Asia Lui Chapa is an Author, Recipe Developer, and Video Creator best known for her Instagram account @ac_homecafe. She was born and raised between Temple City and Alhambra and fell in love with the art of making drinks in 2020. She started by posting simple drink videos for fun, and now creates recipes for coffee, tea, and everything in between. Her goal was to create easy, delicious, and eye-catching beverages that anyone can make at home. Her love for drinks was recently documented in her debut book, The Home Café: Creative Recipes for Espresso, Matcha, Tea and Coffee Drinks.
Before pursuing recipe development and video creating, Asia's professional background included everything from running reception desks, tutoring psychology students, and working as a community crisis counselor. While working in the mental health field by day, she taste-tested and prepped for her drink videos by night, slowly developing a passion Asia didn’t realize she had.
Asia started AC Home Café in March 2020, the first global quarantine had just started, and she had just been laid off while completing her Master’s degree in legal and forensic psychology. One of the things that comforted her during that time were home café videos. They were soothing, aesthetic, and looked delicious. Asia was inspired, bored from being at home all day, and decided to shoot my first video. After a few weeks, I started posting videos on TikTok and Instagram with ingredient lists and, later on, recipes. Since then, she has gotten the chance to work with brands like Guinness, Captain Morgan, and Peet’s Coffee (just to name a few) in addition to writing her first cookbook.
Website: achomecafe.com
Instagram: @ac_homecafe
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