Utah Asian and Anime Market (Free event)

The Utah Asian and Anime Market is an Asian food festival, showcasing food vendors and artists from Phoenix, AZ and Utah.
About this Event

The Utah Asian and Anime Market is an Asian food festival, showcasing small businesses and their creativity! Our goal is to be a platform for small businesses and a place for people to discover new foods and shop from local artisans to anime merchandise. There will be exclusive vendors travelling from Phoenix as well as local Utah businesses. Please RSVP and this will help us have an accurate head count to share with food vendors. This is a free event though and tickets are not needed to enter the event. Tickets are for preordering merchandise and food. T-shirts and stickers may not be available to be purchased in person if preorder capacity is met. Preorder food from Happy Buns and Takoyaki to guarantee availability during the event as they often sell out early. Please see below for the items available to purchase online.

WHERE:
Viridian Event Center (Indoor and Outdoor venue)
(8030 S 1825 W, West Jordan, UT)
WHEN:

• Friday, July 17th // 5:30 PM - 10 PM
• Saturday, July 18th // 5 PM - 10 PM
• Sunday, July 19th // 11:00 AM - 3 PM

Upgrade your experience

Exclusive sticker

• Includes Early Entry for Saturday- Skip the lines and enter at 4:00pm
• Free 3 x 3 exclusive sticker - Chef Bao holding dumplings
• Free parking

Children 17 and under are free and do not need a ticket for entry. Refunds are available up until 8 days before the event. Pets are not allowed in the indoor portion of the event.

DETAILS:
The event is indoors with an outdoor amphitheater. 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. We highly encourage carpooling or rideshare.

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.

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 [email protected] and we will accommodate if tickets are not sold out online. If you come as a group, you can try from more vendors and create your own picnic.

Vendors from Phoenix, Arizona

• Duplex Matcha and Tea Bar - Matcha latte, coco water matcha, taro matcha, Taro milk tea, peach tea, Strawberry tea, Thai tea, Iced coffee, mango smoothie, ribena lemonade, pomegranate coconut water, brown sugar oat milk coffee, brown sugar boba
• Dubai Chocolate Cup
• Taiyaki - Japanese fish shaped pancakes
• Happy Buns, an Asian bakery - Ube butter mochi and mochi stuffed cookies
• Takoyaki - Japanese crispy dumplings
• Hot Bamboo - Character bao, inari, musubi, and rice bowls
• Eltigre Artist - Anime artwork (@eltigre_artist)
• Sloppy Brush - Anime artwork (@sloppy_brush)
• Uwu Station - anime plushies (@uwu_station)

Local food vendors (subject to change)

Friday only

• Riposo Lounge
• • Waikiki - pineapple soft serve, organic mango slushy, popping boba, and whipped cream.
  • Tokyo banana - vanilla bean soft serve, banana slices, chocolate, drizzle, Oreo, crumbs, pokey sticks, kinako (roasted soy powder).
  • Harajuku - vanilla bean soft serve, strawberry slices, mochi bites, strawberry sauce, strawberry pocky sticks.
  • Taipei- vanilla bean soft serve, Brown sugar syrup, brown sugar jelly
• Fatty Tuna - Sesame Balls, curry croquettes, sushi rolls

Saturday only

• Happy Tummie - Japanese fried chicken, Japanese grill chicken, Shrimp Tempura, Japanese Fried Tofu (vegan)
• Bao & Dough - Asian baked goods (Saturday and Sunday only)

Friday and Sunday only

• Kin Kao Thai - Pad Thai, Pad Kra Pow, Thai Fried Rice, fresh young coconut, dumplings

• Salt Suburban Kitchen - Birria potstickers, pork leek potstickers, butter chicken on brioche (gluten free option), gourmet burger, cubano bao, brisket loaded fries
• Sweet Cocoa Crepes - Japanese style crepes
• UT Craft Ramen - Onigri, Sandos, Open faced bao, Rice Bowls (Friday to Sunday)

Anime and local vendors (subject to change)

Friday to Sunday

• MariquitaMari - anime artist (@mariquitamari52)
• Zoltan - 3D printing
• Lilikha Crafts and Creations - customizable clickers (@lilikha.cc)
• Paperclovers - anime artist (@paperclovers)
• Project 100 manga - (@Erik_suaste)
• Thorin3dshop - anime and gaming characters (@Thorin3dshop)
• Tach of Love - live anime portraits (@tachof_love)
• BeeDazzled by Agnes Crystals - crystal carvings (@beedazzled2022)
• Jicky arcade services - gachapon (@jickyarcadeservices)
• Crimson Detonation - anime artist (Crimsondetonation)
• Golden Crystal Gems - jade & Crystal (@Golden_crystal_gems)
• Core Ceramic - ceramic tea cup sets, flowers, and vases (coreceramic.art)

Friday to Saturday

• Tzorith - anime artist (@tzorith)
• Timeless by Jeanine - Permanent Jewelry in SLC
• Enchanted Baubles - D&D dice, potions, teacup koi, art, baby dragon eggs, and more (@enchantedbaublesfantasyshop)

• Eevee Blue - Anime artist (Saturday to Sunday only)