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.

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.

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.

At least ten years of
cold water and decades
of 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.