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Arizona Bao and Dumpling Festival

Sat Oct 7, 2023 10:30 AM - 4:30 PM MST Martin Auto Museum, 85306

Arizona Bao and Dumpling Festival

Sat Oct 7, 2023 10:30 AM - 4:30 PM MST Martin Auto Museum, 85306

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The Arizona Bao and Dumpling Festival is partnering with the Martin Auto Museum to host its 4th annual event. Explore all the different varieties of baos and dumplings from traditional to creative interpretations. What is a bao? From Food Republic, a bao or known as a steamed bun or baozi is a "complete meal conveniently packed away in a white, warm, soft bun." Or what we like to say, an amazing delicious experience. Baos are a form of dumplings and you can try different dumplings from various cultures from takoyaki to potstickers. This year's theme is cars and baos!

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WHERE:
Martin Auto Museum
4320 W Thunderbird Rd, Glendale, AZ 85306

WHEN: Saturday, October 7th // 10:30 AM - 4:30 PM

WHAT'S INCLUDED:
Tickets include free parking at the museum, a bao sticker while supplies last, and a curated dumpling experience. This is a one stop shop to support local and try from a variety of food vendors and purchase anime merchandise. Children 12 and under are free for both the festival and Martin Auto Museum.

The Martin Auto Museum is indoors with more than 170 vehicles, including classic cars, hot rods, customs, and imports. Explore a variety of cars on a self guided tour and most vehicles you can step in behind the driver's seat and take a photo! The museum also features a large collection of auto memorabilia, antique gas pumps, and signage. The arcade is free. No food and drink is allowed inside the museum. We suggest after trying different dumplings to check out the museum. Re-entry is allowed into the festival. Admission is bundled with entry into the Martin Auto Museum for most tickets. Museum admission can be purchased separately day of the event.

Refunds are available up until 8 days before the event.

DETAILS:
For our fourth year, the event is outdoors. We will have local food businesses and menu prices range from $5 - $17. We will also have a curated anime marketplace with local artists. Boba, desserts, and other Asian dishes will be available too. Parking is free in in the parking lot. We highly encourage carpooling or rideshare. Feel free to cosplay!

All food and drink is sold separately. All of the local businesses will be collecting their own sales. They do not offset the event production costs. Most vendors will accept both cash and card. We do recommend bringing cash for this event and coming with a group of your friends and families to try a little bit from everywhere! Event times will be staggered to improve flow of the event. You can stay as long as you like and ticket times are only for how early you can arrive.

Early admission - Please arrive at 10:30am

General admission - Please arrive between 12:00pm and 3:00pm

Happy hour admission - Please arrive at 3:00pm and until the end of the event

Refunds are unavailable if you miss your admission time. If you need to switch tickets for a different admission time, you can email us at azbaodumpling@gmail.com and we will accommodate if tickets are not sold out online. General admission may have lines with an extended wait time from 30 minutes to an hour. If you come as a group, you can try from more vendors and create your own dumpling picnic. We suggest early admission or happy hour admission to avoid the lines. Happy hour admission is at a discounted price, but we do not guarantee all food and drink choices will be available from vendors. Near the end of the event, lines are the shortest with sometimes less than a 20 minute wait. Vendors may have some menu items that are limited and due to supply, may not carry every choice featured below during happy hour admission. There will be food available during the event for happy hour, but there may also be a couple vendors who may be sold out. You can purchase food to go.

Menu/vendors subject to change.

Arizona Bao and Dumpling Festival Vendors

Hot Bamboo (Vegan options available) - Character Bao, Rice Bowls, Pot Stickers, Shumai, Musubi
Bonzai Boyz (Vegan options available) - Korean fried chicken gua bao, braised pork belly gua bao, crispy shrimp gua bao, and a vegetarian gua bao. Made from scratch pork potstickers and lobster and shrimp dumplings. Lobster trio featuring a tempura lobster tail bao bun, a lobster salad bao with ponzu aioli, and lobster and shrimp dumplings with a togarashi miso butter sauce
Chinoz Grill (Vegan options available) - Asian Fusion and Fried dumplings
Happy Buns - Coconut bao, ube butter mochi (GF), red bean bao, smoked pork belly bao
HoWun Cheesecake - Japanese cheesecake (GF)
Takoyaki Balls - Takoyaki and more Japanese food
Jasperz Island Fusion (Vegan options available) - Jerk Chicken gua bao, Ox tail egg roll, Jerk Chinese spareribs (GF), Fried pork pot stickers, Garlic Noodles (v), Jerk veggie Gua bao (v), Spring rolls (v), Carib rum cake, Carib green tea
Red Ginger Arizona - Korean Shortrib, Mochiko Chicken, Bulgogi tacos, Hawaiian grilled chicken, bbq pork steam buns, shrimp ceviche
Flippin Rice - Katsu Pork Bao and Crispy Adobo Bao
Mr. Momo (vegan options available) - Nepalese dumplings
Woksticks - BBQ Pork Bao, Egg Custard Bao, Sticky Rice, and Pork Braised Bao
Tambayan - bbq skewers, lumpia, pancit, adobo rice bowl, siopao, siomai, curry, ube horchata, halo halo drink, sago gulaman, lychee drink
Miniburi Thai (Vegan options available)- Crispy house veggies rolls, Fried house pork shumai, Thai Street Bao Bun (choices of assorted fillings and 100% Vegan fillings), Pad Thai (Choices of Chicken, Tofu or shrimp), Thai fried rice (choices of Chicken, Tofu or shrimp), Stir fried chili jam with rice and mixed salad (choices of Chicken, Tofu or shrimp), Thai fried chicken with papaya salad and sticky rice, Thai curries with steamed rice, Drunken stir fry Ramen (choices of Chicken, Tofu or Shrimp), Mango and sticky rice, Thai Tea
Mama Lita's Soda Bar - siopao, pancit, and drinks
Breezy Pop - fruit popsicles (lychee pop, matcha vanilla, Juicy Strawberry, Sweet n’ Sour Lemon, Tropical Pineapple, Tango Mango, Mambo Maracuya (passion fruit), Wild Guanabana (soursop), Chocolate Fudge, and Vanilla Bean)
Eis Cafe (Vegan options available) - Mochi Sundae, Lattes, Sundae, Signature coffee drinks
Duplex Boba Tea Station - Hong Kong milk tea with boba, taro milk tea with boba, white peach oolong tea with boba, Hong Kong Milk Coffee Tea with boba, and Chinese style organic coconut milk pudding
Hoyo's Kitchen - Sambosas