After an early round of Golf yesterday morning (hooray for golfing weather!), I met up with Inge to go to the 35th Annual Asian Festival. Basically an event for all the Asian nations represented here in the valley to come together, and showcase their cultures. There were cultural booths, dancing, and a market, not to mention some absolutely fabulous food.
Since I'd missed lunch, I was kind of a starvin' marvin. So we started off browsing the food booths. We decide to split a plate of Mongolian fried meat dumplings (which looked more like a turnover), but was delicious. We also tried some sticky rice with Mango and coconut milk, which is a yummy Thai dessert. Of course, as hungry as I was, I just dove right in and neglected to take a picture. But here's a close approximation. Just picture it with a little soy sauce sprinkled over it, and you'll get the idea.
After filling me up, we walked around and looked at the various booths, and did a little shopping. Inge found a scarf, and a tunic blouse, and got me a really cool bracelet.
The writing on it is supposedly the Hindi script for "ohm" (meditation word), which I think is a nice tribute to my Indian colleagues at IHG.
Before we left, we stopped back at the food booths for some Thai dumplings. Again, I forgot to get a picture, so here's an approximation. I think the meat inside was tuna - but in any case, they were also most delicious.
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