6327 Tip: check the organiser’s page before leaving, especially for outdoor programmes and any last-minute changes. Which one are you planning to visit? #Kuching #WeekendEvents #Sarawak #KuchingFestival

Federal Territories Minister Hannah Yeoh says KL can learn from Kuching Festival's 'food ecosystem' — from farm to marketing Yeoh visited the Kuching Festival grounds on Aug 7 together with DBKL Mayor Datuk Seri Fadlun Mak Ujud and his team, hosted by MBKS Mayor Dato Wee Hong Seng. This was her second visit. She said her daughters first discovered the festival on TikTok during SUKMA and encouraged her to come. "I felt the concept was very unique and very vibrant. There is a lot of youth and young people's energy, and it was very clean," she said. After taking over the Federal Territories portfolio, Yeoh said she told DBKL its officers should visit Kuching to study how the festival was organised and how fresh ideas from young people were incorporated. "We are here to look into the entire ecosystem, not just this food festival, but also the ecosystem from farm to marketing. How you actually activate so many different industries based on one concept of just promoting food culture here." She cited MBKS' Natural Farmers Market as another initiative that could provide learning opportunities for KL. DBKL Mayor Fadlun described the visit as a good experience: "This is something new for us in Kuala Lumpur. Maybe we can learn from Kuching South to adopt this concept." [image: 1786151080400-kl-kuching-festival1.jpg] Source: DayakDaily What do you think?

Two deals you don't want to miss this weekend in Kuching! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DEAL 1: KUCHING FESTIVAL 2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The biggest event in town is still ongoing! Kuching Festival 2026 celebrates its 40th anniversary with 29 events over 26 days. [image: 1786068404696-kuchingfest2026.jpg] Location: MBKS (Kuching South City Hall), Jalan Padungan When: 22 July – 16 August 2026 ️ Entry: FREE This weekend highlights: • Food Fair with 323 stalls — your weekend dinner plans sorted • Kuching Zumba Fiesta 2026 on 8 August (aiming for Malaysia Book of Records for largest senior Zumba participation!) • Garden Show at Kuching Park • Live entertainment & cultural performances • Kuching's Got Talent semi-finals on 15-16 August From food to fitness, cosplay to culture — there's literally something for everyone. Bring the whole family! Source: DayakDaily / MBKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DEAL 2: ADIDAS EXTRA 20% OFF AT AEON MALL KUCHING ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Heads up sneakerheads! ‍️ Adidas is offering an EXTRA 20% off on already discounted items at their LEA CENTRE store. [image: 1786068404800-adidas-aeon-kuching.jpg] Location: LEA CENTRE, AEON MALL KUCHING CENTRAL, 1st Floor When: 25 July – 9 August 2026 (LAST 2 DAYS! ) Stack that discount on items already marked down. Perfect time to grab those sneakers or sportswear you've been eyeing. T&Cs apply. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Got a deal to share? Comment below! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Here are this week's deals in Kuching! ️ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DEAL 1: KUCHING FESTIVAL 2026 — FOOD FAIR & BORNEO CULINARY WORLD CUP ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Kuching Festival 2026 is still ON until 16 August — don't miss it! Location: Dewan Masyarakat MBKS, Jalan Padungan Time: 5pm - 11pm daily Entry: FREE The 40th anniversary edition features 29 events over 26 days. Highlights this week: Borneo Culinary World Cup 2026 (5-7 August) — Starts TODAY! Watch chefs battle it out Kuching Food Festival — Hundreds of stalls: Laksa Sarawak, Satay, Kolo Mee, seafood, desserts, and more Indoor shopping expo (MBKS indoor hall) — Clothes, phone accessories, pet products, games Kuching Zumba Fiesta 2026 (8 August) — Attempting Malaysia Book of Records! Bring the whole family — there's something for everyone! Source: DayakDaily ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DEAL 2: MINISO MALAYSIA — MERDEKA SALE (5-31 August) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Celebrate Merdeka month with great savings at MINISO! Buy 1 Free 1 — Selected iMeilly Press-On Nails 31% OFF — Selected FIFA, Coca-Cola & The Legend of Hei collections More in-store surprises while stocks last Available at all MINISO outlets in Kuching including The Spring, City One Megamall, and other locations. Source: EverydayOnSales.com Which one are you hitting this week?

