This week, to celebrate the Year of the Monkey, Danny Bowien and Angela Dimayuga hosted an elaborate potluck dinner at Mission Chinese Food, inviting chef friends from near and far to collaborate: Sqirl’s Jessica Koslow, Vinegar Hill House’s Jean Adamson, Tartine Bakery’s Chad Robertson and Richard Hart, Achilles Heel’s Lee Desrosiers, Saltie’s Caroline Fidanza and Rebecca Collerton, El Rey’s Gerardo Gonzalez, Contra’s Jeremiah Stone, Table Table’s Hannah Black and Carla Perez-Gallardo, David Tanis, Dimes’ Alissa Wagner and Sabrina Sousa, and OddFellows Ice Cream Co.’s Sam Mason. (Got all that?)
Throughout the day, the chefs prepped — sometimes together — in Mission Chinese Food’s kitchen, and then they served their many, many dishes buffet-style to a crowd that included Charlie Rose, Padma Lakshmi, and Aziz Ansari. And, as if that wasn’t enough food, Dimayuga cooked up even more, like green-tea noodles, salt-cod fried rice, and turmeric-tapioca dumplings. Take a look at how it all went down:
