[outdoor/indoor] home-style Thai food at a Songkran Festival celebration

Songkran is the Thai New Year celebration. It involves pouring of clean water onto Buddhist statues as a symbol of cleansing or purification. In modern Thailand, this seems to have evolved(?!) into huge public water fights involving super soakers, buckets of ice water, loud music and street parties. For better or worse, we won't doing that in Austin!

More generally, the traditional new year in many South and Southeast Asian cultures is based on meṣa saṅkrānti (Sanskrit), the sun's entry into the constellation Aries. In ancient times, the sun's entry into Aries coincided with the spring equinox. In modern times, it is usually reckoned around the 14th of April.

Similar celebrations take place in South and Southeast Asia, including Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, Sri Lanka, regions in NE India (including Arunachal Pradesh and Assam) and S India (including Kerela and Tamil Nadu).

Every year, Wat Buddhananachat, the Thai Buddhist temple in Del Valle, celebrates the Songkran festival.

Dozens of vendors will be selling food, from Thai fried rice to intestine soup to curries galore, as well as many other offerings!

There's also live music, dancing, and a beauty pageant.

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