School of Travel Industry Management of University of Hawaii at Manoa under the leadership of Dean Emeritus Chuck Gee was the 1st University invited by China Government in 1978 to help with the development of China's tourism. Dean Gee was selected at UH Board of Regent in 2009 continue to play an important role as advisors to China Government on the City, Provincial and National level - watch video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5zCQpw5ieE

Taipei Taiwan Republic of China - August 17 - 26 2009: Dean Emeritus Chuck Gee of UH School of Travel Industry Management and Board of Regent of the University of Hawaii Chaired the Judge Panel at the Taiwan International Chinese Culinary Competition (The lady who is at center stage in two of the photos (speaking and hitting gong), Ms. Seh-jen Lai (Janice), Director-General of the Taiwan Tourism Bureau under the Ministry of Communications and Transportation of the Republic of China.)

TV Coverage and Interviews: Dean Emeritus Chuck Gee of UH School of Travel Industry Management and Board of Regent of the University of Hawaii Chaired the Judge Panel at the Taiwan International Chinese Culinary Competition. A team of Taiwanese chefs has captured the gold in this years World Culinary Contest, after beating the mainland Chinese team in the final round of the competition, Bay Area chefs take bronze http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l7ixeABT4Y

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The World Culinary Contest (Taiwan Culinary Exhibition)

2009 Taiwan Culinary Exhibition will be held from August 20 to 23 at Hall 1, Taipei World Trade Centre. The biggest annual event in Taiwan food industry, 2009 Taiwan Culinary Exhibition, has entered its 20th years. This year, there will be eight teams from Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Fuzhou, USA and Taiwan to compete during this four-day long event. As the competition is getting more intense, the crowds will be more exciting about the result. Moreover, the result of preliminaries will be announced at noon on August 21. Welcome everyone come to visit 2009 Taiwan Culinary Exhibition and cheer for your favorite team!

08/24/2009 China Times

Local chefs win World Culinary Contest

A team of Taiwanese chefs has captured the gold in this year’s World Culinary Contest, after beating the mainland Chinese team in the final round of the competition.

It is the first time since group-performance competitions began in 2004 that Taiwan has won the first prize. In commenting on the team’s performance, Judge Liu Guan-lin said that the team not only won an impressive victory, it did so with flashes of brilliance.

The Northern Taiwan team, as this year's winning team is called, scored a total of 3,443.8 points in the competition, 400 points more than the mainland Chinese team.

Luo Jin-han, the leader of the Northern Taiwan team, said that in order to ensure it would win the culinary competition, the team of chefs began preparing more than a year ago. Three months ago, the preparation work entered a more intense phase, as the chefs practiced with 60 different dishes and 50 different sauces.

Chief judge Chuck Yim Gee gave high marks to the Northern Taiwan team. He noted how every time the dishes were brought out, the team would tell a brief story on the origins of the dish and its ingredients, something which made a deep impression on the judges.

When it brought out “King Grouper Dish,” for instance, the team told the panel of judges that the number of groupers raised in Taiwan’s aqua farms has dropped sharply recently, because so many fish were lost in Typhoon Morakot. This made the judges understand what a special treat it was to be able to savor the grouper dish.

But a good story not backed up by good food would not have been sufficient to sway the judges. Gee emphasized that the flavor of the Taiwan dishes was outstanding; the arrangement of the dishes and the cutting skills also had a very high quality.

“The Northern Taiwan team had home-field advantage, since it knows the local ingredients well. And all the members were very competitive—we could tell this by looking at how dedicated they were during the competition,” said Gee.

Craig Au-Yeung, another judge, said that the first and main dishes are extremely important. From the beginning to the end the Taiwan team maintained a high level of consistency, he said.

At the same time Au-Yeung expressed some regret for the performance of the mainland Chinese team. “From the first round until the semi-finals they surprised us again and again. It was too bad their performance flagged a little in the final round. Maybe they were not so familiar with the local ingredients.”

Yang Qi-dong, a judge for three years in a row, said that the mainland Chinese team has become weaker, whereas the Taiwan team has become stronger. Even when it came to deserts, which the mainland Chinese team has usually excelled in, Taiwan outperformed its cross-strait rivals.

But even though Taiwan has won the contest, it still needs work in arranging its dishes, said Yang. Otherwise it won’t be truly world class, he said.

