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Spokane Buddhist Temple presents Japanese Spring Food Festival

By: Tracy Simmons

Date:

March 30, 2016

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Spokane Buddhist Temple will celebrate its annual Japanese Spring Food Festival — Haramatsuri — on April 10 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The temple will be selling traditional bento boxes, which are homemade by a team of 40 volunteer cooks. The chicken bento box includes chicken in sweet teriyaki sauce served with rice and Sunomono (Japanese cucumber salad) and the tofu bento box includes tofu in miso sauce, fried eggplant and Sunomono (Japanese cucumber salad). Also served will be Gyoza (Pork Pot Stickers), Chirashi Sushi and various Mochi desserts.

Dine in or take out will be available. Pre-orders can be made online or by calling 534-7954.

During the Festival there will also be an open house for guests to tour the Spokane Buddhist Temple.

Tracy Simmons

Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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