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About the Author

Hailing from a mixed Chinese and Russian background, Dina Yuen spent her
childhood years between Indonesia, Singapore, and the United States. She was
blessed with a family who possessed a strong sense of tradition and love for food.
From the early age of 5, she already found a profound passion for cooking, lavishing
her family with new creations constantly. To her parents’ great shock, Dina demanded
to go to cooking school while in Indonesia.

After receiving her parents’ approval, she still had to convince the founder of the
culinary school that a 12-year-old child was capable of keeping up with her adult
peers. Persistence and dedication paid off as Dina became the youngest student to ever
graduate from the Nila Chandra Culinary Academy. After studying the intricacies of
Asian and European techniques and flavors, she went on to travel the world with her
family. For the next ten years, she studied with numerous chefs of both top hotels and
local hole-in-the-wall restaurants. In Indonesia specifically, Dina’s knowledge of the

local cuisine deepened through further studies with chefs at the Dharmawangsa Hotel,
Sheraton Bali, Amandari Bali, Nyonya Tanzil, and Sultan Hotel (formerly the Hilton
Jakarta).

Though she fulfilled her parents’ wishes of graduating in Industrial Engineering and
Business Management, Dina decided to forge a different path in the past several years.
After catering numerous friends’ parties and hosting many of her own, she founded
Asian-Fusion.com, an all in one portal that showcases the best of Asia through cuisine,

travel, art, music, and much more. Through Asian Fusion, she has also become a well
connected and respected food and travel critic, forming close relationships with many
notable chefs, corporations and hotels including Lee Kum Kee, Chef Glenn Chu of
Indigo, Chef Jay Mariadoss formerly of Taj Hotels, the Ritz Carlton, and Aman