The Taiwan team donated NT$150,000 (US$4,550) in prize money to the victims of Typhoon Morakot. The mainland Chinese team followed suit and also donated NT$150,000. A King Grouper dish was sold in a charity auction for NT$560,000. Altogether the four-day contest brought in NT$24 million in donation money. (HZW)

September 4, 2009

Bay Area chefs take bronze in Taiwan By: Patricia Unterman - Special to The Examiner

A respectable finish: Damon Barham, above, and five other Bay Area chefs placed third in the 2009 World Culinary Exhibition in Taiwan. The event draws industry professionals from all over the world. (Tracy Johnston/Special to The Examiner)

SAN FRANCISCO — Five Bay Area Asian-American chefs supported by six hard-working interns from the California Culinary Academy cooked their way into third place at the 2009 World Culinary Contest at the Taiwan Culinary Exhibition in Taipei.

Philippe Striffeler of Hotel Nikko; Scott Whitman of Sushi Ran in Sausalito; Ty Mahler of Roy’s Restaurant; Damon Barham, an instructor at the CCA; and Arturo Moscoso of Pebble Beach Resorts prepared a seven-course meal under television lights in a roaring exhibition hall for an international panel of judges. They outscored teams from Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, southern Taiwan and Hong Kong. The two finalists, from Fuzhou province on the mainland and from Northern Taiwan, competed in an iron chef cook-off, using surprise ingredients from a market basket. The Northern Taiwan team won.

This was the third time that the Bay Area’s Asian Chef’s Association, a professional and philanthropic organization dedicated to Asian-inspired cooking, fielded a team since the competition began in 2004, and it was their best outcome. This year all proceeds from the Culinary Exhibition, a major trade show, were donated to victims of Typhoon Morakot.The event draws industry professionals and tourists from all over the world to explore Taipei’s vibrant food scene, from immaculate street stalls to elegant dining rooms.

A rewarding day of eating in Taipei centers on typical Taiwanese xiao chi, or “small eats,” starting with a breakfast of flaky, clay-oven-baked turnip buns and a bowl of savory hot soy milk at Fu-Hang Dou Jiang (second floor of Hua San Market). Or breakfast at Jia Shin Fish Ball, (Yin-Ping N. Road, Lane 210, No. 21 by the Dihua market) where big, white, puffy Fuzhou fishballs — filled with ground pork — bob in a lovely clear broth scented with Chinese celery.

No day in Taiwan is complete without dumplings, specifically, juicy, pork-filled xiao long bao. Though the hordes head to the famous Din Tai Fung, whose dumplings have the thinnest wrappers, I am equally fond of the dumplings at Hanzhou Xiao Long Tan Bao (Hanzhou S. Rd sec. 2, No. 53-55) whose wrappers are a little thicker but tender. They fulfill my eternal longing for savory pork and rich broth, which magically gushes out with the first nibble.

Time for lunch? Even an intrepid street-food eater like myself was willing to head indoors to Hsiang Tien Lo, the exquisite Art Deco dining room in the Landis Hotel (41, Min Chuan E. Rd.) that serves subtle southeastern Chinese dishes, such as tiny, fresh shrimp momentarily steamed with fresh Dragonwell tea leaves, dressed with dark, rice-wine vinegar. A full meal at this refined restaurant is inexpensive at $30 per person.

Hundreds of street stalls make beef noodle soup, a Taiwan obsession, but Yang Kong Beef Noodle next to Yank Kong Park sloshes the most resonant star anise-scented beef broth over thick, al dente noodles and miraculously soft but flavorful hunks of boiled brisket — especially wonderful slurped outdoors on card tables.

Afterwards, walk to Ice Monster (No. 15 Yong Kang Street), a phenom in Taipei where cubed, silky summer mangoes tumble down a mountain of shaved ice drizzled with condensed milk and mango purée, crowned with a scoop of fresh mango sorbet. On hot Taipei nights, nothing could be better.

Since street bites costs $1 to $3, everyone in Taipei eats from morning till late at night. Guide Ivy Chen (inform.ivy@msa.hinet.net) can take you to the best spots.

Patricia Unterman is author of the second edition of the “San Francisco Food Lovers’ Pocket Guide.” Contact her at pattiu@concentric.net.

