Susur Lee Biography
Susur Lee is a celebrity chef from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His first restaurant, Lotus, opened in Toronto in 1987. Susur Lee Restaurant Group is owned and managed by him.
How old is Susur Lee? – Age
He is 64 years years old as of 27 December 2022. He was born in 1958 in British Hong Kong.
Susur Lee Family
Susur was the youngest of six children born in Hong Kong. He completed his culinary training in Hong Kong’s Peninsula Hotel.
Susur Lee Wife
He moved to Canada in 1978, when he met and married his first wife, Marilou Covey. Susur and Marilou chose to go to Hong Kong in 1983, but Marilou died as a passenger on Korean Air Lines Flight 007, which was shot down by a Soviet jet fighter.Susur married Brenda Bent in 1991 and has three children with her: Kai, Levi, and Jet.
Susur Lee Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $10 million.
Susur Lee Accusation
The Ontario Ministry of Labour investigated six claims of unpaid pay filed by former employees of Toronto’s Lee’s Susur restaurant on King Street West in 2007. Other concerns included working too long hours, not providing appropriate time off, and other violations of employment rules and human rights.
Fring’s Restaurant’s liquor license was temporarily withdrawn by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario in April 2017. The Toronto restaurant is co-owned by Lee and musician Drake. Among the various infractions of Liquor Control and Fire Protection and Prevention were overcrowding, inciting “immoderate consumption,” and failing to display its license.
Prior instances of employees at Lee’s Toronto restaurants — Lee, Fring’s, and Bent — having their tips docked to cover spilled drinks, errors, and unpaid guest checks, an illegal business practice in Ontario, were revealed in August 2017 via screenshots on a pseudonymous Twitter account known for calling out personalities in the Toronto food scene. As a result, the chef’s representatives announced that the policy is no longer in effect.
Nonetheless, a petition was established requesting that the chef and his restaurants return the money that had been withheld. After over 7,000 customers signed a petition, Lee and his sons, Kai Bent-Lee and Levi Bent-Lee, who assist run the family business, declared that they will reimburse all kept gratuities to current and former employees.
Susur Lee Restaurants
Susur worked his direction to leader gourmet expert status at various eateries and in the long run turned into a business visionary. Fusion cuisine is how he describes his diverse culinary approach. His rendition of the Lo Hei salad, known as “Singapore Slaw,” which is typically consumed during the Lunar New Year, has earned him particular notoriety.
In the second season of the Bravo television show Top Chef, Susur was a finalist: Aces, completing in a tie for second behind champ Marcus Samuelsson. He has appeared as a guest chef on numerous cooking shows on television, and he was the second Canadian chef to appear on Iron Chef America on the Food Network, following Rob Feenie.
Susur has worked as a chef at a number of restaurants in Toronto, judged culinary competitions, appeared on numerous food and wine shows, and owned and operated well-known restaurants in Singapore, the United States, and Canada. In 1987, he opened Lotus, his first restaurant, in Toronto. The Susur Lee Restaurant Group is his to own and run.
Susur’s honors incorporate the CAA Five Precious stone Honor, Cannes, France; being named one of the “Ten Chefs of the Millennium” by Food & Wine and receiving the 5 Diamond Award from the American Academy of Hospitality Services, which recognized him as one of the “World’s Best Chefs.” “Canada’s Best 100 Lifetime Achievement Award” was presented to him in 2017. Susur was one of the 2015 recipients of the Canadian Immigrant Magazine’s Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards.