Azalina's Cooking Classes
Place Category: Asian, Catering, Cooking Schools, Gluten Free, Malaysian, and Private DiningPlace Tags: Chef Owned and Operated and Michelin Guide
Centrally situated in Southeast Asia, Malaysia represents a melding of three distinct cultural groups: Chinese, Indian, and Polynesian/Malay. Malaysian cuisine has adopted flavors and ingredients from all of these regions, while also sustaining European influences over the centuries. This culminates in a flavor profile and food culture that is distinctly different from its sum parts.
Chef of the Year, SF Eater 2023
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About Azalina’s
Chef Azalina Eusope puts her passion to work providing an great atmosphere and vibrant Malaysian flavors with seasonal producing a 4-course menu, two drinks included (one mocktail and one alcohol). — As is common in Malaysian street cuisine, you may be seated in a communal style with table for 4 seating 2 parties of 2 — It’s part of the street food lifestyle.
The menu will be published on the website and will change every few weeks so we hope you’ll stop by to experience our seasonal and vibrant flavors.
Our 4-course ($89) and 2-course ($46) Tasting Menu and Mocktails change every four weeks.
In order to offer a workplace that provides the team with wages that can sustain life in San Francisco, we will have a 20% gratuity split between all eligible dinner team members.
This will be a delicious evening with high quality Malaysian cuisine and we look forward to seeing soon!
ABOUT CHEF AND OWNER AZALINA EUSOPE
Azalina Eusope, a fifth-generation street food vendor, moved to San Francisco a decade ago. The only thing that could comfort her in the early days settling in and learning English was the food she grew up eating, so the pastry-trained chef cooked for herself, family and friends often. Over time, word got out about her home-cooked meals, and her hobby eventually turned into a business in 2010.
Eusope, whose grandmother sold coconut rice out of a basket she carried between villages, had always wanted to become a lawyer, but found herself in the family business after all. “This is the kind of food that reminds me of my culture, my family, my memories,” says Eusope. “You can’t turn it away. It’s in your family and in your soul. Somehow it’s going to come and find you.”
And it’s a good thing she got into the family business. In 2009, Bon Apetit magazine named Eusope one of “10 Top Upcoming Chefs” for 2010. She was also honored by Women’s Initiative for Self Improvement for being an “Enterprising Woman on the Rise” in 2012. She’s even catered food for President Obama!