I'll cut to the chase, here are some pictures and thoughts on the Food and Wine Festival food (which we like less than the festival of holidays - but still enjoyed!).
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For those of you out there that don't know what the Food and Wine Festival is, I'll tell you :). The tradition started out small, with only two kiosks in DCA, in 2006. It ran through 2010 until it stopped and returned in full swing in 2016. Since 2016, it's been getting bigger and better! This year, there will be 13 kiosks making up the primary food and wine sales, along with a sit down menu at the Paradise Grill Area, and a Festival Beer Garden. However, it's so much more than that. There are opportunities to take wine tasting seminars, watch celebrity chefs at work, attend food educations, schedule special dinners, attend culinary demonstrations, listen to live music, and more.
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We stuffed our faces and shared 12 different festival food items: (1) Kimchi Bokkeumbap - Korean Vegetable & Kimchi Fried Rice, (2) Yachae Mandu - Korean Steamed Vegetable Dumpling with Sesame Garlic Soy Sauce, (3) Yang Gaeng - Korean Sweet Red Bean and Raspberry Jelly, (4) Banana Ooyu -Korean Banana Milk, (5) Xiao Long Bao - Chinese Pork Soup Dumplings with Black Vinegar and Ginger, (6) Sanbeiji - Chinese Three Cup Chicken, (7) Dan Ta - Chinese Egg Tart Dessert, (8) Baixiangguo Lucha - Chinese Passion Fruit Green Iced Tea with Lychee Popping Pearls, (9) Zhurou Bao - Chinese Steamed Bao filled with Pork with Sweet Chili Dipping Sauce, (10) Banh Chung - Vietnamese Sticky Rice Cake with Pork, (11) Chao Tom - Vietnamese Sugar Cane Shrimp Skewer with sweet and sour sauce, (12) Banh Khoai Lang Tim - Purple Sweet Potato Macaron.
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