AREAA Boston Eats: Network, Celebrate & Grow

AREAA Boston’s November Eats lunch is Friday, November 20, 2026, from 12:00 to 2:00 PM at My Happy Hunan Kitchen, 1926 Beacon Street in Brighton. The chapter calls it food, Q4 deal talk, and relationship time before year-end—not a formal continuing-education class. Members pay $15; non-members $25. Eventbrite tells members to use their AREAA email as the discount code. Public write-ups list Bank of America and Flynn Law Group as sponsors.

AREAA is the national Asian American real-estate trade association. Boston’s chapter is the local agent, lender, and transaction-attorney graph; chapter president Conan Soohoo is the contact on the AREAA page (bostonareaa@gmail.com). The chapter’s Taste of the World night earlier in the fall sat on the waterfront; this lunch puts the same network on Beacon Street in Brighton, closer to Allston’s Asian commercial strip. AREPA’s commercial CRE holiday party at Democracy Brewing on December 2 is a different association with a near-identical acronym—do not mix the badges.

Agents, loan officers, transaction attorneys, and investors who work Asian American buyers and sellers in Greater Boston will get the most from a two-hour table. A Downtown after-work bar or a Kendall lab night will not feel like this room. Friday noon favors people who can leave the desk for lunch.

Brighton Beacon Street is Green Line–adjacent; street parking fills. Buy through AREAA or Eventbrite and keep the confirmation. If the member discount fails at checkout, email the chapter before you assume the $25 non-member tier is wrong.