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NetxtGen Event: Lunar New Year Banquet with Cameron House
Join us for a delicious community celebration for Cameron House and Florence Fang Community Farm.
Lunar New Year Banquet with Cameron House
On Tuesday, 2/24, ring in the Year of the Horse with us at Cameron House in historical Chinatown, San Francisco! As a volunteer-led team of young Asian American chefs, we’re excited to showcase the ever-evolving spirit of Chinese cuisine, all in direct benefit for Cameron House’s Next Gen youth leadership programming and Florence Fang Community Farm.
Click here to purchase your tickets!: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lunar-new-year-banquet-with-cameron-house-tickets-1981028221739?aff=oddtdtcreator
Following dinner, we’ll gallop into a tea mixer featuring:
🎶 Tunes by DJs @redbeans & @sea2sea
🧧 Calligraphy station
🥠 Special appearances from some of our favorite Bay Area AAPI artisans, businesses, and culinary delights such as Four Kings, Now Place, and Unbound Bookstore.
**PLEASE NOTE** Our menu will include a variety of vegan and non-vegan dishes including seafood & pork. Allergens: gluten, nuts and seeds, alliums, dairy. Unfortunately, we are not able to accomodate any dietary substitutions. However, the menu is designed with the intention to make sure every guest of all diets are well-fed.
Attire: Formal/Traditional wear is encouraged.
Parking: Cameron House is located on a one-way street with limited street parking. We recommend the nearest garage: Portsmouth Square Garage at 733 Kearny St.
Wheelchair accessible entrance is located on Joice St.
Please contact Layla at laylashyu@gmail.com for any questions and assistance.
Learn more about these two wonderful orgs here:
https://cameronhouse.org/
https://ffcommunityfarm.org/
恭喜發財! Happy Year of the Horse! We can’t wait to celebrate with you!
Your hosts: Kevin Chen, Nanxi Wang, Layla Yu
Read more about your hosts, chefs, and DJs!
Like most good Asian Boys, Kevin Chen received an engineering degree and worked a corporate job before dishonoring his family to pursue his passion of food. Today, he’s a chef at Four Kings and a writer @kcheneats on Substack. His projects aim to represent the future of Chinese American culture and cuisine for our generation. He enjoys putting ketchup on his wontons.
Nanxi Wang
Nanxi is a popup cook and baker based out of San Francisco. She is inspired by her Bay Area upbringing and her family’s Chinese heritage to approach food as a form of community building, identity formation, and creative expression.
Layla Yu
Born and braised in Stockton, CA, Layla is a Chinese-Egyptian producer and chef bringing stories to life across film, photography, community events, and food. She believes cooking is the innate origin of human creativity, and is infinitely fascinated with how familiar produce and a shared meal bridges us near and far. Outside of event production, she’ll likely be chatting to neighborhood aunties, chronicling the various techniques for a single dish.
Red Beans (DJ)
redbeans 红豆 is a duo of Will + Jason that prioritizes sharing meaningful music & space, building intentional relationships, and taking things slow ♡
Sea2Sea (DJ)
Sea2Sea is a community-rooted diasporic sound project exploring music through echoes of Việt memory, ritual, and connection. Sometimes by way of radio and live performance, the music honors renewal, transition, and new beginnings, carried across generations and geographies.