Honolulu Hawaii USA - Friday August 14 2009 - Celebration UH Board of Regent, Dean Emeritus Chuck Gee 76th Birthday with UH TIM Alumni and Friends before leaving for Taipei Taiwan to judge the Taipei International Chinese Cuisine Competition between Aug 17 - 26 2009 in Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

View UH Board of Regent, Dean Emeritus Chuck Gee's Speech in Hong Kong on April 22 2009 (no signed up required - just click on the link -> Video 1/2 2/2

Dinner in Honor of UH Board of Regent - Dean Emeritus Chuck Gee - UH School of Travel Industry Management in Hong Kong Tuesday April 22, 2009 6:30pm

Special Guest: Robert Burns, Founder and Past Chair, Regent International Hotels

Special Guest: Juanita C Liu - Interim Dean - Professor of Tourism - UH School of Travel Industry Management

* 4/F Salisbury Dining Room - YMCA of Hong Kong (41 Salisbury Road, Kowloon - Building is located right next to The Peninsula Hotel)

* April 22, 2009 - Wednesday 6:30 pm onward

* Dinner : Korean & Japanese Dinner Buffet - Priced at HK$228.00 + 10% service charge per person (US$33)

* Beverages : Juice, Soft drink, Beer, House Wine with compliments of YMCA of Hong Kong

A Symphony of Light Show - front road seat at the roof top of Salisbury YMCA - guests will enjoy the spectacular laser light show at our Rooftop Garden which commences at 8:00 pm sharp for 13 minutes.

RSVP for Dinner - by April 15, 2009.

Dean Emeritus Chuck Gee of UH School of TIM and UH Board of Regent was invited by the Tianjin government to be its tourism advisors - "Stars" in tourism industry gathering in Tianjin to offer ideas

Content of the "Chinese News Article" April 2009: "To build Tianjin as a tourism destination" summit was held this morning, it was organized by the Tianjin Tourism Group (TTG). Tourism experts from China and abroad gathered together in Tianjin to offer ideas for Tianjin's tourism development. TTG signed agreements with over 40 travel agencies to attract 300,000 domestic and foreign tourists to Tianjin this year.

"If you are not from Tianjin, what kind of tourist product will attract you to come to Tianjin"? Prof. Gee, Dean Emiratis of UH TIM school, tourism adviser to three US administrations, Prof. Qiantianyong, Wang Dawu, tourism research center of Shanghai Science Academy, Dai Bin, deputy director of China Tourism Reaches Center, were invited to give speeches. The speeches covered topics ranging from Tianjin tourism resources consolidation and product development, market promotion, market position to customer base segmentation. During the meeting, TTG signed cooperative agreements with over 40 travel agencies. In 2009, these travel companies will organize 20 tour charter flights, 20 charter train, 8 international cruise ships to bring 300,000 tourists to Tianjin. Dean Gee and Prof. Qiantianyong were invited by the Tianjin government to be its tourism advisors.

For information, please contact: Johnson Choi at (415) 963-1541 or 691-6138 (San Francisco USA); (808) 524-5738 (Hawaii USA), (852) 8171-3118 (Hong Kong SAR); Fax (808) 524-8063 or by email to johnsonchoi@johnsonchoi.com or johnsonwkchoi@yahoo.com

Jan 3 2009 8:09pm

Dr. Chuck Gee - One of The five new regents selected by the governor Lingle

Letter of Support by January 25 2009: http://www.johnsonchoi.com/chuckgeesupportletter.htm

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Lingle complies with court order, names 5 new UH regents

Complying with an order from the Hawai'i Supreme Court, Gov. Linda Lingle today announced she has selected five individuals to immediately replace University of Hawai'i regents who have been serving as holdovers since their terms expired at the end of June. The court's order, issued Dec. 4, 2008, found that Lingle's actions in holding over the regents violated state law. The names of the new appointees will be submitted to the state Senate for its advice and consent when it convenes later this month, Lingle's office said in a news release.

The five new regents selected by the governor are:

Dr. Ramon de la Pena will serve as the regent from Kaua'i County for a four-year term that expires June 30, 2012. An emeritus professor and agronomist at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, de la Pena has served on the Board of Regents since September 2004. When his term expired on June 30, 2008, the governor named de la Pena as a holdover regent.

Mark Fukunaga will serve as one of five regents from the City and County of Honolulu. Fukunaga, chairman and CEO of Servco Pacific Inc., will serve a term that expires on June 30, 2011.

Dr. Chuck Gee, former dean of the University of Hawai'i School of Travel Industry Management, will serve as one of five regents from the City and County of Honolulu. Gee will serve a term that expires on June 30, 2010.

Eric Martinson, managing director and vice president of Tradewind Capital Group, Inc., has also been appointed as one of five regents from the City and County of Honolulu. Martinson's term will expire on June 30, 2009.

Grant Teichman, a senior majoring in history and political science at the University of Hawai'i, has been selected to serve as the student regent. His term expires on June 30, 2010.

