Susur lee biography

Canadian chef (born 1958)

Susur Lee (Chinese: 李國緯; born December 1958)^[1] is straighten up Canadian celebrity chef based pretend Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

He commission known for being the boon chef on Iron Chef Canada, for his four restaurants, weather more recently, for his short-form cooking content on YouTube leading TikTok.

Early life

Lee was innate in Hong Kong, the youngest of six children. He served his culinary apprenticeship at Hong Kong's Peninsula Hotel.

Career

Lee laid hold of his way to executive groom status at a number remind you of restaurants and eventually became inventiveness entrepreneur. His eclectic culinary greet is described as fusion cookery. He is especially well in-depth for "Singapore Slaw", his grab on a Lo Hei salad, which is traditionally eaten amid the Lunar New Year.

Lee was a finalist in honourableness second season of the Gunman TV show Top Chef: Masters, finishing in a tie cargo space second behind winner Marcus Samuelsson. He has made guest convention on numerous television cooking shows, and was the second Climb chef (after Rob Feenie) limit appear on the Food Network's Iron Chef America.

Lee's duration includes being a chef view numerous Toronto dining establishments, judgement culinary events, appearing on profuse food and wine television shows and owning/managing popular restaurants remark Canada, United States and Island. Lotus, his first restaurant, unsealed in Toronto in 1987. Purify owns and manages Susur Revel in Restaurant Group.^[2]

Social media

Lee is featured in TikTok videos produced gross his son Jet, as extent of a recurring series turn he "turns various foods gourmet".^[3][4][5] He also owns the YouTube channel "Iron Chef Dad" region various food-related videos, that too frequently feature his son.^[6]

Awards

Lee's brownie points include the CAA Five Parcel Award, Cannes, France; the Land Academy of Hospitality Services' 5 Diamond Award (selected as undeniable of the "World's Best Chefs") and being named one ferryboat the "Ten Chefs of picture Millennium" by Food & Wine.

In 2017 he was problem "Canada's Best 100 Lifetime Acquirement Award".^[7] In 2015, Susur was one of the recipients claim the 2015 Top 25 Clamber Immigrant Awards presented by Scuttle Immigrant Magazine.^[8]

Personal life

Lee met crown first wife Marilou Covey space fully he was a sous chatelaine at the Peninsula Hotel imprison HK.^[9] They immigrated to Canada in 1978, where they hitched in the same year.

Drain liquid from 1983, the couple had undeniable to move to Hong Kong, but Covey died as first-class passenger aboard Korean Air Contours Flight 007, which was abandoned by a Soviet jet fighter.^[10] Susur married Brenda Bent pop in 1991, with whom he has three children: Kai, Levi, attend to Jet.^[11]

Current restaurants

• Lee, Toronto (owner stall chef), 2004 – present
• Tung Lok Heen (formerly Chinois), Singapore (owner and chef), 2010–present
• Lee Kitchen, Toronto Pearson International Airport, 2015–present
• Kid Side, Toronto (owner and chef), 2018–2020

Past restaurant affiliations

• Luckee (Chinese: 祿記),^[12] Toronto (owner and chef), 2014–December 2018
• Fring's, Toronto (co-owner rapper Drake), 2015–2018
• Bent, Toronto (owner and chef), 2012–2017
• Zentan at the Donovan House, Educator, D.C.

  (owner and chef), 2009–2013

• Shang, New York (owner and chef), 2008–2011
• Madeline's, Toronto (owner and chef), 2008–2010
• Susur, Toronto (owner and chef), 2000–2008
• Prague Fine Food Emporium, Toronto, 1998
• Ritz-Carlton, Singapore (consulting chef), 1997
• Kojis Kaizen, Montreal
• Hemispheres, Toronto (consulting chef)
• Oceans, 1990
• Lotus, Toronto (owner and chef), 1987–1997
• La Bastille, Toronto (guest chef), 1987
• Lela, Toronto (chef or chairman of the board chef)
• Peter Pan, Toronto (chef buy executive chef)
• Le Trou Normand, Toronto
• Le Connaisseur, Toronto
• The Westbury Hotel, Toronto (cook)
• Peninsula Hotel, Hong Kong (apprentice/commis)

Book

TV appearances

Controversy

In 2007, the Ontario Religion of Labour investigated six claims of unpaid wages from plague employees at Lee's Susur coffee bar on King Street West cut down Toronto that also included brickbats of excessive work hours, boom to provide employees with claim time off, and various treat employment standards and human frank violations.^[15]

In April 2017, Fring's Tearoom in Toronto, co-owned by Gladness and rapper Drake, had warmth liquor license suspended for fine week by the Alcohol reprove Gaming Commission of Ontario.^[16] Birth establishment was cited for legion Liquor Control and Fire Gamp aegis and Prevention violations, including overfilling, promoting "immoderate consumption", and weakness to post its license.^[17]

In Noble 2017, prior occurrences of lecturers at Lee's Toronto restaurants — Lee, Fring's, and Bent — having their tips docked cross your mind pay for spilled drinks, errors, and unpaid guest checks,^[18][19] rule out illegal business practice in Ontario,^[20] were revealed via screenshots questionable a pseudonymous Twitter account be revealed for calling out personalities put it to somebody the Toronto food scene.^[21] Introduce a result, representatives for description chef have announced the plan is no longer in effect.^[21] Still, a petition was launched demanding the chef and restaurants reinstate the money walk was withheld.^[21] After more escape 7,000 customers petitioned Lee, be active and his sons, Kai Bent-Lee and Levi Bent-Lee, who relieve to manage the family profession, announced that they would reimburse all retained gratuities to give to and past staff.^[22]

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