The 2012 Luckyrice Festival: Celebrity Chefs Discuss the Asian Food Craze (PHOTOS)

Julie Qiu

LEFT: Tulsi - black pepper coconut shrimp with avocado jhal muri RIGHT: Orson Salicetti for Bombay Sapphire - House-pickled octopus, seaweed, Himalayan salt and dried chile, Lucky Sapphire '75
Photos: Julie Qiu (right)

Buddakan - Edamame dumpling with shallot-sautene broth
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Black Pepper Coconut Shrimp with Avocado Jhal Mur
Courtesy of Luckyrice

Asiate - crispy buttered rice, tuna tartare, konbu
Julie Qiu

Ma Peche - Fluke Tartare with avocado, blood orange, black rice
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The Lucky Rice Grand Feast at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City on Friday, May 5th, 2011.
Richard Patterson / Lucky Rice 2011

Bar Boulud - Pandan rice pudding, jasmine gelee, fresh julieene of champagne, mango, orange tuile
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Tadashi Ono, Matsuri (closed now) - Tuna sashimi with avocado wasabi sauce
Courtesy of Luckyrice

Orson Salicetti for Bombay Sapphire - House-pickled octopus, seaweed, Himalayan salt and dried chile, Lucky Sapphire '75
Julie Qiu

Chef Todd English at the Lucky Rice Grand Feast at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City on Friday, May 5th, 2011.
Richard Patterson / Lucky Rice 2011

Chef Masaharu Morimoto
Todd Leong

Ming Tsai at the Lucky Rice 2011 Talk + Taste Brunch at the Astor Center in New York City on Sunday, May 8th, 2011.
Richard Patterson / Lucky Rice 2011

Chefs Eric Ripert and David Chang
Courtesy of Luckyrice
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