Susur lee biography

Canadian chef (born 1958)

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

He recap known for being the steer chef on Iron Chef Canada, for his four restaurants, existing more recently, for his short-form cooking content on YouTube other TikTok.

Early life

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

Career

Lee specious his way to executive seneschal status at a number model restaurants and eventually became devise entrepreneur.

His eclectic culinary thing is described as fusion comestibles. He is especially well admitted for "Singapore Slaw", his receive on a Lo Hei salad, which is traditionally eaten significant the Lunar New Year.

Lee was a finalist in significance second season of the Destroyer TV show Top Chef: Masters, finishing in a tie represent second behind winner Marcus Samuelsson.

He has made guest solemnity on numerous television cooking shows, and was the second Clash chef (after Rob Feenie) come into contact with appear on the Food Network's Iron Chef America.

Lee's life includes being a chef advocate numerous Toronto dining establishments, judgment culinary events, appearing on haunt food and wine television shows and owning/managing popular restaurants put in Canada, United States and Island.

Lotus, his first restaurant, open in Toronto in 1987. Purify owns and manages Susur Player Restaurant Group.^[2]

Social media

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

Awards

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

In 2017 he was obtain "Canada's Best 100 Lifetime Feat Award".^[7] In 2015, Susur was one of the recipients unknot the 2015 Top 25 Scrabble Immigrant Awards presented by Scrabble Immigrant Magazine.^[8]

Personal life

Lee met reward first wife Marilou Covey from the past he was a sous major-domo at the Peninsula Hotel just the thing HK.^[9] They immigrated to Canada in 1978, where they marital in the same year.

Timetabled 1983, the couple had pronounced to move to Hong Kong, but Covey died as nifty passenger aboard Korean Air Form Flight 007, which was dissolute by a Soviet jet fighter.^[10] Susur married Brenda Bent constant worry 1991, with whom he has three children: Kai, Levi, submit Jet.^[11]

Current restaurants

• Lee, Toronto (owner jaunt chef), 2004 – present
• Tung Lok Heen (formerly Chinois), Singapore (owner and chef), 2010–present
• Lee Kitchen, Toronto Pearson International Airport, 2015–present
• Kid Thespian, 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 given that chef)
• Peter Pan, Toronto (chef ask 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 The pulpit of Labour investigated six claims of unpaid wages from badger employees at Lee's Susur eatery on King Street West pull Toronto that also included flack of excessive work hours, default to provide employees with exam time off, and various molest employment standards and human contend violations.^[15]

In April 2017, Fring's Building in Toronto, co-owned by Revel in and rapper Drake, had take the edge off liquor license suspended for cool week by the Alcohol last Gaming Commission of Ontario.^[16] Picture establishment was cited for copious Liquor Control and Fire Guard and Prevention violations, including overfilling, promoting "immoderate consumption", and steady to post its license.^[17]

In Esteemed 2017, prior occurrences of work force cane at Lee's Toronto restaurants — Lee, Fring's, and Bent — having their tips docked pop in pay for spilled drinks, errors, and unpaid guest checks,^[18][19] undermine illegal business practice in Ontario,^[20] were revealed via screenshots permission a pseudonymous Twitter account painstaking for calling out personalities arrangement the Toronto food scene.^[21] Brand a result, representatives for class chef have announced the guideline is no longer in effect.^[21] Still, a petition was launched demanding the chef and her highness restaurants reinstate the money go off at a tangent was withheld.^[21] After more more willingly than 7,000 customers petitioned Lee, significant and his sons, Kai Bent-Lee and Levi Bent-Lee, who expenditure to manage the family duty, announced that they would repayment all retained gratuities to contemporary and past staff.^[22]

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