Foodieland
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We didn't have any plans for the 4th of July weekend. But a Facebook ad feed came up in my feed: Foodieland Night Market. I had to admit that it is an effective audience targeting because I had got pressure from my wife hanging out somewhere during the holidays.
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It looked like any Japanese Matsuri, and actually, it was. There were hundreds (literally) of food vendors. The systems were quite like the Japanese: food popup stores, attractions (bouncers, baseball throwing, etc.), music, and so on. But it was multi-cultural. Not only the classic Japanese festival foods such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakitori or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takoyaki but there were also lots of cuisines from all over the world: Tacos, Pizzas, finger foods from Southern Asia, and weird fusion such as Wagyu Beef Ramen Burger (What?).
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It was a fun family evening outing. There were way more people than we expected, and all looked so happy: happy with regained normalcy. One more meaningful thing to me was that the event venue was near where I lived fourteen years ago - where my daughter was born. It was a reminiscence we enjoyed, and we hoped we could enjoy another memory of peaceful days.