Join us in celebrating Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at our annual AANHPI Luncheon. This is a special luncheon featuring Hudson Yang “Fresh Off the Boat (ABC)” and “Crash Course Cuisine with Hudson Yang (National Geographic)”.  We also promote our Asian Restaurant Month Directory with encouraging locals to dining throughout the city throughout the month of May.

Date: Friday, May 2, 2025 (11:00 AM – 1:00 PM) (CDT)
Location: Ocean Palace Restaurant
11215 Bellaire Blvd. Suite D
Houston, TX 77072 United States

Hudson Yang
Bio:

Hudson Yang, named by Variety, The Wrap and other publications as a rising star to watch in young Hollywood, spent six years as irrepressible protagonist Eddie on ABC’s historic Asian American family sitcom Fresh Off the Boat. His performance garnered him multiple NAACP Image Awards nominations for Outstanding Performance by a Youth, and Teen Choice Awards nominations as Choice Scene Stealer in 2016 and Outstanding TV Comedy Actor in 2017 and 2018. Yang has also appeared on Family Guy, Disney’s Sophia the First, Liv and Maddie and The Lion Guard, Universal Kids’ Where’s Waldo and PBS’s Cyberchase. Most recently, he was the lead in the award-winning indie thriller feature film Honor Student, and can now be seen on his food travel show, Crash Course Cuisine with Hudson Yang, an original series he developed through his production company Huje Media, now airing on the National Geographic Channel.

Jeff Yang

Bio:

JEFF YANG has been observing, exploring, and writing about the Asian American community for over thirty years. He launched one of the first Asian American national magazines, A. Magazine, in the late ‘Nineties and early 2000s, and now writes regularly for The Guardian, CNN, Slate, and elsewhere. He has written three books—Jackie Chan’s New York Times bestselling memoir I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action; Once Upon a Time in China, a history of the cinemas of Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Mainland; and Eastern Standard Time: A Guide to Asian Influence on American Culture, and most recently coauthored the New York Times bestselling RISE: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now and THE GOLDEN SCREEN: The Movies That Made Asian America. His first movie as screenwriter, A GREAT DIVIDE, hits streaming platforms in November and the first season of the food journey show he developed and sold with his son Hudson Yang, CRASH COURSE CUISINE, can now be seen on National Geographic. He’s currently writing a reimagined Monkey King graphic novel for the new imprint THE LAB and working with screen legend James Hong on Hong’s forthcoming memoir, due out from Simon & Schuster in early 2026.