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We love nothing more than a room full of familiar faces and new friends 🧧 Thank you to everyone who came together to celebrate Tết with us! So grateful for our volunteers, collaborators, performers @vcs.nyc , @mavalabs , @figznchibz and everyone who helped make this night possible 🫶 Special thanks to @welcome.to.chinatown for hosting us and to @its.maivino , @theluckyoxco and @joyflowerpotnyc for being a part of the celebration. Music by: @hao.composer @haakon.huynh @valerie.hauyen @rohun.dhar @imanhpoint 📸: @marcosorianophoto Until next time ✨

Introducing the menu for our Tết Feast at @welcome.to.chinatown ! We’re super excited to feature dishes around multiple regions of Vietnam. Stay tuned for more from @mavalabs 👀 and don’t forget to get a ticket before we sell out! Link in the bio 🫶

Xin chào bạn! Come join us for a lively Tết feast featuring five+ regional dishes, drinks, live music from local Viet artists, cultural games, and lots of community connection to ring in the Year of the Horse! Hosted by the Vietnamese Creative Society (VCS), @mavalabs (an experimental art, food, and entertainment studio), and @welcome.to.chinatown , this will be an exciting event full of comfort and joy. ​Schedule: ​6 PM: Doors Open ​7 - 8 PM: Performances ​8 - 9 PM: Karaoke or just chill :) ​ What a ticket gets you: ​​🍲 Food: Five+ traditional and creative dishes from across the Northern, Central, and Southern parts of Vietnam. Menu inspired by the fairytale behind bánh chưng (the official dish of Tết), where the emperor put out a cooking competition across Vietnam to determine his heir. Food prepared by @mavalabs (they run an incredible supper club series!), @figznchibz (local Viet bakery), and resident chefs and bakers at VCS :) ​​🍹 Drinks: Wine from local Viet wine business MaiVino (@its.maivino ) ​​🎶 Performances: Come hear live music from local Vietnamese artists… ​​🎤 Karaoke: … or be the performer yourself! No Vietnamese party is complete without some late night karaoke. Confidence, but not singing skills, required ;) ​​🃏 Games: Play classic Viet games like bầu cua cá cọp and tiến lên. Don’t know how to play? We’ll teach you! ​​🎧 Music: Live DJ music Tickets linked in the bio!

🥢🍚🌏 chinatowns around the world🥢🍚🌏 a new supper club series by @enriquechuidian and @mary2chen tracing the story of chinatowns around the world through food, migration and memory. we’re starting where it all began: binondo, manila, philippines—the oldest chinatown in the world. 🇵🇭 our tasting menu is a blend of foods found in binondo and experimental fusion takes on traditional dishes. we hope to offer a peak into our cultural heritage with archival storytelling. our first stop in the philippines is deeply personal with enrique from manila and mary from the fujian province where many chinese migrants in binondo trace their origins. this chinatown specifically reflects culinary influences from our cultural heritage. 😌🥘👩🏻‍🍳🧑🏻‍🍳 we encourage anyone who wants to learn more about *organic* fusion and chinatowns to come join us. 🗓 saturday, 5/31 @ 6:30pm 🎟 limited seating! each ticket also comes with a zine produced by mary + enrique! image from meserve-kunhardt collection. general collection, beinecke rare book and manuscript library, yale university.

HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR 🧧 🍊🥟 CHÚC MỪNG NĂM MỚI 🏮❤️‍🔥✨ 🎉What better way to celebrate the new year than sharing some bánh chưng, some thịt kho and gỏi cuốn with loved ones and new friends? 👩🏻‍🍳At Tet Festival, you’ll get the chance to savor wonderful traditional Việt dishes, with a unique & creative twist to each, crafted by our talented team from @mavalabs @haveyourcake.nyc and @vcs.nyc 📜Our menu includes: - Bánh Chưng (V available) - Thịt Kho - Gỏi Cuốn (V, GF) - Rau Muống Xào Tỏi (V, GF) - Chè Ba Màu Cake (V) - Bánh Cam (V) Of course, we know that nothing will ever top mom and grandma’s food, but we can promise that you’ll find a taste of home here with us ❤️ Come hungry and ready to feast! Tickets are running low - grab yours today, link in bio! #newyork #vietnamese #vietnamesefood #lunarnewyear #music #original #nycevent #viet #creative #communityevent #tet

“All in on shrimp!” - Hao Come play (or learn to play) bầu cua cá cọp at our Tết event on Feb 5 (ticket link in bio)! Bầu cua cá cọp is a popular game typically played by children during Tết where you try to collect as many pieces as possible. But with great reward comes great risk… come try your luck at our event! #buacuacacop #vietnamese #games #creative #society #nyc #newyork #all #in #on #shrimp

