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Songkran Water Festival: Vegan Thai Cuisine

What's for dinner? Spicy green mango salad, a coconut curry with paste made from scratch, grilled cauliflower satay with house peanut sauce, and sweet green pandan ice cream. We make our plant-based feasts from organic whole foods.

What's Songkran? For tourists and young people, Songkran is a water pistol party for cooling off in a hot country. Traditionally, gently-poured Songkran water washes away the misfortunes of the past year, welcoming the new year with a fresh new start.

Our Songkran Water Festival is sponsored by Whittier Backyard Farms. You'll enjoy an Urban Dinner Socials traditional-but-vegan four-course meal (menu below) and go home with a shimmery mosaic in honor of the water festival.

Dinner to be held indoors due to cool evening weather. Enjoy foyer dining or dinner theatrics in the kitchen!

All-Vegan Menu:

- Som Tum Mamuang
(Thai green mango salad with chilies and tomatoes)

- Pumpkin in Red Curry Sauce and Jasmine Rice
(A gorgeous multicolored curry with paste made from scratch)

- Grilled Cauliflower Satay
(With our house spicy peanut dipping sauce)

- Pandan Ice Cream
(A buttery, nutty tropical herb that's naturally bright green)

We'll have a craft activity making metallic mosaics to celebrate Songkran - the traditional Thai new year. Come enjoy delicious food and good company with the Urban Dinner Socials. Sawasdee Pee Mai!

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Sunday, April 14
7:30 p.m.
3048 Fletcher Dr., 90065
$25 online
Tickets at the door $40

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All dinners are vegan. Local and organic where possible. Food sensitivities accommodated; please let us know.

Produce from Whittier Backyard Farms for this event includes pumpkin, kale, celery, lemons, cilantro, scallions, lemongrass, Thai basil, and garlic scapes.

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Tickets online are $25 and are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Pre-sale tickets are available for $20.

Alternately, you're invited to join our volunteer kitchen crew: Purchase a volunteer dinner ticket online for $5 (must be purchased 24 hours or more before event). Arrive at the kitchen at 4:30PM on Sunday and we'll show you what to do from there!

A two-course child's menu is available for $7.

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Whittier Backyard Farms provides the Whittier area with a CSA of fresh organic produce and food education.

What is a CSA? Community Supported Agriculture offers different ways for community members to invest in local food. Invest in Whittier Backyard Farms as a volunteer farmer and/or produce box program subscriber.

http://www.whittierbackyardfarms.com

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Urban Dinner Socials: We are a traveling vegan gastropub that reinvents world cuisine and comfort food using local, organic produce. For recipes, stories, and dinner dates, subscribe to our newsletter: http://eepurl.com/kJfpz

Why dinner? You'll sit down with a stranger and get up with a friend at our community table. Come dine with some of the nicest people in L.A.!

Why vegan? Our inclusive cuisine welcomes everyone. Not only is it vegan, we can make it gluten-free/soy-free/corn-free, you name it.

Why local? Supporting a neighborhood farm* means eating healthy, pure, sustainably grown food. It also means a reduced carbon footprint, increased independence for our local economy, and reduced reliance on non-local resources.

Why experimental? Vegan and raw vegan cuisine is the new Wild West for food lovers. We have the most fun pioneering and helping invent this cuisine!

*The primary produce supplier for the Urban Dinner Socials is Whittier Backyard Farms, a small start-up farm group in Whittier, CA.