Jason Liang (chef)

Liang was born in South Carolina.^[4] He grew up in Taiwan but moved back to the United States in 2006.^[4][5] Liang's wife and business partner is ChingYao Wang, a pastry chef who bakes pastries for many of their restaurants.^[4][6][7] Liang and Wang first met during their internship at the Regent Taipei in Taipei, Taiwan.^[7]

After moving back to the United States in 2006, Liang worked as a sushi chef at One Sushi Plus in Brookhaven and later at Craft Izakaya in Krog Street Market.^[4][5][8]

In April 2016, Jason opened his own restaurant located in Decatur called Brush Sushi Izakaya with business partner John Chen.^[8] In 2017, Liang was named as one of StarChef's Rising Stars for his work at Brush Sushi Izakaya.^[9] In 2018, Liang opened another restaurant, Momonoki ("peach tree"), in Midtown Atlanta, which specialized in tsukemen.^[6][10][7]

In 2022, Liang was a semifinalist for the James Beard Foundation Award – Best Chef: Southeast (GA, KY, NC, SC, TN, WV), for Brush sushi Izakaya.^[3] Later that year, Liang and his business partner John Chen closed their restaurant Brush Sushi Izakaya; however, in 2023, they reopened Brush, now O by Brush, in Buckhead Village, Atlanta.^[10]

In October 2024, O by Brush was awarded a Michelin Guide Star for its dry-aged fish omakase program.^[2][11][12] In that same year, Liang's other restaurant Lucky Star, a Taiwanese cafe and cocktail bar located in West Midtown that opened on December 6, 2024, was added to the Michelin recommended list.^{[10][2][11][13]}

In March 2025, Liang opened a sushi-style hand roll restaurant located in Dunwoody, Georgia called Cuddlefish with his business partner John Chen.^[10][14] Before the 2025 opening of Cuddlefish, Liang and Chen had operated a previous restaurant called Cuddlefish in 2022 after briefly closing Brush but then closed Cuddlefish in 2023 to refocus on Brush.^[10][15]

In November 2025, Liang's restaurant O by Brush retained its Michelin Guide Star status.^[16]