260 Food Industry Professionals Meet at the Jack & King’s Ready Meals Tasting 2022 in Los Angeles

by admin · Published February 11, 2022 · Updated February 12, 2022

Los Angeles, CA, February 10, 2022 -The second stop of Jack & King’s Ready Meals Tasting North America 2022 tour was held February 9th in San Gabriel, California. The event brought together 260 representatives of government, food industry associations, restaurants, supermarkets, e-commerce and take-out, as well as distribution and wholesale channels, from all walks of life.

Group photo of the guests

The event was co-hosted by Jack & King’s and the U.S.-China Restaurant Alliance. Invited guests enjoyed a delicious feast of ready meal tastings combined with cultural performances, prize drawings and free giveaways of the amazing food on display.

Ready food demonstration

This event was one of the highest profile events in the North American food industry since the start of Covid-19, enhancing communication between food industry professionals, while highlighting the increasingly important trend of ready-made meals for every type of food business. Political representatives Allen Wu, vice Mayor of Walnut, Stephen Sham, former Mayor of Alhambra, former Mayor of Monterey Park Stephen Lam attended the event to discuss the development of ready meals. Judy Chu, the congresswoman and Eric Ching who couldn’t come to the event also express their congratulations for the event via video and representatives.

Squirrel Fish

Jack Hwang, CEO of Galaxy International Group and founder of Jack & King’s, pointed out in his opening speech that the standardized ready meals, which are “convenient and free, healthy and affordable” have a huge and growing place in restaurants, supermarkets, e-commerce, take-out, and wholesale distribution channels.

According to Jack, ready meals are an increasingly important key to food industry growth and improvement. In the coming years, ready meals will increasingly serve to increase the efficiency of product iteration, reduce labor and venue costs, and expand a broader consumption environment.

Jack & King’s is leading the charge across the United States, bringing the best of ready meals and complementing the advantages of various types of food businesses to achieve win-win relationships.

Jack Hwang CEO of Galaxy International Group and founder of Jack & King’s

Regarding the definition of ready meal, Jack Hwang, the founder of Jack & King’s, clearly pointed out in his speech that ready meals can be divided into four categories: 1. Ready-to-eat food, which can be consumed directly, such as spicy squid. 2. Ready-to-heat food, which only needs heating, such as dumplings, fried rice, etc. 3. Ready-to-cook food, which are portions of preserved ingredients and seasoning packages of semi-finished dishes, such as chopped fish head, spicy bullfrog, etc. 4. Prepared food, which is mainly frozen fish and vegetables with semi-finished ingredients such as fish filets or bamboo shoots which have had the initial processing such as cleaning and slitting.

Ready meals have four major advantages. They are more convenient, flexible, more affordable, and healthier. And they provide very important economic benefits for restaurants, supermarkets, e-commerce, take-out, distributors and wholesale channels, as well as many benefits for consumers.

In recent years, because of the pandemic and inflation, as well as the rising costs of raw materials and labor, low cost with high efficiency has become an increasingly important need in the restaurant industry, and ready meals are leading the way. Already, ready meals have become an increasingly important part of the restaurant and catering industries.

Based on the huge business prospects for ready meals, Jack Hwang hosted Jack & King’s 108 Ready Meals Tasting Event, in order to encourage restaurants, supermarkets, e-commerce, take-out, and wholesale distribution channels to actively embrace the trend of ready meals and empower their own enterprises or platforms to achieve greater business expansion and revenue growth.

Tony Hu, President of the U.S.-China Restaurant Alliance, Founder of Lao Szechuan Restaurant Group

Judy Chu, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives specially sent a video congratulated and spoke highly of the Jack & King’s 108 Ready Meals Tasting Event, believing that it has extremely important value and significance for the development and revitalization of the North American restaurant community after the epidemic.

