When I lived in Seattle (Tacoma for you purists), I looked forward to the summer when two of my favorite festivals took place, "The Bite of Seattle" and "The Taste of Tacoma". As you can tell from the title, they are food festivals. I just have a weakness for eating great food and reasonable prices. But since I no longer live in the Northwest, the food festivals I look forward to now in Tokyo are the Thai Festival (held in May), Tokyo University of Agriculture's Harvest Festival in November, and this one, the Azabu Juban Summer Night Festival held every year in August. I've been going to the Azabu Juban Festival for the past ten years now, usually with a bunch of friends. However this year, having conflicting schedule with my friends, it was only me and Mikako. Also, every year, we started off by eating the various foods from various countries in the International Bazaar, but this year, we decided to start off the festival with an area called "Boast of My Village" which features foods from the different towns and villages from different Prefectures of Japan. Unfortunately, we went to Azabu Juban a little too early so we settled for a burger at Wendy's for brunch.
シアトルに住んでた頃（本当はタコマですが）、毎年、夏に自分が大好きな祭りがあった。それは「バイト・オブ・シアトル」と「テイスト・オブ・タコマ」。タイトル通りお食べ物祭りですよ。でももう１５年近くアメリカから離れてるので、現在毎年行く祭りは５月に開催されるタイ祭りと１１月に開催される東京農業大学の収穫祭とこれ、毎年８月に開催する麻布十番納涼祭り。麻布十番はもう１０年位行ってる。いつも友達と大勢で。でも今年、いつものメンバーとの都合が合わなくて、美香子と二人で行きました。毎年国際バザールで各国の屋台が出るところでいつも始まったが、今年は「おらがくに自慢」コーナーから行った。パンプレットから：全国約４０市町村が自慢名産品、隠れた逸品、地方ならではの味を披露・販売いたします。でも麻布十番に行くのがちょっと早かったので、最初はファストフードのウェンディズでバーガーを食べた。
It's amazing what you discover when you walk around not expecting anything.散歩しながら、面白い物の発見がいっぱい。これは何だろう？
Statue of Kimi-chan / きみちゃん
Before the start of the festival, I took some pics of the various food stalls at the International Bazaar preparing the featured cuisine.祭りの営業前に国際バーザルで準備してる屋台の写真を撮りました。
The Argentinean food stall
The Philippines food stall
The Brazilian food stall
Now on to our gourmet tour. We started off with some salted char.
Next, we feasted on miso kiritanpo, a specialty of Akita Prefecture.
Next we shared a skewer of scallops
Iberico Pork Skewerイベリコ豚の串焼き
Little octopi for takoyaki / たこ焼きの具のイイダコ
However, we did not eat the takoyaki at the festival but ordered some to take home.
Tokushima Burger which includes kuroge awagyu.
Tokushima Burger T-shirt / 徳島バーガーティシャーツYes, we had burgers before the festival started so I ordered this to-go as well.
祭りが始まる前にバーガーを食べたが、やっはりご当地のバーガーも食べたかったので、これもお持ち帰りで。
This looked great but we didn't order any - pasta paella.これも旨そうに見えたが、注文しませんでした。パスタのパエリア。
Then it was time for a little freshness - strawberries and mangoes.
さっぱりしたものも欲しかったので、ジュースの店に苺とマンゴを食べた。ジュースとちょっと違う。
After our refreshing dessert-like food, we headed over to the International Bazaar. This year we only ate two items from that area. A brik from the Tunisian food stall and Peking Duck from the Chinese food stall.さっぱりした物を食べたあと、国際バザールに戻って、今年は二国の食べ物を食った。チュニジアのブリックと中国の北京ダック。
The Tunisian food stall
Brik (deep fried tortilla-like thing filled with tuna, potatoes, and a poached egg, topped with halissa)
ブリック（揚げ餃子みたいなも）中身はツナ、じゃが芋、と半熟たまご、ハリサソース（唐辛子ソース）
Peking Duck / 北京ダック
We ended our gourmet tour of the festival with some berry berry juice from the Swedish food stall.
今日最後にした物はスエーデンの屋台にあったベリベリジュース
The Swiss food stall
Berry Berry Juice / ベリベリジュース
What's also great about festivals like this is having the opportunity to buy microbrews from other Prefectures. However, I did not add them to this post, as that's a subject for a separate post.
こうゆう祭りに日本の都道府県の地ビールも買えるのも一つの魅力。でも、地ビールのネタは別のポストに書いてますから、こちに載せてません。
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