In a 2022 interview with No Kid Hungry, Mei (who currently owns Daybird, a fast-casual Szechuan hot chicken restaurant in Los Angles) explained, “It wasn’t until after I finished filming Top Chef that ...

Anyone who follows Mei Lin on Instagram (If you don’t, go here and start), knows that she is cooking some amazing comfort food right now, like cheddar-scallion biscuits, mapo tofu and scallion ...

One of Los Angeles’s most talented chefs, Mei Lin, will open her third restaurant, called 88 Club, in the heart of Beverly Hills on April 4. The restaurant will feature a polished menu of Chinese ...

At 88 Club, planks of artful shrimp toast, piles of chewy mung bean jelly noodles and clay pots of mapo tofu spin on well-lighted marble lazy Susans. This is Mei Lin’s take on Chinese banquet dining, ...

Lin will stuff Rafidi’s wood-fired pitas with Sichuan hot fried chicken similar to what customers can find at her new sandwich shop, Daybird. Dinner ($150 per person) includes Asian snacks, small ...

Asian-American representation comes in many forms, but Chef Mei Lin’s Szechuan hot chicken is unequivocally the tastiest. At Daybird, her fast-casual spot in Silver Lake, she pays homage to her ...

Over on Los Angeles’ east side, Top Chef winner Mei Lin is frying up one of the best hot chicken sandwiches in the city at her fast-casual spot Daybird. She’s taken her travels to Nashville and her ...

In early January, Mei Lin, the chef and owner of Nightshade, a modern American restaurant in Los Angeles’s fashionable Arts District, read about a new virus spreading rapidly through China. “This is ...

Asian-American representation comes in many forms, but Chef Mei Lin’s Szechuan hot chicken is unequivocally the tastiest. At Daybird, her fast-casual spot in Silver Lake, she pays homage to her ...