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Oakland, California
Owner/Chef FuseBOX
My culinary interest began when I was 11: Instead of watching Saturday morning cartoons, I watched PBS cooking shows on the weekend, Julia Childs, The Frugal Gourmet, and my favorite, Great Chefs, Great Cities. Then at 13, my culinary career began when my mom opened her award winning Korean restaurant, Chung’s Restaurant, in Guam. I’ve been in the food industry ever since. At one point, I was a bagel maker, a butcher, a fishmonger, a cook and eventual chef at another Korean restaurant. Then I started my own catering company, KDR Catering, in 1997. I am currently the Culinary Director of Robert Farid Karimi’s “Diabetes of Democracy: The Revolution Starts in the Kitchen” project.