I was very excited to hear about this festival at the Silverton, especially seeing all the food trucks. In the end, I felt the festival was a severe let down, especially after visiting the O-bon festival earlier that day on Spring Mountain.
We had arrived after dark, but well before the closing time on Saturday. There were only a few food trucks and several generic asian food booths. Many of the vendors seemed very unenthusiastic and selling generic asian tchotchkies. There was an octagon fighting ring set up, but the fights occured earlier in the day I suppose. This festival definitely was not worth the $12 admission fee, if anything waiting in line and paying such a high admission to enter made me expect a lot more than what was offered.
Sadly, I don't forsee visiting the 3rd Annual Asian Food Festival.