Tracy Goh of Damansara
Sunday, December 8, 2024 | 2:00 - 3:00 PM
800 Grant Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94108
*this event is ticketed with limited capacity. Tickets will be available 30 days before the event date.
Tracy Goh was born and raised in Damansara Utama, near Malaysia’s capital city of Kuala Lumpur. Her culinary exploits reached a new level when an opportunity to live and work in San Francisco presented in 2012. In an attempt to meet like-minded food enthusiasts in a new country, Tracy posted photos of her traditional cooking on Instagram under the @eatwithtracy handle and invited curious yet eager strangers to experience Malaysian flavors in her former one-bedroom apartment. The small dinner parties quickly turned into frequent pop-ups with 20 to 60 guests at rented venues. Tracy realized that she could be filling a gap in the market for Southeast Asian cuisines. She began to focus full-time on promoting Malaysian cuisine in the Bay Area. Support from the local community became the impetus for opening Damansara in October 2022, her first brick and mortar Malaysian restaurant in San Francisco.
Damansara is a community-powered project funded by donations, crowdfunding, loans, and small business grants. They are a proud graduate business of La Cocina, a non-profit organization that cultivates low-income food entrepreneurs, with a primary focus on women of color and immigrants.
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Tracy Goh 於鄰近馬來西亞首府吉隆坡的百樂鎮（Damansara Utama）出生和成長。2012 年，當一個在三藩市生活和工作的機會在她眼前出現，她的烹飪之路更隨即更上一層樓。為了在新國家結識志同道合的飲食愛好者，Tracy 將她烹調傳統菜色的照片張貼於 Instagram 名為 @eatwithtracy 的戶口，並邀請好奇而又想一探究竟的陌生人，到訪她當時居住的一房寓所，體驗馬來西亞的味道。這些小型晚餐派對旋即變成頻繁在租用場地舉行的 20 – 60 人快閃餐會。Tracy 意識到她可能正補上市場上東南亞飲食缺了那一塊，於是開始全職於三藩市灣區推廣馬來西亞菜。本地社群的支持，成為她在2022 年 10 月開設三藩市首間實體馬來西亞餐廳 Damansara的原動力。
Damansara 是個社區推動的項目，以捐款、眾籌所得、貸款和小企業補助金營運。我們以曾接受非牟利機構 La Cocina指導感到自豪。該組織致力培訓低收入的餐飲實業家，尤以有色人種女性和新移民為主要服務對象。
