Warunya Thongrod
More than 5,000 people are expected to attend
Pattaya’s annual Vegetarian Festival Oct. 14-24 at the Sawang Boriboon
Thammasathan Foundation in Naklua.
Deputy Mayor Wattana
Chantanawaranon presides over the Vegetarian Festival 2012
organizational meeting.
Planning for popular feast and festival got underway
Aug. 7 with Deputy Mayor Wattana Chantanawaranon and Sawang Boriboon
officials laying out the agenda and menu. As in previous years, the
highlight will be the cooking of “dumplings with heavenly ingredients”
in a giant skillet for everyone in attendance.
The festival will also feature a Chinese dragon
parade and processions of Chinese gods. The opening day will feature the
cooking of “Pad Yad Thip Paed Sien.” The dish - made of specially
ordered tear-shaped rice-flour dumplings, ginkgo and cashew nuts, bell
peppers, shiitake mushrooms, dried bean curd and vegetarian seasoning -
was passed out to thousands of revelers, many dressed in white to honor
the end of the Buddhist Lent season.
