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ROC Market Chinese New Year in Loftus/Carnarvon/Thurston Streets/Suva
The ROC Market is a Chinese New Year street market on Suva's Loftus, Carnarvon and Thurston Streets, organized around Fiji's small, long-established Chinese community. Expect food stalls, craft vendors and cultural performances in an informal single-day street setting rather than a major dragon-dance spectacle. It offers visitors a low-key, easy-to-stumble-into glimpse of one of Fiji's less visible diaspora communities.
The ROC Market brings a Chinese New Year street market to the block formed by Loftus, Carnarvon and Thurston Streets in central Suva, organized around Fiji's small but long-established Chinese community, some tracing back to nineteenth-century migration and others to more recent arrivals connected with Taiwan-linked (Republic of China, hence ROC) business and cultural associations.