The Landmark Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong’s Michelin-starred Culinary Director, Chef Richard Ekkebus is delighted to announce that Amber’s next exclusive Four Hands Dinners on the 5th and 6th November 2018 feature a fabulous collaboration with Italian chef Luca Fantin of Il Ristorante — Luca Fantin, situated in the Bvlg...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Leave it to fun-loving Bavarians in Germany to solve a problem with a precise, practical party solution. Munich breweries early in the 19th century added to open-air dining and beer-drinking with “Biergartens” as a way to use planted gardens above cellars to keep their lagers cool enough to ferment und...
(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 LUCK...
(Roberta R. Deen, writer/stylist) The impeccable packaging was the first thing that impressed me about Harney & Sons when the gift box of sample teas arrived. The elegant black and gold gift box, with its embossed gold logo, emerged from the humble cardboard shipping carton. The sample box contained four black and...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Culinary mastermind, Chef Danny Elmaleh, shines with his award-winning sharable middle eastern plates at the third award-winning Cleo location in Los Angeles, by sbe. Every refined Japanese-Moroccan dish makes a statement, yet feels effortless and satisfying. Even his older, original menu items, such ...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) New TOSAI SUSHI in the posh food court of Westfield Century City is guaranteed to the quality of the finest Asian market fish and seafood. That’s because Tonny Soesanto created it. Tonny started first as a restaurateur 30 years ago a few miles away in Beverly Hills with Edoko. He eventually f...
(Gerry Furth-Sides, photos by Roberta Deen). Chinese cuisine and culture have influenced our way of eating for centuries in healthy, delicious ways. The wise Chinese always seem to have known psychologically what science now proves: the stronger the intentions for positive ideas we put into our consciousness, the stronger ...
(Roberta Deen, photos by Roberta Deen) The new China Lights festival in Las Vegas, and in Arkansas, and the growing popularity of historic Chinese New Year celebrations show how important this Asian holiday is becoming with mainstream America. The Chinese New Year Festival and Golden Dragon Parade in Los Angeles, des...
Chinese Fortune Cookies, oranges and “the Best of the Cheap Stuff” alcohol play a prominent part in the production of Lauren Yee’s “King of the Yees”. Our heroine must produce them in order to rescue her father. The play is a lively reminder of how Asian cultures are rich with symbolism. R...
(Gerry Furth-Sides, Donald Herman) Notes of Japanese and other Asian cuisines skip across the new Yamashiro Brunch Menu of international classics. Drama to this unique dining experience starts building right at the start of the rural winding drive up Franklin, just blocks from bustling Hollywood and Highland. The brun...
Gerry Furth-Sides 
Barbara Hansen 
Chef-owner Alain Cohen 
Roberta Deen 
Jose Martinez 
Nivedita Basu 