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00:00Here in Darwin, the International Luxor Festival is back for another year.
00:05Now you might not think it, but this hot and spicy soup is a favourite of Territorians,
00:10even as the humidity increases through the month of October.
00:14Now I'm here with Jason, who's a Luxor producer in Darwin, and you've actually won a couple
00:19of awards, haven't you?
00:20Yes, I have, Lillian.
00:21We've done great over the years.
00:23We took out the first prize when Darwin International Luxor Festival started back in 2019, so we
00:29took that out, and a few years later we did our back-to-back, and yeah, it's been great.
00:35We took a gap year last year, only because I wanted somebody else to embrace and enjoy
00:40the journey that we've managed to fortunately have, but for 2025, well actually 2024, we're
00:45actually back in it this year again to give it another crack.
00:49Yeah, so part of the Luxor Festival is a competition to see who can be crowned Darwin's greatest
00:55Luxor.
00:56You've obviously won it several times.
00:58How are you feeling about your chances this year?
01:00We're excited.
01:01We've got a great community in Darwin and great followers, and I think we'll go, if not
01:06winning, very close to winning.
01:08And are you trying anything new for this year of the Luxor Festival?
01:11Yes, we have.
01:12For the last four weeks, we've tried to bring out a Darwin-inspired by Luxor dish.
01:17We did the traditional mac and cheese Luxor, so that's on offer to the public, and yeah,
01:22I think it would do well.
01:24Mac and cheese Luxor doesn't seem like a combination that would work.
01:27Why does it?
01:28I reckon it works, and the feedback that we've had, it only consists of no more than 10 ingredients,
01:33but with our mac and cheese combined with our secret liquid of gold, which is the Luxor,
01:39there's well over close to 15 ingredients just to produce that mac and cheese Luxor.
01:46There you have it.
01:47Close to 15 ingredients are going into this mac and cheese Luxor-inspired dish, which
01:52you can try throughout the Darwin International Luxor Festival, running all through the month
01:56of October in the Top End.