Since the Hawai'i Supreme Court's order that directed the governor select replacements for the six regents held over after their terms expired on June 30, 2008, from the list of qualified candidates presented to her by the Regents Candidate Advisory Council, two of the five candidates for the second at-large regent withdrew their names from consideration.

The governor has filed a motion to stay the effect of the Dec. 4 order and a motion requesting additional time to secure replacement nominations from the council from which to select a replacement for the at-large regent.

The Supreme Court has granted the motion for stay in order to consider the motion for additional time and any opposition that might be filed.

POSTED: 03:27 p.m. HST, Jan 03, 2009

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Lingle names new University of Hawaii regents

Gov. Linda Lingle is partially fulfilling a Hawaii Supreme Court order that she name new members to the University of Hawaii Board of Regents whose terms expired more than six months ago. Lingle announced today she has selected five people to immediately replace the holdovers, who she had tried to keep on the board rather than nominating new appointments.

The Supreme Court on Dec. 4 gave her 30 days to pick six candidates for the board. Lingle requested additional time from the court to choose the last regent.

The five new regents are University of Hawaii agronomist Ramon de la Pena, Servco Pacific chairman Mark Fukunaga, former University of Hawaii Travel Industry Management Dean Chuck Gee, Tradewind Capital Group Managing Director Eric Martinson and University of Hawaii student Grant Teichman.

By Invitation Only: Dean Emeritus Chuck Gee Celebrates his 75th Birthday with UH TIM Alumni, Faculty, Staff and Friends on August 16 2008 at the Hawaii Prince Hotel

Video Presentation by David Heenan, Former Dean of UH College of Business and Chairman of Campbell Estate

Video Presentation by UH TIM Alumni Clyde Min, Vice President - Asia Pacific, Kingdom Hotels

Video Singing Happy Brithday and Presentation by Chuck Gee

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Wednesday - July 9 2008 - UH TIM School EDIT Reception (30th Anniversary) at the Hilton Hawaii Prince Hotel, Remarks by Dean Emeritus Chuck Gee

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May 4 2008: Celebrating 2008 SBA Minority Small Business Champion of the Year - National Winner Award with Dean Emeritus Chuck Gee, Brenda Foster - President of AmCham Shanghai, Larry Foster - Former Dean and Professor of UH Law School, Dennis & Brenda Teranishi - CEO of Hawaiian Host Chocolates, Michael & Jenny Zhang - President and CEO of Blue Hawaii Surf, Yen Chun & Dickie Ching - COO of CMC Consulting Group Inc and Shao Jun Zhang - Dean of Fudan Shanghai Art College at the Mandalay Restaurant

March 26 2008 Tim Marsden, GM of Langham Hotel London, Dean Emeritus Chuck Gee and Johnson Choi

February 14 2008 - Pacific Club, Honolulu Hawaii: “An Update of the Business Climate in China” Opportunities Niches for Hawaii China Business? by BRENDA LEI FOSTER, PRESIDENT, American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai attended by more than 100 guests including UH TIM Alumni and Friends

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February 2 2008 - Honolulu Hawaii: Meeting with Eugene Ong, General Manager of Crowne Plaza International Airport Beijing, Linda Ong and Chuck Gee on China Travel Related Business Opportunities

January 5 2008 - Honolulu Hawaii - Grand Cafe and Bakery - An Afternoon with Brenda Foster - President of American Chamber of Commerce Shanghai, Lawrence Foster - Former Dean and Professor of University of Hawaii Law School, Dean Emeritus Chuck Gee of University of Hawaii School of Travel Industry Management, Michael Zhang and Yen Chun of CMC Consulting Group Inc.

(Front left to Right: Johnson Choi, Yen Chun and Brenda Foster; Back Left to Right: Michael Zhang, Chuck Gee and Lawrence Foster)

Dean Emeritus Chuck Gee Celebrates his 74th Birthday with UH TIM Alumni and Friends at the Romano Macaroni Grill on August 25, 2007

Dean Emeritus Chuck Gee was one of the seven top judges selected for the Taipei International Chinese Cuisine Competition between Aug 8 - 11 2007 in Taipei, Taiwan - Singapore team won the first place, Taiwan team second.

Dean Emeritus Chuck Gee Celebrates his 73rd Birthday with Alumni and Friends at the Shanghai Bristo Restaurant on August 27, 2006

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Dean Emeritus Chuck Gee Celebrates his 72nd Birthday

Dean Emeritus Chuck Gee Celebrates his 71st Birthday

    Dean Emeritus Chuck Gee of the University of Hawaii School of Travel Industry Management, Director and Founding Members of the Hong Kong China Hawaii Chamber of Commerce celebrated his 71st birthday with a small group of Chamber members, alumni and friends.

