Helina Tesega is a Hong Kong-based Ethiopian chef and founding father of Eat Ethio – a non-public kitchen and pop-up idea that gives perception into Ethiopian tradition by means of meals, espresso, music and extra.
Eat Ethio is a mission Helina began in Shanghai round 2012 to advertise a contemporary understanding of the meals and tradition of Ethiopia. Helina moved to Hong Kong in mid 2014 and has since masterminded a number of of town’s most fun culinary happenings, collaborating with like minded entrepreneurs to host pop-ups at locations reminiscent of Stack, Ping Pong, La Paloma, and The Woods. Eat Ethio developed into a non-public eating and pop-up idea, combining her mother’s Ethiopian recipes with fashionable cooking strategies. She moved to London in 2017 and has since collaborated on a collection of occasions.
“My cooking type is contemporary, nutritious, and sluggish cooked. My mission is to painting the wealthy, vibrant meals and tradition of Ethiopia”, Helina says. The muse of her cooking comes from her mother, who is an effective prepare dinner, and so open-minded. Her mother may be very aware of the therapeutic powers of meals and infrequently makes pure treatments, and that is one thing central to Helina’s cooking apply. At her supper golf equipment, the whole lot from the meals to the visuals, music, espresso, and even the scent is there for a motive. “The way in which I set my supper golf equipment up meant that I might at all times have completely different individuals who have been usually strangers coming collectively, to not solely share an Ethiopian meal, however to have an area to share completely different points of their cultures as nicely. Ethiopian delicacies may be very delicate and calls for a variety of consideration and I might by no means compromise the flavour of the dish”, she added. That is Helina’s fashionable tackle a conventional dish and her fetishisation of overseas meals.
With nary an genuine Ethiopian restaurant in Hong Kong, Helina’s artistic method to educating and stunning native diners along with her initiatives has been a beneficial asset to the culinary panorama, and her participation within the inaugural #TatlerTable was wealthy with contemporary views.
Greater than a motion about meals, Eat Ethio is a motion for Ethiopian tradition.
