01The American table

It started as bringing something very good to an American table.

It quickly became the place we keep everything we care about: the food, the water, and how much better things are where worlds overlap.

02California ↔ Sichuan

We grew up half here, half there — California and Sichuan.

As first-generation immigrants, the arithmetic of belonging is familiar. Neither of our homes is one thing, and neither pretends to be.

03Western Sichuan

The place came first.

Western Sichuan is one of the world's greatest biodiversity hotspots — a crossing where plateau meets basin, and where cultures have connected for as long as there have been people to cross it.

Like us, the fish came from elsewhere, the water gave them a home.

04Cold water and craft

At least ten years of cold water and decades of artisanal craftsmanship

Some of the best caviar in the world is farmed in China, but people always keep it lowkey. We think a place worth sourcing from is a place worth naming.