
Let me just start by saying that this wasn’t really a festival like you see in anime or videos on Youtube, this was more of a Japanese appreciation event. Anyways…. So I saw this event shared by one of my friends on Facebook and I had to definitely go to it. They were going to have a ton of Japanese food, noodle eating contest, festival dance, kimono sales, and other cool stuff. I was expecting it to be a big thing like our annual 4th of July festival that we have in the city. Well… We were packed into a small building with little to no room to walk through. I was expecting them to have a stage outside where the noddle contest and the performances were going to be shown. I also thought they would decorate with lanterns and have different vendors like they usually have during our big events.
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