<< Back to list Alan Wong, Chef/Owner
Alan Wong has made a name for himself internationally with his marriage of different ethnic cooking styles with the finest island-grown ingredients, creating local dishes with a contemporary twist. The James Beard Award winner for Best Chef - Northwest 1996, Wong was a founding member of the Hawaii Regional Cuisine Chefs. Wong was one of 10 U.S. chefs nominated by the Wedgewood Awards for the title of World Master of Culinary Arts in the same year that Alan Wong’s Restaurant was inducted in the Nation’s Restaurant News’ Hall of Fame. Bon Appetit magazine has recognized Chef Wong among its culinary legends as the ‘Master of Hawaii Regional Cuisine’, and Alan Wong’s Restaurant has been ranked by Gourmet magazine twice as the only Honolulu restaurant rated in the top ten among America’s Best Fifty Restaurants.
Chef Wong is the author of New Wave Luau, and ten-time winner of the Hale ‘Aina and Ilima Awards in Hawaii, for ‘Restaurant of the Year’ and ‘Best Restaurant’, respectively. As Chef/Owner of Alan Wong’s Restaurant and The Pineapple Room in Honolulu, Chef Wong also has Alan Wong’s Hawaii in Tokyo Disneyland. pau
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