Nguyen Tran is one-half, Chief Instigator and “Social Media Addict” of the Downtown Pan-Asian eatery, Starry Kitchen. Nguyen and his wife Thi originally started Starry Kitchen in May 2009 as an illegal+underground restaurant experiment out of the back of their apartment literally built on Facebook, Twitter & Yelp. Six months later, their apartment became the number one Asian Fusion listing in all of Los Angeles on Yelp. In Feb 2010, they went  “legit” and opened a brick+mortar restaurant with no prior restaurant experience serving their formerly “underground” wares in a very unlikely corporate setting in downtown LA. Prior to this to this beautiful accident gone right, Nguyen also worked in the film business for 10 years selling, distributing and marketing independent films.

 

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HOST

The event will be hosted at the Ford & Ching showroom in the historic Kim Sing Theatre in Chinatown. Ford&Ching creates an impressive link between emerging design, end users, people who specify, and people who love design. Not familiar with their space? Get ready for a real treat! 

 

ABOUT CREATIVEMORNINGS

CreativeMornings is a monthly morning gathering of creative types. Each event includes a 20 minute lecture, followed by a 20 minute group discussion. The gathering begins at 8:30am with the topic presentation starting at 9:00am and everyone taking off for work at 10am. CreativeMornings are free of charge! LosAngeles is now the third chapter and joins Zurich + NewYork/CreativeMornings.

The LosAngeles/CreativeMornings chapter is run by Jon Setzen.

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Check out pictures of previous LosAngeles/CreativeMornings over at Flickr.
View all the taped LosAngeles/CreativeMorning talks we’ve put up on the web so far over at Vimeo.