Weekend plans still empty? Here are a few things happening around Kuching and nearby this weekend. Save this first, then jio your makan kaki or family. [image: 1785456208290-kuching-festival-2026.jpg] Kuching Festival Food Fair 2026 Time: 22 July - 16 August, 5.00pm - 11.00pm daily Place: MBKS Community Hall / MBKS grounds Still the easiest weekend plan: makan, drinks, local snacks, cultural performances and plenty of crowd energy. Good for family, date night, or just walking around after dinner. International Friendship Cities Night Time: 31 July - 2 August, from 7.30pm nightly Place: MBKS Theatre Part of Kuching Festival. Expect cultural performances from Kuching's friendship cities, including groups from China, South Korea and Japan. Nice option if you want something more performance-focused after food fair. 38th Kuching City Day Time: 1 August Place: MBKS Kuching marks its 38th City Day this Saturday. If you are already going to the festival area, this one is worth checking out together with the city celebration atmosphere. [image: 1785456208415-pokemon-tcg-2026.jpeg] Kuching Festival Pokemon Trading Card Game Competition Time: 2 August, 10.00am - 6.00pm Place: MBKS Lobby / MBKS Community Hall area For Pokemon TCG players and curious visitors. Even if you are not joining, can drop by to watch the matchups and feel the gaming crowd. DBKU Mayor's Run Time: 2 August Place: Padang Merdeka, Kuching For the early birds. A Sunday morning community run in the city, good excuse to start the day active before heading for food later. [image: 1785456208355-jom-heboh-2026.jpg] Bonus nearby: Karnival Jom Heboh Sarawak Segulai Sejalai 2026 is also happening from 31 July to 2 August at the area beside Majlis Perbandaran Kota Samarahan. Expect family activities, contests, booths, food, meet-and-greet sessions and concerts on Saturday/Sunday nights. Quick tip: MBKS area will likely be busy in the evening. Go earlier, carpool if can, and check the organiser pages before heading out in case timing changes. Sources: DayakDaily, The Borneo Post, KuchingBorneo event listing.

This weekend in Kuching is quite packed. If you do not want to stay home, here are a few places/events worth checking out on 25-26 July 2026. [image: 1784851502928-kff-crowd.jpg] Source: DayakDaily Kuching Festival Fair 2026 + Garden Show Time: 25-26 July, 5.00pm-11.00pm Place: Dewan Masyarakat MBKS / Kuching Park area If you only pick one easy plan, this is the one. Food stalls, night crowd, Garden Show, and that yearly Kuching Festival mood are already back. Good for family, couple, or just jalan-jalan cari makan with friends. [image: 1784851503013-kuching-festival-launch.jpg] Source: DayakDaily Kuching Festival Cosplay Competition 2026 Time: Saturday, 25 July, 7.00pm-11.00pm Place: MBKS Theatre For anime, game, and pop culture fans, this one should be fun to watch even if you are not joining. Expect coswalk, skit, costumes, and plenty of photo-worthy moments around the festival area. MBKS Pickle Rush Kuching 2026 Time: Saturday, 25 July, schedule by organiser/on-site notice Place: PicklePro Kuching Pickleball is getting hot everywhere now, and Kuching Festival is bringing it into the weekend lineup. There are boys', girls' and mixed doubles categories, so it is more of a sporty community event than just another food-fair side activity. [image: 1784851503081-pickle-rush.jpg] Source: DayakDaily K-Stage: K-Pop Dance Cover Competition 2026 Time: Sunday, 26 July, 7.00pm-11.00pm Place: MBKS Theatre Sunday night is for K-pop fans. Dance crews will be on stage, with Best Costume and Random Play Dance also part of the programme. Good option if you are already going to the festival for dinner. Kuching Half Marathon Heritage Run 2026 Time: Sunday, 26 July, from 4.00am Place: MBKS Kuching Early morning crowd will be huge, with over 4,200 runners expected. 21.1KM flags off at 4.00am, 10KM at 6.00am, and 5KM at 6.30am. If you are not running, just take note of traffic around MBKS and heritage route areas. [image: 1784851503239-khmhr-resized.jpg] Source: JomRun Quick tip: if you are going MBKS in the evening, go earlier, carpool if can, and expect queues. The festival crowd already started strong on opening night. Sources: DayakDaily, Sarawak Tribune, JomRun, MBKS/Facebook event listings.