Tucson Meet Yourself is a special outdoor event where people from all over the world meet to enjoy cuisine, music, and dance from many different cultures.
Members of our Wat Buddhametta community have been serving a variety of Thai foods at Tucson Meet Yourself for over 20 years! During this time our experiences with TMY staff, the other vendors, and thousands of festival attendees have been truly wonderful.
Thailand has earned the nickname “The Land of Smiles” and at our booth we prepare, cook and serve our dishes with lots of smiles for everyone!
Everything is homemade and vegetarian. We not only sell food at TMY to raise funds to support our Buddhist temple, monks and lay community, but to raise awareness and share peace, happiness, and goodwill with other festival participants. We come from different places and we eat many different foods, but we all call Tucson our home. The same is true of our Temple, where we practice Theravada Buddhism which is common throughout Southeast Asia, though our volunteers come from Thailand, Laos, Mexico, the United States, and other places and cultures.
Ajahn Sarayut Arnanda, Abbot
Wat Buddhametta and Tucson Buddhist Meditation Center

