02/10/2026
Over the years, we’ve often celebrated the Lunar New Year as a studio with a dumpling-making party. This year, we broadened the ritual, inviting friends from the design community to join us in decorating delivery bags for Heart of Dinner, an extraordinary organization whose SoHo headquarters and project space we are currently designing.
This is a dark time in America, especially for immigrant communities who are under assault and feeling vulnerable and afraid. Heart of Dinner was founded in 2020, during another moment of deep uncertainty, by and with an initial goal of delivering 20,000 care packages with culturally familiar groceries and meals to homebound Asian seniors isolated by the pandemic. Today, they have made *250,000* deliveries, each one full of nourishment and care, contained in a lovingly decorated bag and accompanied with a handwritten note.
The space we are designing for Heart of Dinner will support this work and more. It will be a place for making, gathering, bag decorating, fighting food insecurity, and building community. At a time when many of us are asking how our work can have real impact, these kinds of gatherings are small but mighty examples. Friends coming together to put creativity in service of care can make a real difference.
The Year of the Horse is about movement, transformation, and urgent positive change. We are proud to be working with this organization, to host in this way, to contribute, and, yes, to test and enjoy a few dumpling recipes too: Classic pork and shrimp, steamed fish, and smoked tofu with mushroom and garlic chive.
We at MKCA wish you and yours a happy, prosperous, and transformational . Please follow if you would like to support their work, or look for ways in your own community to show care and celebrate the diverse, multicultural fabric that truly makes this country great.
A great big thank you to for the fab photos and videos.