Left: Rachel Bai, Director of Decentralized Learning and Development at Panda Express Group; Jack Hwang, Founder of Jack & King’s

Rachel Bai, director of training and development of Panda Express Restaurant Group, was invited to the event and expressed her great appreciation for Jack& King’s ready meals. She believed that ready meals of Jack& King’s reflect the value of convenience, delicacy, healthy and affordability, which coincides with the business philosophy of Panda Express. She expected more peers to promote ready meals together, strengthen and expand Chinese food categories.

Peter Zhang, CEO of HF Foods

Peter Zhang, CEO of HF Group, was invited to speak at the meeting. He was deeply impressed by Kung Fu Sea Bass and Squirrel Fish products. These convenient, affordable and standardized food will provide higher efficiency and greater benefits for catering industry, Peter said. As a large food supplier and service provider in North America, HF Foods Group will certainly catch such business opportunities and is willing to join hands with Jack& King’s to strengthen and promote the ready meals in North America.

As the main part of the event, the delicious ready meal tasting brought guests a delight of eye-pleasing visual displays and flavorful tastes. The delicious items sampled included chili silver carp fish head, “squirrel fish,” spicy frog legs, tomato fish curd, handmade glutinous rice cake, iced waxberry juice, shrimp cakes, ribbon fish rolls and other dishes with tantalizing colors and flavors, comparable to traditional hand-made dishes of excellent chefs. Yet these dishes were cooked in just 5-10 minutes, showing just how convenient, delicious and authentic that ready meals can be.

In addition, the guests were all given a beautiful gift set provided by Luzhou Laojiao Group and enjoyed a wonderful carving performance by Chef Zhou Qingzhong, master of Huaiyang cuisine at Fiery Bowl. They also saw a demonstration of squirrel fish cooking by the Ray Shao, the Imperial Garden Executive Chef, opera performances of Inviting the God of Fortune and Chinese Zither Si Duan Jin. To show support for this event, Jack & King’s provided on-site discounted offers for the entire product line as well as handsome gift packages for all the guests to take home.Allen Wu, the vice mayor of Walnut said this industry is promising and ready meals solved the issues of labor shortage. So there’re lots of opportunities during and after the pandemic.

From Left: Ray Shao, Imperial Garden Executive Chef, 5 Star Diamond Brand Chef; Yong Tian, Executive Chef of Bistro Na’s

Live Cooking Performance: Dragon Beard Lamian Noodles by Ella Hu, Shanghai Pastry Master

At the same time, other suppliers of Jack & King’s also sent congratulation videos and were honored to provide delicious ready meals for their compatriots. The suppliers include the leading company for shrimp product–Guolian Aquatic Products Group, China’s large aquatic processing enterprises– Hengxing Food, Sichuan speciality food brand — Tang Jiu Long Food, the pioneering of waxberry juice- Chengyouwangji, and China’s leading brand of alpine fresh bamboo shoots- Zhuxin. Their support for this event was greatly appreciated and we can expect more excellent products to be entering North America so that Chinese food can go global in a more convenient, affordable and healthy way.

With the success of the first Jack & King’s 108 Ready Meals Tasting Event in Atlanta, and the second event in Los Angeles, New York on February 15 will be held, and it is expected that even more restaurants, supermarkets, e-commerce and take-out platforms, as well as representatives of the wholesale food distribution industry will actively participate when the Jack & King’s Ready Meals Tasting 2022 comes to town!

John Xu, President of HK Good Fortune Supermarket

From left to right: Chris Fu, Reginal Director of American of Meizho Dongpo; Gordon Lu,General Manager of JD Worldwide (North America)

From left to right: Han Tao, General Manager of HK Goodfortune Supermarket; Stephen Lam, Former Mayor of Monterey Park City

From left to right: Simon Hu, Senior Director of Restaurant Operations at Weee!; Cosmo Hu, Co-founder of Chihuo Inc

Tony Hu, President of the U.S.-China Restaurant Alliance, Founder of Lao Szechuan Restaurant Group; Theresa Lin, Chairman of Chinese Restaurant Foundation