Chen is a 2018 Iron Chef Canada winner on the inaugural episode of the Food Network Canada series; a team leader of Team Canada’s top-10 finish at the 2013 Bocuse d’Or in Lyon, France; a Gold Medal Plate, B.C. regional champion at the 2015 and ’17 editions; a gold-medal winner at the national 2018 Canadian Culinary Championships; a Chef of the Year title at the Vancouver Magazine Restaurants Awards; and the acclaimed co-founder of Vancouver’s Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar in 2014.