A couple weeks ago on Saturday (10/04) was the SD Night Market over in Kearny Mesa!
This is a yearly event in San Diego, CA,
basically a big culture/street fair of Asian food & performances.
Here's a link to their webpage for more info about this year's meetup,
as well as future info about next year's event.
http://www.sdnightmarket.com/
There's a good mix of different Asian street foods - Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Vietnamese, Malaysian, and Korean, as well as other types of food - there was a waffle stand, and a sandwich stand as well. Grilled squid is my favorite but the line was nearly halfway across the lot. :c
There are desserts and sweets EVERYWHERE - the shaved ice is highly popular, as well as
baked goods/sweets, soft serve yogurt, and different drinks including bubble tea/milk tea and coffee.
(Note: It CAN be a bit expensive depending on what you order. I recommend coming
here to snack on different things or taste something unique, the plates aren't large so if you're
very hungry when you stop by you won't be full from just one order. Unless you get pho like I did.)
Eggrolls with sweet & sour sauce!
Had to get these, classic tasty snackfood. <3
Cherry shaved ice/snowcone. (about ~$3 for a small, which was already big...
the large was HUGE and definitely more than I could've finished)
(I also had pho and shared a crepe, but I forgot to take photos of those. So here's photos
of the booths & my friends instead!)
There was also a booth for UTOPIA (a discount gift certificate service) that gave away gift
certificates for local restaurants, and SD zoo daypasses (!!!!) for signing up for their website!
A lot of promotional booths showed up, as well as different local organizations.
Also plenty of minishops selling jewelry, music, dvds, anime figures, and clothing/accessories.
They also have quite a few performing acts, different musical acts as well as
dancing, bands, traditional performances, etc.
(My sister went earlier in the day and saw a maid cafe club dancing onstage.)
I went from about 9:30pm-midnight and it was still pretty full.
If you take the shuttle from the free parking lot, you can get in the express line! That only took maybe 10 minutes, but I could see the non-express line stretching from the other gate, all the way around the corner of the block...
There's been a streak of 70-80 degree weather in San Diego recently, so at night it wasn't
too chilly - I was still cold but I get cold pretty easily. I def recommend having a light
sweater or jacket with you. (It was also weirdly foggy that night, which didn't help me!)
This is definitely an event to go to with friends, so you can have fun standing in lines
(and not be very bored just standing around waiting). Which you'll do a lot, but it works
out because you'll be all done with your previous food by the time you get through the line,
so you'll be ready to order and eat your next treat!
Also so you can share food with friends and get a chance to taste lots of different fare.
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