Sam Choy

Cooking style	Pacific rim cuisine
Current restaurant(s) Sam Choy's Diamond Head (Kapahulu), Sam Choy's Breakfast, Lunch, and Crab (Iwilei)

Sam Choy is a chef, restaurateur, and television personality known as a founding contributor of "Pacific rim cuisine".^[1] Choy is an alumnus of the Kapiolani Community College Culinary Arts program.^[2] One of his first jobs as a chef was at The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. He would then return to Hawaii, where he eventually opened a chain of restaurants.^[3]

In 1991, Choy founded the Poke Festival and Recipe Contest.

In 2004, Choy was awarded the James Beard Foundation Award for Sam Choy's Kaloko in Kailua-Kona, on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Choy has appeared in several Food TV programs, including Ready.. Set... Cook! and Iron Chef America. He is good friends with Emeril Lagasse^[4], who has appeared on Choy's TV show Sam Choy's Kitchen on KHNL. Lagasse has also mentioned Choy by name several times in his TV shows; one of those times he was making Poke on his live TV show, and added peanut butter to the Poke - Choy's secret ingredient. Choy has also very recently designed special Hawaiian inspired dishes for American Airlines first class passengers to and from Hawaii.

Contents 1 Publications 2 Restaurants 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Publications

• Sam Choy, U'I Goldsberry, & Steven Goldsberry. (1999). Sam Choy's Island Flavors
• Sam Choy. (2002). Sam Choy's Polynesian Kitchen: More Than 150 Authentic Dishes from One of the World's Most Delicious and Overlooked Cuisines
• Sam Choy, Lynn Cook, and Douglas Peebles. (2003). Sam Choy & the Makaha Sons' A Hawaiian Luau.
• Elizabeth Meahl. (2004). Sam Choy's Little Hawaiian Poke Cookbook

[edit] Restaurants

• Sam Choy's Breakfast, Lunch, and Crab (Iwilei)
• Sam Choy's (Tumon Bay, Guam)

[edit] See also

• Cuisine of Hawaii
• Iron Chef America
• George Mavrothalassitis
• Poke (food)
• Alan Wong
• Roy Yamaguchi

[edit] References

1. ^ Tsai, Michael (2006-07-02). "Pacific Rim Cuisine". Honolulu Advertiser (Honolulu Advertiser). http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/150/sesq6food. Retrieved 2007-09-19. 
2. ^ "Sam Choy: Biography". Food Network. http://www1.foodtv.com/celebrities/choybio/0,7213,,00.html. Retrieved 2007-09-19. 
3. ^ Choy, Sam. "Sam Choy's Island Flavors". Global Gourmet. http://www.globalgourmet.com/food/special/1999/samchoy/. Retrieved 2007-09-19. 
4. ^ "Emeril Live". Food Network (Food Network). 2007-07-06. http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/show_em/episode/0,1976,FOOD_9959_49857,00.html. Retrieved 2007-09-19. 

[edit] External links

• samchoy.com Choy's restaurant chain
• Food Network biography

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