August 28, 2003 is being named "Chuck Yim Gee Day" by Governor Linda Lingle of the State of Hawaii and Mayor Jeremy Harris of the City and County of Honolulu on his 70th Birthday

CHUCK GEE, Dean Emeritus

Chuck Y. Gee served as Dean of the School of Travel Industry Management from 1976 until his retirement in December 1999.  Under his leadership, the school has grown and gained an international reputation throughout the U.S. and the Pacific-Asia region.  He also served as Interim Dean of the College of Business Administration for the Fiscal Year 1998-99.  He is a recognized international authority on tourism and hospitality education, training and research and authored a number of widely recognized textbooks in the field.  He has also been a management advisor and consultant to numerous domestic and foreign institutions, international hotel chains, restaurants and clubs, air carriers and national tourism organizations.

Chuck Gee has frequently served on government advisory bodies, both state and national, including chair of the State Tourism Training Council, and three terms on the Travel and Tourism Advisory Board of the U.S. Department of Commerce.  An active board member of many tourism and service related organizations, he received the 1992 “Award of Excellence for Tourism Education” given by the National Tourism Administration of the People’s Republic of China, the 1991 Grand Award of the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) for Individual Educational Accomplishment, Life Member Award of PATA at the annual 1990 conference held in Vancouver, PATA’s Presidential Award in 1986, the 1987 NOAH Award given by the Academy of Tourism Organizations, and a 1988 Travel Industry Hall of Leaders Award presented by the Travel Industry Association of America.  In 1995, the State of Hawaii honored him as “State Manager of the Year”.  He was most recently recognized by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin as one of the 100 people who made a difference for the State of Hawaii during the 20^th Century. He is the Director and Founding Members of the Hong Kong China Hawaii Chamber of Commerce in 2001.

.....Chuck Gee was one who made a difference as a "forceful public advocate for tourism"...and in building a different kind of school to serve the global travel industry....Honolulu Star Bulletin - Excerpts from the Commemorate Edition - December 31, 1999.

Dean Emeritus Chuck Gee celebrated his 70th Birthday on Thursday, August 28, 2003 at the Monarch Room of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel and to raise funds for the "Chuck Yim Gee-Hawaii Scholarship Endowment at the National Tourism Foundation***".....by invitation only.

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THE GEE TECHNOLOGY LEARNING CENTER

The Gee Technology Learning Center, named in honor of Dean Emeritus Chuck Yim Gee, was made possible largely by the generous donations of the School of Travel Industry Management alumni association, TIM International, Inc., and the endowments of Kitaro Watanabe and Leong Hop & Bernice C. Loui.

The Center, which opened January 24, 2003, includes an executive videoconference suite, and a multi-media computer learning laboratory with Smartboard technology.  The Center also houses the School's multi-purpose computer room and open lab provided by the endowment of Leong Hop and Bernice C. Loui.

The Gee Technology Learning Center is a unique resource in travel industry higher education that provides a platform for the School to deliver high-quality programs both on-campus and by distance. The Center serves as a focal point for studies around the management of electronic network information systems and services in the travel industry, dynamically evolving travel distribution systems, as well as a wide range of technology applications across the industry.

On-Campus: The Center will enrich the current undergraduate and graduate curricula with an executive videoconference suite giving access to experts around the globe to enrich student learning, and will allow the expertise of the TIM School faculty to be shared elsewhere at educational institutions and with the industry.

The multi-media computer instruction labs allow for dynamic instruction in technology applications for the travel industry including software programs for property management systems, point-of-sale systems and on-line applications development software. Transportation systems software, financial applications and tourism destination and marketing management systems will also be added.

Distance Education: Synchronous and non-synchronous on-line credit and non-credit courses are coordinated from the Center to constituents who cannot be on campus due to geographic, time or other constraints. These courses will serve the need for travel industry management education across the Hawaiian Islands and potentially the rest of the world.

The on-line graduate certificate program, e-TIM will be coordinated from the Center.

Knowledge Dissemination: The Center will house a web-accessible tourism knowledge database for the Pacific-Asia region that will assist researchers in their studies. This will be accomplished in conjunction with the Sunset Reference Center and the Leong Hop and Bernice Loui Computer Lab.

Professional Industry Programs: The TIM School's professional programs, including custom programs for industry and programs hosted in conjunction with private industry's own training needs, will also make use of the facility.

Chuck Gee is author and/or co-author of the following books and/or publications/articles:

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