at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, Asian Palate was awarded the 'Best Food and Wine Pairing Book in the World'. In June 2011, at the International Association of Culinary Professionals Cookbook Awards 2011, Asian Palate won under the category of 'Wine, Beer or Spirits' category Same month, Asian Palate won under the category of 'Wines and Gastronomy' category at the 2011 OIV Awards. Lee launched her website AsianPalate.com in May 2010. Lee's second book, Mastering Wine for the Asian Palate (2011), provides a fresh Asian perspective, introducing a new set of Asian wine descriptors. Both books are in their second reprint and are available in English, Korean and simplified Chinese. Lee's third book The 100 Burgundy, available in English and in Chinese, won the 2020 Gourmand Award for Best Wine Book in the World for French wines and is currently sold out and reprinted in late 2022. Lee is currently a professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) where she helped to launch the Master of Science (MSc) in International Wine Management program offered by the School of Hotel and Tourism Management (SHTM). She is also a Visiting Professor at the Chinese Culinary Institute and the International Culinary Institute. She is the former Publisher and CEO of LE PAN, a wine lifestyle publication. Lee is a sought-after speaker, traveling the world giving seminars and masterclasses on wine, the Chinese market and the quickly evolving Asian consumer market. Lee was selected as one of the top 100 most influential people in Hong Kong by the South China Morning Post and Debrett's in November 2015. She was named the 25th most powerful person in wine by Decanter magazine (UK) and was listed among the top 60 most influential people in wine by La Revue du Vin (France) in 2015. Recognized for her contributions to the food and wine industry, Lee was awarded Knight in the National Order of the Legion of Honour (Chevalier dans l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur) in 2021 by the President of France. Over the past decade, Lee has devoted increasingly more time to charities and has raised millions of US dollars for worthy causes including Room to Read, Mother’s Choice and the Hong Kong Society for the Protection for Children. She sits on the board of the Asia Pacific Council of The Nature Conservancy where she raised over US$20 million in the past 6 years as