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Category: Festival
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The inaugural Asia Collective Night Market was held on Saturday, August 20, 2022 at the Howard County Fairgrounds in West Friendship, Maryland. The concept was to hold a food festival to mimic the famous night markets from Asian countries. Rows of food stalls would be available for attendees to sample foods from various Asian ethnicities…
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Fiesta Asia had their 6th annual Asian Street Festival at Silver Spring, MD on June 26th, 2016. Normally scheduled for the beginning of May but postponed to June due to being rained out, the Silver Spring festival is a smaller, more compact version of the big bonanza that takes place in Washington, DC. I was…
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On Sunday, April 17, 2016 I went up to Philly to attend the annual Sakura Sunday event which is a Japanese culture festival at the Fairmount Park Horticulture Center. This is basically a smaller version of the National Cherry Blossom Festival Sakura Matsuri from the previous day in Washington, DC. Despite the weather being fairly…
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This will be just a quick post from the Sakura Matsuri Festival held today in Washington, DC. The annual Japanese culture festival is back and located in a new location. Previously held on Pennsylvania Avenue, the festival is now located in a lot near the Nationals ballpark close to the Naval Yard. I’m not sure…
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I attended the Fiesta Asia Street Fair held in Washington D.C. for the fourth time on Saturday, May 16, 2015. The annual street festival is sponsored by the Asia Heritage Foundation. They usually hold a smaller festival in Silver Spring at the beginning of May and have the larger, main event in D.C. during the middle…
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Like my previous post on the National Cherry Blossom Festival, this one will be light on words but heavy on pictures. On April 12th I drove up to Philadelphia to attend my first Sakura Sunday, Philly’s cherry blossom festival. This festival is much smaller in scale compared to D.C.’s, but it has a much more…
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This post will be light on words but heavy on pictures. I went down to Washington, D.C. on Saturday, April 11, 2015 for the annual National Cherry Blossom Festival. I got there early in the morning at around 05:30 AM to ensure that I get a good parking spot at Hains Point and to be…
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