Benjamin Law Instagram – Pouring one out for our queen of Asian queer excellence today, over the news she’s hanging up her restaurant hat in June. ❤️🔥
When I worked at a bookshop, I sold so many – and coveted – @kylie_kwong cookbooks. When we moved to Sydney, Billy Kwong was *the* special occasion restaurant for us, and the first place I booked when my late uncle visited from overseas. More recently, Lucky Kwong has been a lunch-time revelation.
If you’ve eaten Kylie’s food, you’ve tasted how seamlessly she integrates sustainable native Australian ingredients – Davidson plums! Meal worms! Crickets! – into Cantonese cooking. It’s her food that made me realise “Chinese-Australian” cuisine can be its own distinct and unique thing.
Kylie: congratulations on everything you achieved with Billy and Lucky. Can’t wait to see your @abciview Australian Story episode tonight; can’t wait to see what you do next. Big love to you, Nell and Lucky.
Thank you, chef. x
P.S. Coming from a hospo fam, I can tell you even the fanciest restaurants often make the smallest of margins. If you have spare dimes, keep supporting the cafes and restaurants you love the most. Especially @_luckykwong, between now and June! | Posted on 20/May/2024 04:37:28
