As one of the collaborations of ACE, Grace Park’s Margarita Forés, Flame Restaurant’s Luis Chikiamko, Restaurant Ibid’s Woo Wai Leong, and VEA’s Vicky Cheng aced this 8-hands dinner
Established last month, the Asian Culinary Exchange (ACE) 2018 flew in high-profile chefs and restaurateurs from around the region to join our prominent Filipino chefs and well-versed foodies to open up much-needed conversation about contemporaneous issues such as sustainability, food waste, and discrimination as well as exchange on current trends. The ACE forum was organised by bestselling cookbook author and food writer Angelo Comsti.
The forum got together Filipino greats like Asia’s Best Female Chef 2016 Margarita Forés, Tippi Tambunting, Myke Sarthou and Bruce Ricketts with Singapore’s Sun Kim (Meta), Rishi Naleendra (Cheek by Jowl), Keirin Buck (Le Bon Funk), Bryan Koh (Milkier Pigs and Violet Gold author) and Woo Wai Leong (Restaurant Ibid); as well as Hong Kong’s Vicky Cheng (VEA) and Joe Villanueva (The Wise King), and Thailand’s ThiTid Tassannakajohn (Le Du).
The following evening, creativity ran amok via collaboration dinners galore as ACE’s participants joined creative forces and hands. At Hey Handsome, Nicco Santos united with Sun Kim; Rishi Naleendra got behind the kitchen at Helm with Josh Boutwood; Chele Gonzalez worked alongside Keirin Buck at Gallery by Chele; Toyo Eatery saw its very own Jordy Navarra partner up with ThiTid Tassannakajohn; and Joe Villanueva headed up quite the party at Coconut Club.