(Gerry Furth-Sides) LUCKYRICE Festival 2018 in DTLA, “Breaking Bao” is a must-go:  International Asian celebrity culinary stars and popular local chefs will be sharing their family recipes and stories passed down from generation to generation in this year’s exciting focus of We were already impressed with Luckyrice when its focus on Asian LA remained true.

Hosting this event is world-renowned, irrepressible Chef SusurLee, who “paves the future of global Asian culture,” and his sons levibentlee, Kai and Jetbentlee. It’s a family affair in the Bent-Lee kitchen for this event.  For more information, play see Breaking Bao Intergenerational Feast.

The power of intergenerational cuisine beautifully pulls together the focus of founder Danielle Chang, who created LUCKYRICE to follow her lofty, yet life-long, passion to create a platform for Asian culture.

Los Angeles mainstays that are seldom on the event circuit include the thriving jam-packed Parks BBQ.  One of our favorites (another Korean restaurant owner first took us there, cooked for us and even fed us!)

Popular local chefs include Nguyen Tran of ButtonMash and Starry Kitchen. 

Acclaimed high-end restaurant local chefs include Chef Brandon Kida of the award-winning Hinoki and the Bird in west Los Angeles.

We were happy to be at the first LUCKYRICE evening at a funky Hollywood nightclub, sponsored by American Express, the first annual tour event.  LUCKYRICE carries on the mantle of another fantastically well-organized Asian charity food event that sadly angled away from strictly Asian cuisine in order to attract their young professional Asian audience.

It seems that founder Danielle Chang will always highlight Asian cuisine because she created LUCKYRICE to follow her lofty, yet life-long, passion to create a platform for Asian culture.  She inviting message: “Come taste the family dishes of our favorite chefs and learn the culinary history through their stories” in classes, events and TV shows.  (http://localfoodeater.com/danielle-chang-announces-lucky-chow-season-2/)

You can feel the passion of her Creative Director, Christine Wong, who will be cooking recipes from her upcoming book with her daughter at the event.  She is the perfect example of the ambitious LUCKYRICE goal to showcase Asian family dishes (@conscious cooking). http://localfoodeater.com/chefspotlight/chef-christine-wong-luckyrice-creative-director-yommme-founder/.

LUCKYRICE Festival 2018 “Breaking Bao” brings young and old together by way of highlighting generations of special occasion, holiday and everyday family meals, along with home remedy dishes, that make up the the story of Angeleno Asian cuisine. 

“LUCKYRICE” overall creates experiential content that cultivates and celebrates the foods and cultures of Asia. Best known for the eponymous Feast, over the past nine years, LUCKYRICE has produced over 25 food festivals across North America, and countless private events for clients, featuring cuisines from every channel of the Asian and Asian Fusion Diaspora. Over the past nine years, LUCKYRICE has fed over 50 thousand people and made an estimated 8 billion impressions through social media and traditional.

Founder Chang’s career has always revolved around pop culture, story telling and entrepreneurship.   Danielle is the founder of the LUCKYRICE Festival, a nationwide showcase of Asian food culture in the U.S. For LUCKY CHOW, she has put together both iconic and rising star chefs to showcase current Asian culinary culture, and the stories behind why our tastebuds are gravitating East.

Born in Taipei, Danielle learned from an early age that food + family = a recipe for happiness. She learned how to make zongzi from her 98 year old Shanghai grandmother and grew up eating chicken feet in Houston when Asian food (and Asians) were a novelty.

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