Welcome to Tasting Kitchen and our fiftieth issue, A Taste of Home. Chinese New Year is a time for family gatherings and honored culinary traditions. In our cover story, we spend a day with someone who is a master of both, renowned home banquet chef Teresa Yiu, also known as Dashijie. During a prolific month last fall, Yiu prepared a series of five epic feasts, served on stunning bespoke RUYI tableware and shared with some of the region’s most discerning gourmands. A Chinese New Year banquet is traditionally served at a round table, symbolizing harmony and togetherness. When it is prepared by a master like Yiu, it also represents the circle of time. With the spinning of the lazy Susan at its center, the table’s succession of honored guests changes over months and years and decades, but the pride of tradition and love of family endure. Happy Chinese New Year.
