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Thai Dang
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Thai Dang is executive chef of HaiSous Vietnamese Kitchen in Chicago.[1]
His West Loop, Chicago restaurant Embeya was an Esquire magazine best new restaurant winner.[2] Embeya closed in 2015 after his business partner committed a $300,000 embezzlement and fled the country to Spain.[3][4] In 2020 a federal judge sentenced Attila Gyulai to three years of probation after he pled guilty to wire fraud following his arrest and extradition from Spain.[5][6]
Dang's next restaurant HaiSous opened in 2017 in Pilsen, Chicago,[7] and reached the semi-final for the James Beard Award for Best New Restaurant. In 2022, Dang’s restaurants Dang Good Wings and Cà Phê Đá opened on campus at the University of Chicago.[8] In 2024 Dang continued collaborating with Black Sheep Restaurants in Hong Kong at their Vietnamese concepts Le Garçon Saigon and Chôm Chôm.[9] Dang was a finalist for best chef Great Lakes at the 2025 James Beard Awards.[10][11][12][13][14]
Crying Tiger in River North is Dang’s first restaurant concept with Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises.[15][16]
Dang cites Laurent Gras of L2O among his culinary influences.[7]
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Personal life
Dang was born in Dong Nai province, the youngest child among six brothers and three sisters.[17] In 1989, the family fled Vietnam as refugees to Bataan, the Philippines, and later settled in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois sponsored by a Catholic non-profit organisation.[17]
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