Asian American Expo, the largest Asian trade show in America. The Asian American Expo first opened its doors in 1987 at the Pasadena Convention Center. At the time it was called the Chinese American Expo, with 60 exhibitors and the goal of bringing together businesses and consumers. Since then the show is held annually in conjunction with the Lunar New Year Festival. Having gone through a long history filled with enormous challenge and hard work, the Asian American Expo has made a name for itself as the premiere Asian trade show market across America.
In 1992, the Asian American Expo moved from the Pasadena Convention Center to the Pomona Fairplex to accommodate the rapid growth and expansion of the show. Starting with a single exposition hall, it was only a matter of time before the show would need additional halls to host more exhibitors and visitors. Today the Asian American Expo includes 5 large exposition halls, Buildings 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8. Every available space outdoors between the buildings has also been set up with exhibitor booths. The expo hosts more than 800 exhibitors annually and welcomes more than 100,000 attendees to the show.
This year it opened from Jan 19~20, and we went to there at 20th. One of my mom's friends Tom was a worker there, so he gave us two tikets.
This time was our first time been there, we saw a lot of fun stuff and so many food from different in Asia. I ate Chinese Tofu, Japanese Takoyaki, lamb, Thai shrimps, Korean BBQ and many else. They all yummy, and expensive.
My favorite hall was hall 5, they've got many things I intrested at, like Anime and moto. They also got a few cosplay stuff about One Pice and I took a picture of it.
We stayed there for about 4 hours, hope we can go next year, too.
