{"id":16771,"date":"2019-02-01T11:55:46","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T19:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/?p=16771"},"modified":"2019-02-05T12:02:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T20:02:09","slug":"recap-inaugural-spring-festival-fundraising-gala-at-parq-vancouver-presented-by-peaceful-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/recap-inaugural-spring-festival-fundraising-gala-at-parq-vancouver-presented-by-peaceful-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"Recap: Inaugural Spring Festival Fundraising Gala at Parq Vancouver, Presented by Peaceful Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was honoured to be invited by Charlie Huang, the owner of Peaceful Restaurant,<\/a> to attend the inaugural Spring Festival<\/strong> Gala<\/strong>, which also founded by Mr. Huang.\u00a0 Joined by\u00a0over 600 other guests from the Vancouver diverse community at Parq Vancouver, the evening was highlighted with beautiful culinary creations, live dance and musical performances, a live auction, and show-stopping food demonstrations by renowned Chinese Chefs.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

One of the biggest highlights of the evening is the food demonstration shows by renowned chefs from China.\u00a0 \u201cPeaceful Restaurant is very excited to promote the collaboration of Chinese and Western food culture. We are thrilled to bring these celebrated chefs from China to demonstrate cooking skills rarely seen in North America.\u201d\u00a0 Traditionally, Spring Festival Gala is a celebration of the Chinese New Year with cultural and musical performances. But this year’s chef demonstration shows added much more excitement.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> \u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The renowned Chefs from China are:<\/p>\n

Chef Chen Yihong<\/strong> is gold medalist at the National Chinese Food Innovation Competition<\/strong>. He also helmed the of 60th Birthday banquet for Princess Sirindhorn of Thailand.\u00a0 He demonstrated tofu carving.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Chef Zhao Bin<\/strong> has won\u00a0Time Out Magazine Creative Chef Award, a Top-10 chef at the\u00a0International Chinese Cuisine Awards,\u00a0 ranked 6th in\u00a0China National BEST 50 Star Chefs \u2013 6th Place. He showed us the technique of how to make a piece of fish fillet paper-thin.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Chef Yu Shiqing<\/strong> was awarded the title of Chinese Culinary Master. A gold medalist at\u00a0China’s National Cooking Competition in pastry, she was also inducted\u00a0into \u201cBeijing Culinary Masters Hall of Fame\u201d.\u00a0 She made us a Royal Palace pastry from the Qing Dynasty, the Cloud Bean Cake.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Vancouver’s renowned Chef Juno Kim<\/strong> is here to showcase his “East Meets West” creations for the Chinese New Year. His version of the Beijing Duck and the Dumplings are visually stunning as usual.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Gala also hosted the International Food Culture Award Ceremony,<\/strong> organized by World Federation of Chinese Catering Industry, China Educational Channels, Canada Catering Association, and BC Asian Restaurant Cafe Owners Association. It is great to see the number of amazing Chinese restaurants in BC were recognized by the industry.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Proceeds of the event go to\u00a0BC Children\u2019s Hospital\u2019s\u00a0<\/strong>Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children Enhancement Initiative<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0 which will provide pediatric health care and better the lives of countless kids and families in British Columbia.\u00a0\u00a0The auction hosted by Fred Lee has contributed tremendously and brought the evening to the climax.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The dinner of the evening was prepared by the culinary team at Parq Vancouer.\u00a0\u00a0\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was honoured to be invited by Charlie Huang, the owner of Peaceful Restaurant, to attend the inaugural Spring Festival Gala, which also founded by Mr. Huang.\u00a0 Joined by\u00a0over 600 other guests from the Vancouver diverse community at Parq Vancouver, the evening was highlighted with beautiful culinary creations, live dance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[303,177,300,302,97],"tags":[450],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/4374C6DC-EB98-449A-9FD7-A58F889386FF.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16771"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16799,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16771\/revisions\/16799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}