Here’s a way I’d like to spend a Wednesday night: Asiatique is hosting a Passion for Fusion dinner on March 26. The event begins at 6:30 with a cocktail and hors d’oeuvre reception followed by a five-course dinner prepared by Chef Looi. If you don’t want to kick your salivary glands into high gear, don’t read […]

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Asiatique chef-co-owner, Peng Looi, confirmed talk heard this weekend that he and his partners will open a new Asiatique Bistro and Lounge in West Chester, Ohio, which is just outside of Cincinnati en route to Dayton.
Looi called the new spot “a marriage” of his Asiatique and August Moon concepts and said it will be housed […]

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Chef Peng Looi, owner of August Moon Bistro and co-owner-executive chef at Asiatique, has received the Jefferson Evans Award, a prestigious honor given minority chefs in America.
Evans was the first African-American graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., in 1947.
“It’s very gratifying … and my biggest (one) because it’s a national […]

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