Because of a fruitful profession in legislation, Wong had the chance to journey all through the globe over the span of a decade and was uncovered to many alternative cultures and experiences alongside the way in which that helped her carry to life what The Roundtree is at present. We had the possibility to be taught extra about Wong’s lawyer-turned-hotelier background and the way she’s woven her Chinese language background into the lodge’s magic, from its culinary choices to particular occasions.
How Wong has woven her background into the inspiration of her enterprise
Though you is likely to be fooled in any other case—due to the impeccable lodge she operates at present—Wong didn’t come from a background in hospitality, per se. “Turning into a hotelier is an entire departure from what most of my skilled profession has seemed like. I studied legislation at New York College,” Wong says.
To that finish, Wong says that she realized loads about find out how to run a profitable hospitality enterprise whereas touring world wide. “After working at a legislation agency in New York Metropolis for a number of years, I joined a know-how agency and was based mostly in Asia for about 10 years. I used to be liable for the authorized affairs of its rising markets enterprise, so I spent loads of time touring in Asia, Latin America, Jap Europe, and Africa. That was an unbelievable expertise, professionally,” Wong says. “On a private stage, with the ability to reside and work throughout the globe suits my curiosity completely. I’ve at all times loved touring.”
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What’s extra, her ardour and curiosity for cultures world wide is what impressed her core values in her enterprise at present. “Due to these travels, it’s helped to border up the creation and expertise that’s delivered at The Roundtree, from the design aesthetic right down to the service,” Wong says. Since her ardour for hospitality and design impressed the lodge, she notes that each final element displays her values and experiences. “The property’s ethos is 100% related to my roots.”
One such method was the lodge’s Lunar New Yr celebrations, which featured culinary applications with Asian American restaurateurs and “fastidiously chosen design parts,” Wong says. “This previous 12 months, we excitedly added Lunar New Yr celebrations inside our first-ever culinary collection that befell within the winter.” The celebrations included the Savor the Hamptons collection, which introduced a various group of cooks from New York Metropolis for weekend residencies for company to expertise unique food-focused applications.
“For the Lunar New Yr, we hosted a conventional expertise at our Seashore Home. It spotlighted the vacation’s traditional traditions, supplied a dumpling-making alternative for company, allow them to pattern a wide range of totally different conventional meals, and revel in conventional tea,” Wong says.
What’s in retailer on the lodge subsequent?
Going into its third 12 months of operation, Wong says the applications and modern methods she will be able to weave her cultural ties are nonetheless evolving. “As of proper now, we’re a lot within the planning technique of our upcoming programming,” she says. Whereas she’s within the improvement course of, Wong hopes to recreate the success of the winter-timed Savor the Hamptons culinary collection they hosted earlier this 12 months. “Particularly, we’re excited to spotlight feminine culinary leaders and hospitality innovators this 12 months, and I am wanting ahead to partnering with a various vary of cooks. Each taste, delicacies, and type of consolation meals has a spot at our desk,” she says.
“Particularly, we’re excited to spotlight feminine culinary leaders and hospitality innovators this 12 months, and I am wanting ahead to partnering with a various vary of cooks. Each taste, delicacies, and type of consolation meals has a spot at our desk,”—Sylvia Wong, founder, The Roundtree, Amagansett
The core of her operation, nevertheless? Her company, which is why Wong welcomes any and all suggestions from those that keep on the lodge to reinforce their expertise additional. “From the day The Roundtree opened its doorways to welcome its first company three years in the past, we’ve been blessed to have acquired constant suggestions from our company concerning the understated luxurious and serenity of the property and the bespoke service they acquired. We’re thrilled as we got down to create a wonderful place the place our company would really feel like it’s their second dwelling,” Wong says.
