Membership

Membership type

Individual Member

For chefs, industry professionals and food lovers: association events, training and exchange.

Corporate Member

For restaurants and culinary businesses: brand endorsement, industry introductions and promotional support.

Chef Committee

For senior chefs and master cooks: passing on technique, judging, and shaping industry standards.

Member Benefits

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Industry resource matchmaking

The association introduces members to supply chains, ingredient and equipment suppliers and professional services, and connects business and investment resources across the U.S. and China. Members have first refusal on association trade missions and negotiations.

Skills training

Regular master-chef demonstrations, focused courses on knife work and heat control, and training in food safety and operations management. Master Chef Committee members teach in person; members get priority enrolment and reduced fees.

Brand endorsement

Member restaurants may display the association's member mark, are listed in the member restaurant directory on this site, and are promoted through the association's media channels, events and publications.

Priority access to events

Members get priority registration for association events — the food culture festival, industry forums and tasting dinners. Corporate members also receive exhibitor space and co-host privileges.

Member Restaurants

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The Peninsula World Seafood Restaurant Shanghailander Palace Szechuan Restaurant Jingfuju Roast Duck Yunnan Crossing-the-Bridge Rice Noodles ACE Restaurant Equipment Inc 司徒华富 Taibat Restaurant ChaTraMue Linglong Authentic Soup Dumplings HYC Consulting Engineers, Inc. HomeCo Group Delta Hotels by Marriott Ontario Airport Northern Fusion Cuisine

Member Restaurant Directory

The Peninsula Cantonese The Hilton San Gabriel banquet hall, where the association held its founding ceremony and Lunar New Year gala. View details → World Seafood Restaurant Cantonese Seafood A Cantonese seafood house on Garfield Avenue in Alhambra — dim sum at lunch, stir-fries in the evening. View details → Shanghailander Palace Shanghainese One of the Los Angeles area's most representative Shanghainese kitchens, known for braised pork and crystal shrimp. View details → Szechuan Restaurant Sichuan A Sichuan kitchen on Duarte Road in Monrovia — numbing, hot and aromatic, home-style and classic alike. View details → Jingfuju Roast Duck 京菜 · Peking Duck Old-Beijing roast duck and Beijing home cooking — zhajiangmian, baodu and fried sausage among the classics. View details → Yunnan Crossing-the-Bridge Rice Noodles Yunnan Yunnan crossing-the-bridge rice noodles: a pot of hot broth with everything cooked at the table. View details → ACE Restaurant Equipment Inc Restaurant Equipment Restaurant equipment supplier, serving member restaurants with kitchen fit-out and support. View details → 司徒华富 View details → Taibat Restaurant Halal Taibat serves halal Chinese and Uyghur cooking — hand-pulled noodles, lamb soup and cumin beef from the northwest. View details → ChaTraMue Thai Tea The classic Thai tea brand — Thai milk tea and cold-brewed teas. View details → Linglong Authentic Soup Dumplings Soup Dumplings Hand-folded soup dumplings — thin skins, full of broth, a Jiangnan classic. View details → HYC Consulting Engineers, Inc. Restaurant Design Restaurant design specialists — mechanical, plumbing, electrical and food facility design, founded 1994. View details → HomeCo Group Kitchen & Bath A manufacturer and distributor of cabinets, countertops and kitchen and bath products, with distribution across the United States. View details → Delta Hotels by Marriott Ontario Airport Hotel Delta Hotels by Marriott Ontario Airport — the association's member venue in the Inland Empire. View details → Northern Fusion Cuisine Northeastern Northeastern Chinese cooking and Sichuan dishes, with live music at weekends — built for family meals and group celebrations. View details →

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