Grace Allen:

Grace Allen is the founder and head instructor at PACC. Born and raised in Taiwan, she has extensive experience with traditional Chinese foods. Because of the earlier Japanese occupation,    Sashimi and Sushi are also very popular dishes there and formed part of her heritage. Grace has a BA degree in accounting and together with her husband had extensive business relationships in many places in the Far East, including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Korea and China. This gave her ample opportunity to study the genuine ethnic food and cooking of those countries.

In 1990, her family moved to England where she worked in a small antiques shop specializing in imported furniture from the Far East. In 1994, her family moved again and came to America. After several years in the wholesale restaurant supply business, Grace also owned a Chinese Restaurant, which she ran for the last 8 years and also became a partner of a Japanese Steak House in Kansas City.

Eric Wang:

Grace’s brother, Eric, came to USA in 1980 where he and his brother invested in a business growing bean sprouts and making tofu. Together they ran this business for 20 years, first in Dallas and later in Atlanta.

Eric then became a partner in the Japanese Natori restaurant for 2 years. Here he gained much experience in making well over 10,000 rolls and sushi!

Subsequently he, with his wife Karen, owned and operated the China Pearl Restaurant , on Mansell Road in Alpharetta for 4 years This has recently moved to 2500 Old Alabama Road in Roswell, where these first PACC classes are held.

Phil Lin:

Phil Lin, a real lover of Japanese cuisine, received his early training at the Academy of Maritime Sciences in Taiwan.  He specialized in food and nutrition available from the bounty of the ocean.  For almost 10 years he worked in Atlanta as a chef of Japanese cuisine. The for 20 years he has owned and operated Daruma, and Tokyo Steak Japanese Restaurant on Jimmy Cater Blvd and Tokyo Steak on Douglasville (The busiest and most popular Japanese Restaurant in town).  Chef Lin is a visiting Sushi instructor at the Pan Asia Cooking Classes.  On April 23, 2006 he will teach a 2 and half hour class on sushi making.