140 VIP guests had the privilege of being the first paying dinner guests of Adelaide's latest celebrities, Giant Pandas Wang Wang NameWang Wang Chinese Names网网 Stud Number620 Date of Birth2005-Aug-31 SexMale Current LocationWOLONG Born atWOLONG MotherMao Mao - #504 Father and Funi.

The dinner hosted in the new bamboo "Panda Forest", next to the panda enclosure. Who seemed unaware of all the fuss around them. Wang Wang NameWang Wang Chinese Names网网 Stud Number620 Date of Birth2005-Aug-31 SexMale Current LocationWOLONG Born atWOLONG MotherMao Mao - #504 Father snoozed and Funi chomped on bamboo while their dinner guests dined on an Asian-inspired three-course meal prepared by guest chef Poh Ling Yeow.

"When I came in to see the set-up of the tables and there Funi was, I am embarrassed to say I actually did get a little choked up," she said. "They are really remarkably cute."

One of the guests wore a diamond brooch in the shape of a panda, designed by Maria Kenda the brooch was encrusted with 91 white diamonds and 63 black diamonds and later auctioned for AU$5000 for the Zoo's panda conservation fund. In total AU$16,000 was raised by the auction on the night.

A sit at the impressive dinner cost upwards of AU$1,000 also going to the Zoo's panda conservation fund.