Chomparazzi: Pichet Ong

Chomparazzi: Pichet Ong

Pichet’s father worked in building and construction, and Pichet studied architecture at U.C. Berkeley. “So being an architect would have been the ideal thing for the family business," he says. Now a renowned pastry chef without a culinary degree, he says he “hires people with good work ethic. School doesn’t teach you that.”