A Dartmouth College and University of Colorado School of Law graduate, Clay Fong began writing about food in 2006 by co-authoring a guide book, The Gyro’s Journey: Affordable Ethnic Eateries along the Front Range. That same year, he also became the dining critic for the Boulder Weekly. He was with the Weekly until 2013, when he was hired for his current position as the dining critic for the Boulder Daily Camera.

He maintains his strongest credential is his experience in eating — he’s been doing it all his life. Growing up in the San Francisco Bay area, Clay became familiar with diverse cuisines resulting from his family’s obsession with food. A family appreciation of both Asian and Italian food stemmed from his Dad’s experiences as a San Francisco Chinatown kid playing baseball with North Beach teammates. In high school, while his classmates were smoking down by the creek, Clay would spend his free periods haunting Oakland’s taco wagons and pho parlors.