Henry Hong to Be SOUPSTOCK Judge

Henry Hong of Waterfront Kitchen

Henry Hong of Waterfront Kitchen has volunteered to be a judge for the soup competition at SOUPSTOCK on September 27, 2013 at Oregon Ridge Lodge.

Just as he began to walk and talk, Henry's parents decided to open a restaurant. Coincidence? Doubtful, as he was pressed into "helping out" straight away, despite labor laws of the time. Indeed while his peers struggled with multiplication tables, Henry could calculate sales tax - and more importantly, tip percentage - in his head.

Eventually he succumbed to the call of the cubicle and got a so-called real job. But after a lengthy stint as a database analyst, he found himself, perhaps inevitably, back in the biz, having operated two restaurants in the past 10 years.

Now in addition to constantly cooking, eating, or just plain thinking about food, he is also writing about it in the City Paper, Baltimore Magazine, and affiliate publications nationwide, talking about it on the radio on WYPR, and running the front of the house at Waterfront Kitchen in Baltimore.