Celebrate the Year of the Snake
and Create Lasting Healthcare Innovation for Future Generations:
Exclusive Chef Lineup Revealed for the 2025 Scotiabank Feast of Fortune Charity Gala
The Chinese Restaurant Awards is proud to once again partner with St. Paul’s Foundation for the Scotiabank Feast of Fortune Charity Gala, taking place on February 22, 2025, at JW Marriott Parq Vancouver. A star-studded lineup of five award-winning and emerging chefs will headline the gala, offering a memorable culinary experience to inspire philanthropy. Proceeds will support St. Paul’s Foundation’s work to drive medical innovation, improve the quality of care for patients and residents, and cultivate research breakthroughs with a global impact.
Since its inception in 2008, donors to Scotiabank Feast of Fortune have contributed more than $23.2 million, helping to fund life-saving diagnostic tools, state-of-the-art surgical equipment, and groundbreaking research across Providence Health Care’s hospitals and care sites. As a long-time partner, the Chinese Restaurant Awards is honoured to mark its 11th year of collaboration with the gala. This partnership underscores a shared commitment to shifting health care from the ordinary to extraordinary through a unified effort between the restaurant industry and St. Paul’s Foundation.
“We’re excited to partner with the Chinese Restaurant Awards for the 18th annual Scotiabank Feast of Fortune Charity Gala. This year, we are proud to raise funds that will help bring compassionate care to patients and families, support life-changing research, and underpin the future of health care at the new Jim Pattison Medical Campus,” says Sheila Biggers, President and CEO, St. Paul’s Foundation. “Donations to St. Paul’s Foundation will enable us to realize the vision of the medical campus, making possible a health ecosystem that will change lives for generations.”
Guests at the gala can expect an extraordinary culinary experience, with a menu crafted by five award winning and new wave chefs, including the Chinese Restaurant Awards’ Dim Sum Chef of the Year 2024 Lai Wei of Lanxuan Restaurant and Michelin Young Chef Award 2023 recipient Chef Warren Chow of Wildlight Kitchen + Bar. The chefs will unite to create a Chinese-inspired feast, blending traditional and contemporary flavours to celebrate the Lunar New Year and the theme of the Year of the Snake. This evening of creativity, culture, and culinary excellence will support St. Paul’s Foundation’s work to accelerate the transformation of health care across Providence and throughout BC.
Featured Chefs:
Dim Sum Head Chef Wei Lai, Lanxuan Restaurant (Chinese Restaurant Awards Dim Sum Chef of the Year 2024)
Executive Chef Warren Chow, Wildlight Kitchen and Bar (Michelin Young Chef Award 2023 recipient)
Chef de Cuisine Toby Chen, Missing Chopsticks
Culinary Director Danny Deng, Neue Catering
Chef owner Jay Yip, Petite Bao
Transform lives and create a lasting impact for generations to come. Join St. Paul’s Foundation and the award-winning and new wave chefs in supporting the Scotiabank Feast of Fortune Charity Gala on February 22, 2025.
To join the gala in person or to make a donation, please visit: https://helpstpauls.com/feast-of-fortune/
More about the participating chefs – www.chineserestaurantawards.com/Feast-of-Fortune-2025.
Supporting partners of the tasting presentation: The Dalmore, Hamadaya, Olympic Distributors, Geoduck Canada, Fresh Ideas Start Here, Hook and Herd, 、Two Rivers Meats、Wingtat Game Bird Packers, and Vancouver Community College
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About Chinese Restaurant Awards
Founded in 2008, Chinese Restaurant Awards is the longest running Chinese culinary restaurant awards event in the world. The Awards are rooted in two challenging yet humble goals; raise public awareness for quality Chinese cuisine throughout Metro Vancouver and create a platform for cross-cultural culinary exchange. The team behind the Chinese Restaurant Awards consist of food, media and marketing professionals who are Chinese food enthusiasts, with a passion for promoting regional Chinese cuisine in North America. Over the years, the team has achieved many milestones through several culinary events and campaigns such as the Chinese Master Chefs Gold Medal Dinner in 2014, East Meets West: Paris x Vancouver 2016, DINING by the Awards 2019, Chinese Restaurant Awards Scholarship and the highly popular social influential culinary tourism campaign #Taste city series in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Suzhou and Taipei from 2017 to 2019.
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About St. Paul’s Foundation
St. Paul’s Foundation raises funds to support compassionate, inspired care across BC at Providence Health Care and Providence Living. The funds we raise help put patients and residents first, through a collaborative, integrated approach that includes the best in clinical care, world-class research, and education. Every year our donors make it possible to provide innovative care to tens of thousands of people—from newborn babies and their moms to seniors living in long-term care—at 18 sites across BC, including St. Paul’s Hospital.
Through fundraising and strategic partnerships, the Foundation supports Providence in building on its long history of innovation, leading research, and advancements in care for the people of British Columbia and beyond.
To learn more and to donate, visit: www.helpstpauls.com | Facebook @helpstpauls | Instagram @helpstpauls | X @helpstpauls | #FOF2025 #FeastofFortune
Media contact:
Rae Kung
