authentic asian food, built for the backcountry.
Kung pao, bulgogi bibimbap, black sesame porridge: our families' real recipes, with 60g+ protein and up to 850 calories in one honest pouch.
from our families' kitchens to your bear canister.
We make the asian food we grew up eating. The real stuff: real gochujang, real szechuan peppercorn, real heat.
Matt and Geo, Chinese American and Korean American, cooking our families' actual recipes and tuning them into complete trail meals. Most backcountry food treats "asian" as a flavor packet. We treat it as dinner worth looking forward to, ten miles from the nearest road.
Dinner at camp should be the best part of the day. Not the part you endure.
So every pouch is a real dish, a real portion, and a real meal. Vegetables that earned their place, protein that actually refuels you, and flavor you would happily eat at sea level. One pouch, one person, no "two servings" asterisk.
Built from dishes we actually crave: dan dan heat, gochujang depth, toasted black sesame. Taste is the whole point.
650 to 850 calories and 60g+ protein per dinner, from whole chicken breast and real beef. Eat the whole thing.
No fine print, no rationing. One pouch is one honest dinner for one tired, hungry human.
Each one is a dish we actually cook at home, rebuilt to survive a freeze dryer and a bear canister. Hover to see it on the trail. Tap any meal for photos, nutrition facts, ingredients, and the story behind the recipe.
Szechuan peppercorn buzz, whole chicken breast, peanuts in their own packet so they stay loud. Tingly, garlicky, worth the last switchback.
Sweet soy beef over rice with a gochujang kick and vegetables that earned their spot. The stone-pot dinner you grew up on, minus the stone pot.
Black sesame and roasted soybean kinako over quick oats, with freeze dried banana, walnuts, and brown sugar. One packet, boiling water, five minutes.
An instant matcha latte with ceremonial attitude and trailhead speed. Creamy, grassy, gently caffeinated. Whisk optional. Sunrise strongly encouraged.
Japanese chicken curry is leading the taste tests. The roster gets the deciding vote, and the prototypes. This is what build-in-public tastes like.
Planned launch pricing. Nutrition numbers are recipe targets from our test kitchen; every label gets lab-verified before we sell a single pouch.
Not a studio. A ridgeline at golden hour, a hot bowl in cold hands, the climb still ahead. The food is the excuse. The morning is the reason.
We will only do this once. Here is our kung pao next to what the category usually offers, on the numbers that matter after a long day.
| summit panda kung pao chicken |
mountain house kung pao chicken |
peak refuel chicken teriyaki rice |
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|---|---|---|---|
| calories / pouch | 750 | 580 | 580 |
| protein / pouch | 60g | 32g | 40g |
| price / pouch | $15.00 | $12.49 | $13.99 |
| cost per gram of protein | $0.25 | $0.39 | $0.35 |
| servings claimed | 1, honestly | "2" | "2" |
| recipe by | chinese + korean american founders | a legacy food brand | a trail-nutrition brand |
Competitor figures from mountainhouse.com and peakrefuel.com, June 2026. Our sticker is higher; per gram of protein, we are the better deal, and it actually tastes like the dish on the label. Our numbers are test-kitchen targets, lab-verified before launch.
Bundles built the way trips actually happen. Per-pouch savings on every kit.
The classic overnighter, fully catered.
Six dinners, one box, zero decision fatigue at the hiker box.
One of everything from the first production run, numbered.
Matt is Chinese American. Geo is Korean American. Between us: a few hundred trail miles a year, two families who treat dinner as a love language, and one freeze dryer that lives where a dining table should.
The first meal off that machine was chicken pho, eaten in Yosemite in June 2026 after a long day on the trail. It was really good. Not "good for trail food." Good. That is the bar now, and nothing launches until it clears.
We are building summit panda in public, recipe by recipe, batch by batch, failed dehydrator experiments included.
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where it startedtwo friends, a few hundred trail miles a year, and a refusal to eat badly in beautiful places.
Claim a role. Get a number. Eat before everyone else when the first batch comes off the line in spring 2027.
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Welcome aboard. Dispatches are rare and mostly about dinner.
We are Chinese American and Korean American, cooking our families' real recipes: real gochujang, real Szechuan peppercorn, real heat. Most trail food waters "asian" down to a sweet beige flavor packet. We keep the dishes the way we actually eat them, then make them trail-ready.
Real. Whole chicken breast and real beef, not textured vegetable protein. Dinners hit 60g+ protein and 650 to 850 calories in one honest serving, so you actually refuel instead of going to sleep hungry.
It costs you more because it costs us more: whole-muscle meat, real Szechuan peppercorn and gochujang, and adult-sized portions. And it is genuinely good. Per gram of protein, $15 for 60g is actually the better deal in the category, and it tastes like the dish on the label.
No. You are walking up a mountain.
Spring 2027. The first production batch ships to the expedition roster in roster order. Everything between now and then happens in public at @geoandmatt.
Straight answer, no bit: peanuts ride with the kung pao (in their own sachet), tree nuts and sesame live in the porridge, soy appears across the menu. Full verified allergen panels publish before we sell anything. We joke about a lot here. Never about this.