We attended the first day, it seemed well-attended though not overcrowded, and well-organized especially for a first-time event. Some of the entertainment acts started late though. There was a variety of dishes, some common Thai dishes like pad thai and curries, and others like Immm which offered some kind of chicken skin wrap, or Sweet Rice which had a stuffed calamari. As they warned, there were not a lot of veggie options, which would be my biggest complaint. My second complaint would be that for the most part, prices were not listed on the signs. It was also dog friendly.
We had the calamari and a fried chicken dish from Sweet Rice (breading on chicken was too hard, a little difficult to eat); and steamed fish curry and sausage from Rainbow Cuisine.
There were also several booths for shopping, a massage booth and a couple of kids' arts & crafts stations. There was also a new Asian-focused, Chicago-based foodie magazine, Dill:
https://twitter.com/dillmagazine showing off their first edition and selling subscriptions. They are a quarterly, $20 an issue. (With the recent shutdown of Lucky Peach, I wonder if this one will survive.)
Anyone else who attended and might want to add their observations?