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May Day Festival at Downtown Summerlin

May is Asian Heritage Month

Flavors of Aloha Festival held their first Hawaiian Festival at Downtown Summerlin. It was filled with food, crafts, information vendors, a car show, and all-day entertainment. There was a spam musubi eating contest, and at 6 p.m., the VIP Lounge opened to those who wanted to experience Hawaiian cuisine, beer and wine tastings, and the highlight of tuna cutting and eating fresh ahi. As expressed in Hawaiian, when food is delicious, “It was ONO!”

This festival is the start of many for 2023. I’m involved in a few of them, but a few are many in a year. There is the LV Japan Fair on May 27th. This is an all-day festival with vendors and a VIP Lounge with live DJ music and sake tastings starting in the evening. On June 24th is the O Bon Festival which was online during COVID. Then on September 30th, a festival still in the planning stage will be incredible—a few arts-n-craft fairs in between. At the end of October, the Taco Festival is 3-days of food, fun, and Mariachi Bands. Then in December, Mochitzuki pounding of the sweet rice.

This month is packed with Asian cultural events, and I hope to attend some of them.

Wear your Aloha shirt and slippas, stay hydrated, and drink plenty of water at an outdoor event because the weather is starting to move into the 90s. If you don’t own an Aloha shirt, go to Printerval on my store page and search Hawaiian shirts. There are many choices!

Until next time…A-L-O-H-A