Hi friends,

May

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May 〰️

This month I am SUPER pleased to share my shoot with LA florist Studio Chung. It’s not often I really get the opportunity to creative direct the whole project from the ground up and cultivate a little world so we wanted to take advantage of that, make it super special and bring some snack friends along for the ride. For my part I shot and prop styled the sets, using the opportunity to show off some of my favorite foods, while Sarah brought in the absolutely perfect floral accompaniments. Los Angeles’ food scene is wide and wonderful so this is our love letter to a slice of it’s diversity and color.

Here are some of the finer details of each set:

The red set showcases the snacks of San Gabriel restaurant Hui Tou Xiang whose tomato and egg noodles and dumplings are the stuff of dreams (don’t snooze on their chili oil either!) please go get an order, as well as everyone’s favorite white rabbit candy, chrysanthemum tea “juice” boxes and of course the OG Lao Gan Ma which I can’t live without.

The green set features a newish to me, favorite sweet, Kueh Lapis- made by the unstoppable sisters of Bungkus Bagus who have been bringing their Balinese flavors to LA through special pop ups, and Smorgadsborg LA (which also everyone should know about too), please go try everything they make, I’ll accept a thank you card later. I got their food during a pandemic pop up and never stopped thinking about it! The rest of the snacky bits hail from Tip Top mart in San Gabriel in case you need to stock up on some shrimp chips too.

The cream set used local beautiful eggs from a backyard bird, the durian stank up the studio a bit afterwards but no regrets and all Kumquats were voraciously eaten by me mostly while watching old episodes of Criminal Minds.

I’m hoping to continue this series with some more must try LA snacks- what are your favorites? I’d love to hear all about it!

As always if I can help with anything, shoot me a message!