Speaker Bio

Jet Tila

Executive Chef
Wazuzu at the Encore

Jet Tila is currently is Las Vegas developing a pan-Asian restaurant for Steve Wynn’s new Encore resort. A nationally renowned chef of Asian cuisine, Tila is known across the country for his skill, enthusiasm, expertise and knowledge of Asian regional food, with main emphasis on Thailand, China, Japan, Vietnam, Singapore, Korea and India. As a youngster, Tila spent time with his Chinese-Thai grandmother learning many of the ancient traditions of classical Asian cuisine from her. By his early teens he was cooking at his family’s Royal Thai restaurants and working at the family’s Bangkok Market, the nation’s first Thai grocery and import company. At 22, Tila caught the attention of the LOS ANGELES TIMES, spurring him on to formalize his culinary expertise at the California School of Culinary Art. He also completed an intensive study program at the California Sushi Academy. He then went to work at the LLOS ANGELES TIMES, regularly writing feature pieces for the paper’s food section. A regular on KCRW’s GOOD FOOD program with Evan Kleiman, he also hosts his own television show CHASING THE YUM on the Veria Network. More recently he was responsible for opening the Pacific Cafe at Google headquarters in Silicon Valley.

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