Nite Yun, My Cambodia
Saturday, October 4, 2025, 11:00 am - 11:34 am
Stop by the Foodwise Classroom for a cooking demo featuring the seasonal bounty of the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market.
Nite Yun was born in a refugee camp after her parents escaped war-torn Cambodia. Her family eventually moved to California, where she grew up listening to her father’s Khmer rock n’ roll music and learned to cook traditional Cambodian dishes from her mother. Inspired by trips to Cambodia to learn about her heritage, Nite dedicated herself to bringing the flavors of Cambodian food back to the Bay Area. She opened her first restaurant, Nyum Bai, in Oakland in 2018 and now runs Lunette, in San Francisco’s Ferry Building. Nite has been recognized as one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People, named a Food and Wine Best New Chef 2019, was a recipient of the Vilcek Foundation Prize for Creative Promise in Culinary Arts, 2019 and was featured on Netflix’s Chef’s Table in 2024. She is the the author of My Cambodia: A Khmer Cookbook with Tien Nguyen (4 Color Books, September 2025). She lives in San Francisco with her French bulldog, queen Nola.
All demos take place in the Foodwise Classroom (under the tents in front of the Ferry Building) and are free to the public, with recipes and samples for all.
The demo will be followed by a book signing with book sales courtesy of Book Passage.