EA Festival 2025: Invitation to a Banquet

The leading authority on Chinese gastronomy within the English-speaking world, Fuchsia Dunlop was the first Westerner to train at the prestigious Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine and has been studying and writing about Chinese food ever since. Despite being the first truly global cuisine, Chinese food has the distinction of being one of the world’s best-loved culinary traditions and one of the least understood. That’s why Fuchsia’s writings and award-winning cookbooks have done so much to enrich our understanding of Chinese cooking. Her most recent book is Invitation to a Banquet (2023), recounting the history and regional traditions of Chinese cooking through a series of iconic dishes.

This event is supported by the Hong Kong Society.