"To me, Tết is about pausing and taking stock of what you have... it's like putting out your hopes and wishes and dreams for the new year. With me, writing my music, each song is like a hope or aspiration I'm putting out into the ether." Come see the incredible @fromquynh perform at our Tết event on Feb 5th (ticket link in bio)! quỳnh is a self-taught singer-songwriter whose pop-RnB music is both hopeful and nostalgic at the same time. Weaving dream-like soundscapes with even smoother vocals and relatable stories, quỳnh has a talent for making the audience feel like they're experiencing life right beside her. Get ready to see an awesome performance! #quynh #tet #newyear #festival #vietnamese #creative #society #performance #music #singer #songwriter #original #pop #rnb #nostalgic #dreamy #vocals #newyork #nyc

“Ever since I moved to the U.S., Tết became this feeling of yearning. I think that feeling of yearning is very recurrent in the music I make. I think being able to miss something is beautiful… it means you’ve experienced the full depth of loving something.” Come hear the wonderful @valerie.hauyen perform at our Tết event on Feb 5th (ticket link in bio)! Valerie is a singer-songwriter based in NY but grew up in Vietnam. Her music captures feelings that simultaneously look towards both the past and the future and explores the yearning, growth, and excitement that forms within that gap. We’re so excited to have Valerie perform — you’re all in for a special experience! #music #singer #songwriter #newyork #nyc #vietnamese #creative #society #mavalabs #yearning #tet #festival #original #newyork #nyc

"When I think about Tết and the intersection with the art form I love, music, I ironically think a lot about quietness... my experience growing up was primarily my mom just bringing back home Bánh chưng and Bánh tét for her, my sister, and I to enjoy. It's an experience I really appreciate, and I've composed a piece about it." Come hear @hao.composer perform at our Tết event on February 5th, 7-10 PM (ticket link in bio)! Hao is an award-winning composer who's worked on various media projects ranging from live films to animated projects to fashion shows and dance pieces. More recently, Hao is experimenting with building custom music interfaces, which will be featured at his Tết performance alongside an original piece written specifically about Tết. #music #composer #composition #original #Tet #vietnamese #creative #society #vcs #newyork #nyc #performance #artist #piano #mushu #banhchung #banhtet

Had a great time making dessert for my first supper club with @mavalabs ! @mary2chen and I chose to build a menu around chrysanthemum, the quintessential fall flower, and explore an ingredient we both wanted to learn more about 🌼 I developed two chrysanthemum-based recipes, taking inspiration from ingredients typically found in traditional Chinese medicine: - a chrysanthemum charlotte cake with cognac-infused creme bavaroise and spiced pear - a chrysanthemum pavlova topped with jujube, almonds, and goji berries

🏠TINY ROOF RECAP 🏠 oops! we did it again 😌 tiny roof concert #2 was a beautiful night of music, community, and stories 🎶 our hearts are filled with gratitude for everyone who contributed and participated in the show 🌸 shoutout to our lineup of amazing artists, photographers, and collaborators who made the event possible 🩷 tiny roof is only tiny roof because of your heartfelt stories, your deep love and passion for music, and your willingness to share tenderness with us 🌸 to our lovely beautiful audience - thank you for making journey and being a part of this special night 😌 we can’t wait to welcome you again… maybe sooner than you think, stay tuned 😉 with much love, mava labs xoxo 📸: @d0wnward_spiraling @mary2chen @shayan_reze (please DM us if we used your photos here so we can tag you!)

💐🍴supper club vol. 2 🍴💐 join us for a mava labs collaboration with @haveyourcake.nyc ! we are excited to partner with chris cao for an incredibly floral supper club. the meal is heavily inspired by the queen of the fall flowers, chrysanthemum. every dish in this multi-course meal has hints or stars chrysanthemum. this event will also serve as a fundraiser for the @immdefense (an org securing justice for all immigrants, esp ones facing detention and deportation) and the @arc_southeast (an org brings reproductive justice and access to people in the southeast). we will match all of our profits, meaning for every dollar we make, we will match. if you cannot make it to the event, you can still donate! mava labs values hands-on experiences, so we be making art inspired by chrysanthemums and running a discussion on mutual aid. 🎟️ rsvp in bio🎟️ sunday, november 17th 6:30pm $75/pp limited seating! —————— what is supper club? supper club is a new food series where we roll out a theme for each season. each meal will feature one star dish dependent on seasonal ingredients. at mava labs, we value a hands-on approach to all of our events, so each supper club will include a workshop and topic discussion.