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Wok Star Supper Club x Hutong Miami: A Curated Northern Chinese Feast with a Miami Twist

March 9, 2025 By Eleanor Hoh Leave a Comment

We kick off 2025 with a special Wok Star Supper Club at Hutong Miami—a world-renowned, contemporary Northern Chinese restaurant in Brickell. Join us Sunday, March 16, at 6 PM for an exclusive evening of exquisite flavors, curated menu, and curated like-minded guests.


Secure your spot if you’re READY!!

The experience begins with a Meet & Greet at Hutong’s stunning bar, where guests can get to know each other and sip a welcome complimentary Dona Rosalba Rosé.  Guests can also enjoy a robust list of exotic cocktails like Comfortably Numb and Zen Garden, available a la carte.  

The curated menu features dim sum dishes like Lamb Bao & Wagyu Beef Mille-feuille, or a Truffle Mushroom Bao for vegetarians. For the main event, Hutong’s signature dishes take center stage like Peking Duck. 

MENU

• View normal & Vegetarian menu.
• This is a fixed menu, no substitutions please. 
• Let service know on event night if you want vegetarian. 

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ENTERTAINMENT

A dazzling show-stopping Flaming Peking Duck presentation will set you on fire(not literally!).  As night falls, the restaurant’s 70-foot hand-carved wood wall comes alive with a dazzling light show.

This exclusive dining experience is by reservation only with limited seating. 

EVENT DETAILS:

Sunday, March 16, 6pm
Hutong Miami
600 Brickell Ave., Brickell
Valet $15 flat rate or self park for $10

COST:

Inspired by the auspicious number 8, the Prix Fixe menu is $88 per person (including tax & tip) for 88 lucky guests. 

Please make sure you take these steps…
CLICK ON…

– Experiences <—
– Wok Star Supper Club <—
– choose size of your party
– choose 6:00pm
– under Dining Room, select STANDARD seating
– payment info

Secure your spot!!!

So looking forward to seeing you again and meeting new friends. 

SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 6pm

Filed Under: blog, Wok Star Supper Club Tagged With: Miami chefs, Miami Event, Miami foodies, Wok Star Eleanor Hoh, Wok Star Supper Club

Epic South Beach Wine and Food Festival is Arriving!

January 24, 2025 By Eleanor Hoh Leave a Comment

Epic South Beach Wine and Food Festival is arriving, February 20-23! You’ll get to hobnob with over 500+ Food Network chefs, stars from Tik Tok, Foodie Influencers & Winemakers and spirit producers at over 100 events. All coming together to EAT. DRINK.EDUCATE. for this annual culinary experience that draws fans from all over the world!

Left to right: Chef Eric Adjepong, Brian Kelly, The Points Guy, Chef Andrew Zimmern and Kelly Blanco, NBC6, entertainment reporter.
Get to hobnob with celebrities!

This year, I’m manifesting attending sold out Vietnamese cooking class with Tam Tam chef/owner, Tam and Dim Sum Brunch at Hutong with Dale Talde. 

Dim Sum Station at Director’s VIP Welcome Happy Hour hosted by
The Setai Hotel

BUY TICKETS…

You can view ALL the events
by DAY HERE or by CATEGORIES HERE!

Peking Duck Galore at The Setai Hotel

The 24th South Beach Wine & Food Festival starts with founder & director, Lee Brian Schrager’s Director’s Welcome VIP Happy Hour! Last year was at The Setai Hotel in South Beach and wow, what a start! Peking Duck anyone? 

Setai Hotel
Love these small desserts!
Chefs Aarti Sequeira & Jet Tila counting down to let us in!
Hakkasan’s Spicy Dumplings were sensational!

ASIAN NIGHT MARKET

Happy to hear this year’s Asian Night Market has been elevated as the CLOSING PARTY on the sand! Hosted by Chefs Andrew Zimmern, Jet Tila and Aarti Sequeira with a special performance by Rev Run on Sunday, February 23! I’m stoked for this!

Nicole Ponseca
2 Korean Girls

Catch my chats with chefs sharing their innovative & delish concepts.

CHEF INTERVIEWS

CHEF INTERVIEWS HERE!

Foodiecon Host venue, The W Hotel garden
Food Inflencers who presented

FOODIECON

@foodiecon brings tons of foodie stars, cookbook authors, bloggers and you get inside scoop how they have become so successful. Once again held at The W Hotel in South Beach.  

Goya Foods’ Grand Tasting Village on the sand under two Huge tents!

FINALÉ

Finalé is always the most fun…Goya FoodsFinalé ’ Grand Tasting Village! It’s a great way to get tastings from popular restaurants and up and coming private chefs get to showcase what they specialize in. 

Yelp winner 2 years:
Krzpy’s Pork Belly!
Cooking demos by celebrity chefs packs a crowd. You can take breaks and start over, ha, ha!

