Passport DC - Thai Embassy

While canvassing the Dupont/Logan Circle districts looking for For Rent signs, we noticed massive crowds around Dupont Circle. I just took them for normal saturday afternoon about town types, maybe augmented by a flea market, it turned out they were all doing the Passport DC event, an opening of 30 embassies to the public for food and cultural exposure. Most of the embassies were open from 10am to 4pm so we basically missed it. Luckily for us, the Thai Embassy is located right here in Georgetown and was running it's event until 8pm, so we headed over. The first floor was filled with stalls from various Thai restaurants around the city. We started with some Mango Sticky Rice which was to die for and we took home some Papaya Salad (along with a recipe) to eat later as we were coincedentally going to be eating some Thai Red Curry I had defrosted a couple of nights before. This salad turned out really good too.

As for the est of the event, there was some cultural dancing scheduled that we missed, but much of the upstairs was a bazaar of clothing, handbags, jewelry, and sculpted flowers from soaps and melons. The last was pretty cool.