We'll get to that! First, the point of this thing, in Hu's words: "I’ve wanted to do a food festival for years, and while I’ve done a ton of them myself I wanted to give customers something a bit different than the usual festival fair. I’m somewhat obsessed with cultural heritage and understanding the roots of food I thought it’d be fun to eat stuff that is more about where the chefs are from vs where they’re cooking now. For some people they’re fortunate where they’re already cooking things of their own culture, or own their own restaurant so they don’t care so much about the labels, but for others you don’t always get the chance to do that and I thought it’d be a treat to see and taste that sort of thing. I just think that in a city like shanghai we’re blessed to have an international community of chefs, many of them cooking their non native cuisines, and it’d be fun to see what they actually consider their “home” cuisine. Plus I had the chance to try some of their food at private events or house parties etc, and they’re freaking awesome. Hardeeps Indian food is great. Lorraine, who isn’t a chef by training, makes amazing southeast Asian food because of who she grew up with. Good shit should be shared." So there you go. Expect a lot of stuff to be shared. A lot of heart on the plate cooking. And probably a lot of drunk chefs as the festival moves into the evening hours.