To date, SOBEWFF has raised $40m for @fiuhospitality students getting into hospitality. It’s a HUGE production and over 1,000 students are involved to roll out these culinary events.

BUY TICKETS ASAP AND TREAT YOURSELVES TO THE MOST EPIC WINE & FOOD FESTIVAL!!!
HERE!

PS I love this ARTICLE that gives all the useful details like where to park, kind of bag allowed, etc. Personally, I ALWAYS use a car ride for a no-hassle experience!

Do share your experience in comment!

Wok Star Eleanor & Fiona

Filed Under: blog, SOBEWFF Tagged With: "miami foodies", "Miami Things To Do", SOBEWFF, south beach event, wine and food event

New Upscale MiMi Chinese Perfects Regional Chinese Cuisine Favorites!

January 17, 2025 By Eleanor Hoh Leave a Comment

New Upscale MiMi Chinese Perfects Regional Chinese Cuisine Favorites! Choosing MiMi Chinese to celebrate our anniversary was the best decision ever.  It had all the elements we enjoy about dining out…it’s new (opened Dec.21, 2024), it’s got beautiful ambiance, quality food, excellent service, low music and an extra bonus, a little theatrical presentation.

Beautiful red plush sofas and banquettes set the scene!

Started by cofounder and Culinary Director, Chef David Schwartz and Executive Chef Braden Chong. The first Mimi Chinese opened in Toronto, Canada under Big Hug Hospitality Group and was an immediate success. Their decision to open sister restaurant, also called MiMi Chinese at a very iconic Firestone location in South Beach shows they have what it takes to open a restaurant! Don’t be tfooled by a very unassuming entrance with a neon MiMi sign and lush plants.

Unassuming entrance

We got the VIP treatment, thanks to the adorable Freya, their Operations Manager who I met at a Sake event.

Wok Star Eleanor And Freya, Mimi’s Operations Manager

DECOR
You’ll immediately notice a very glamorous and stylish room anchored by red, plush velvety sofas and banquettes against a back wall with contrasting black chairs. The wall murals were lit up and looked like an illustration of birds. The whole design of the long room was very well laid out. It appears to be one of the bays of the Firestone tire shop and what a transformation.

AMBIANCE 
The muted lighting creates an intimate surrounding which is very South Beach. Happy to report the music was low enough so we didn’t have to shout at each other.

Popular bar area

Here’s link to Instagram videos of Chef Braden explaining the dishes and theatrical presentation for Four Foot Noodle Belt!

PERFECTING POPULAR CHINESE FAVORITES
Executive Chef Braden Chong greeted us with an Amuse Bouche (watch video) and also returned several times to explain the dishes.

Amuse Bouche

Shrimp Toast (Guandong, woohoo, where I was born!) This was the best I’ve ever tasted and definitely a MUST order appetizer.

THE BEST SHRIMP TOAST!

Freya sent over Shrimp Toast and Chef Braden brought us Ginger and Scallion Scallop and as Braden says, “reimagine it in Mimi style!” Watch videos on all three explanations.

I love that they served food from different regions like Northern China with more spicy food from Sichuan to Japanese food where Braden had worked at several restaurants.

The dishes I ordered were…

Crossed Arm Chicken Dumplings (Sichuan) nice and al denté with roasted sesame, special soy sauce and red oil.
Very tender, Stir Fried Lamb Leg (Xinjiang) with Chinese Celery, Onion, Green Peppers, Cumin, Cilantro.

And the theatrical presentation, Four Foot Noodle Belt (Sichuan) with grass fed beef, black sesame and long beans. Our lovely server, Hayleigh insisted on bringing Smashed Cucumbers to balance out the spicy Noodle Belt, but we were fine with the level of spiciness. She did a wonderful job (watch video) and of course I discover we have mutual friends.

Smashed Cucumbers with Black Fungus

The service was impeccable, so well trained. The first time I’ve ever experienced serving utensils with spoon and fork automatically laid out on our table whether we had sauce or not! It’s a pet peeve of mine when there’s sauce and not provided a spoon, then wait for it to be brought and the food is not piping hot.

Ended with a very special soft serve swirl with mochi and peanuts (watch video)

What a special and spectacular Anniversary dinner, thank you MiMi!

CONCLUSION
I hope this gives you an idea of what to expect from MiMi Chinese. We are lucky to have MiMi in Miami as there’s not many good Chinese restaurants. I’ve mentioned I’m working on a roundup of Asian restaurants I like in Miami and beyond, stay tuned.

ENJOY! 

Do share in comments what dishes you had there and your POV or if you’re going to visit MiMi?

Filed Under: Asian themed restaurants, blog Tagged With: "Miami Asian food", "Miami restaurant review", "Miami restaurant"

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