interview<\/a> with News4 earlier this year when she made it to the semifinals. <\/p>\n“It is such humbling and honorable moment for all of us here at the restaurant,\u201d Bae said. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPastry chef Susan Bae spoke with News4 about Moon Rabbit\u2019s selection as a semifinalist for the James Beard Award.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Moon Rabbit offers an innovative take on traditional Vietnamese cuisine. Bae serves up\u00a0mind-blowing pastries where she focuses on Vietnamese flavors\u00a0she loves, often incorporating savory elements as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n
News4’s Eun Yang profiled Bae back in 2024 as part of her Food Fare series where she showed the process behind creating her desserts. <\/p>\n
\u201cUsually, I pick out one flavor that I really love and then just think about what works with this, how do\u00a0I\u00a0play on this?\u201d said Bae.<\/p>\n
She says she hopes people feel open-minded and challenged after they try one of her savory desserts. <\/p>\n
“Once they try it, I think their open-mindedness is what I hope to achieve at the end of it,” Bae said. “That they’ll willing to go and try something that’s out of their box.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After three nominations,\u00a0a local D.C. spot can now say it has a James Beard award-winning chef.\u00a0\u00a0 Susan Bae,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21224],"tags":[21234,8160,4584,30776,10049],"class_list":["post-65126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bae","tag-bae","tag-bae-systems","tag-food-drink","tag-the-scene","tag-washington-dc"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116766765361417388","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}