The Okome Matsuri, or Rice Festival, is being held at Yokohama’s Aka Renga Soko this weekend. My family and I went to it yesterday afternoon and enjoyed the sunny weather and plenty of food.
Aka Renga Soko is often used as the site of many events. Oktoberfest is also there. At the festival, there were several tents set up for food vendors, which were selling a large variety of interesting foods. I’d like to talk about what I ate, since everyone was there for the food.

The festival grounds with the Red Brick Warehouses in the background.

Ebi kushiten (Shrimp tempura on a stick) was pretty good. I love shrimp tempura, and the sauce was very good.

Maguro gyoza (tuna gyoza) was an interesting food. Usually, gyoza has pork and vegetables in it, this had tuna. It was quite good.

This was some of the food, including mabodofu (at top), maguro gyoza, pork, ebi kushiten, and some tomato dish which I didn’t eat. At the bottom was nori.

Grilled chicken with onion sauce was delicious. I love grilled chicken!

Tenkara, which is karaage (fried chicken), was very good. It seemed to have a bit of a garlic flavour.
In addition to the above food, we also had 6 kinds of rice. There were 12 types of rice available, but we chose 6. Honestly, I didn’t find much of a difference between them.

Other people enjoying the festival.

Some of the vendors.

One last picture. The sign says “Okome Matsuri.”
There was a lot of good food, and I enjoyed trying it. I filled up on rice and plenty of meats. It’s running until tomorrow (November 18), so if you want to check it out, I definitely recommend it.