Award-winning pastry chef Newton Shin is more than ready for the Friday grand opening of Basquia Bakery in the new Mega Mart on Pleasant Hill Road in Duluth.
“My body hurts,” said Shin. “This is so much work … I’m pretty sure my kitchen crew is exhausted, too.”
The native of Korea, who grew up in Hawaii, serves as the executive chef of Basquia Bakery, a brand of Mega Mart, which was founded in 1975 in South Korea (where 16 stores are located), employs 1,500 people and had sales of $630 million in 2021.
There are currently three Mega Mart locations in the United States; the first opened in Sunnyvale, California, in the spring of 2020 and the second opened in Fremont, Calif., in September.
Shin, who was named Southern California Restaurant Writers’ Pastry Chef of the Year for 2013 and 2014 (winning over more than 4,000 candidates), said…
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