and green
and yellow
and hot pink!
and blue!!
and basically every other pretty color you could imagine (Roy G. Biv is a very close friend).
The folks over at Festival of Colors: Holi NYC have been bringing the Holi party to Brooklyn every year since 2012. It popped up on my radar last year but tickets had already sold out by the time I was cool enough to know about it!
Tickets in hand, we made the trek.
Holi is a Hindu festival that celebrates the coming of Spring. It's often called the Festival of Colors as participants arm themselves with bags of colored powder and are encouraged to throw it at each other as they play and race through the streets!
We walked into what looked like a dust cloud of pink and entered the BK version of the festival.
Live music pumped from the stage, delicious food trucks lined a corner, rainbow people crowded the bar, and all over colors fell from the sky!
It didn't take long to get stuck in!
You would think that it could be a bit awkward to just run up to a random stranger and blow colored powder into their face but really, it wasn't!
People danced, a conga line formed, and layer after layer of color etched onto our clothes and skin.
Having exhausted ourselves in the first hour, we stopped on the sidelines for lunch. The row of food trucks was enticing, and they all looked very yummy, but we were at Holi! Would we ever NOT get Indian food?
Mysttik Masaala touts itself as "a delicious journey to the cuisines of India, Nepal, and Tibet." It's run by a nice man named Rishi and exists only as a food truck wandering the streets of NYC for now. Find them here! As soon as a brick&mortar goes up, you can bet your bottom dollar I'll be there because the food was phenom!
Veg samosa
Spicy chicken vindaloo served with rice
So yummy! TT has done wonders for my spice tastebuds. I used to order everything mild but have come to appreciate branching out into the spice world a bit. We got the vindaloo 'spicy' and it was the perfect level of heat.
Just enough lunch to spur us back into action!
We emerged from it beaming, covered in every color of the rainbow, and very ready for a shower.
Happy to find solidarity in some other Holi train companions!
We had a few interesting looks as we walked home, but for the most part people just yelled out, "Holi cow that looks like you had fun!!!"
TASTE THE RAINBOW #amirite??!
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