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Who are we?
SavourAsia is the creation of Sandra Huang and Stanford Smith, both long term residents of Asia who share a passion for food, travel and education. This project grew out of our desire to share the fun, pleasure, and amazing diversity of eating in Asia.
Sandra Huang
 An accomplished amateur chef, Sandra has studied cooking in Thailand, China and Vietnam in addition to working in well-known kitchens in the United States. Currently a food writer and cooking teacher in Beijing, Sandra has spent most of the last 13 years living, working, writing, traveling and eating in Asia. As a high school teacher and development consultant she has worked in dusty schoolhouses in western Mongolia and mountain villages in northern Vietnam. Sandra has lived in San Francisco; Washington, DC; Boston; Taipei; Hanoi; Beijing; and Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She speaks English, Mandarin Chinese and Vietnamese. Her husband, a U.S. diplomat, is perpetually in awe of her.
Stanford Smith
 As the first of eight children growing up in Virginia and then Utah, Stanford came to see food as sustenance above all else. Although his mother was a resourceful farmer’s daughter and there was always enough food, early memories include powdered milk, cracked wheat porridge and lining up to get the next pancake hot out of the pan. It was not until Stanford first visited Asia in 1988 that he discovered vegetables could be enjoyed rather than endured. After completing a masters degree in International Development, he worked on various education and economic development projects focusing on South and Southeast Asia, and in 1996 met Nga Nguyen (a Vietnamese American from Ohio with a serious passion for fine food) in Washington DC where they were both working. In 2001 they moved to Hanoi to pursue their desire to live in Asia, and it's been food heaven ever since, including a year and a half living in Bangkok. Currently working for the United Nations in Hanoi, he also founded with his brother Adam the design and communications firm Linea Studios, which has now joined with a video firm to become Advent Creative based in the U.S.
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