🙏🏻❤️✨ It has been an honor and pleasure to work with Chef Minji Park (
@parkminz33 ), Chef Ji Hye Kim (
@chefjihyekim ), Chef Eunjo Park (
@eunjoful ), and Doc Noe (
@drnoe ) as we brought together our next SHIA Restaurant (
@shia_dc ) and YETI (
@yeti ) collaboration event that we've been preparing and working on for several months.
"A Taste of Adventure" provides a crucial platform for next generation chefs to communicate their original culinary voices and confidence through a unique tasting menu. This experience is their form of professional mastery, comparable to industry leaders publishing their expertise or speaking publicly on their original story.
Unlike the last two, this time we brought in two mentor chefs, and I worked closely with everyone to explore how we could make a more enriching experience that all could enjoy, but also intentionally build a journey where we grow together. From the menu curation and execution to the cooking process, there were so many details to think about, and I couldn't ask for a better dream team to do this.
Thanks to Chef Edward Lee (
@chefedwardlee ) for recognizing why programs like this needed to exist and entrusting me to lead these initiatives as I oversee SHIA's nonprofit programs.
Thank you, Doc, and YETI for hearing our vision out and supporting this initiative. Your goods help us practice sustainability in SHIA every day as we store items in steel and cook with steel items, but it's so meaningful that we get to do this to support the next generation of chefs' voices together.
And shoutout to Chef Max (
@ifmaxhadinsta ) and Chef Lin (
@linchelinstar ) for your support behind the scenes in the kitchen and ingredient preps, and many other SHIA team members.
I can't wait to see what more is in store next year as we continue to grow more programs like this at SHIA. ✨❤️
Photos by
@elleyeonphoto
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