Our popular FISH FRY tradition returns!

Saturday, September 7, 2024
Hacienda Heights Community Center
1234 Valencia Ave
Hacienda Heights, CA 91745

FREE admission
(We encourage you to bring a dish or dessert, enough to share with 5 to 10)

LACAAEA has held the Fish Fry event for over 40 years starting out at Mother’s Beach in Marina del Rey, where LACAAEA members would fish and cook the fish on a propane stove sharing their catch with their friends and family who would join them later in the day. Over the years, LACAAEA moved the event indoors and bought fresh fish from Asian supermarkets. We also added seafood stew to our main dish offerings and encouraged attendees to bring dishes from their culture. It became a multicultural event. Later we moved the event to Dockweiler Youth Center gradually moving east to Whittier Narrows Park and now to Hacienda Heights Community Center, a County park in the east San Gabriel Valley, with a kitchen. Last year, we had an incredible turn out of over 250 members and their family!

This event is a friends and family event so it's FREE to attend. All that we ask is that you RSVP (below) by September 5, 2024, so we can get an accurate headcount for the amount of seafood stew (aka cioppino) and the fried fish that will be prepared by our chef extraordinaire, Peter Luong (Compliance Analyst for DPW and LACAAEA's VP of Program and Events).  Come hungry, invite your family, friends, and colleagues.  Also, we encourage everyone to bring a side dish, entrée, or dessert large enough to share with ten or more people.

There will be kids activities indoors, and a basketball court, playground and walking path at the surrounding outdoor park. We will also have resource tables for the County departments to share information about their programs to outreach to the community about their services.
 

This is a great opportunity to come together as ONE family and enjoy some delicious food. We hope to see you there!