Credits

Media sources

Every photo on this site, where it came from, how it is licensed and what was done to it. Reference numbers (M001 and up) stay the same when photos are added.

Photos and artwork

Stock photos are from Pexels under the Pexels license: free to use, including commercially, with no attribution required. Staff portraits show stock models, not First Wok employees. Items marked “Source to confirm” are listed as far as we know and need checking before launch.

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M001 A Chef Cooking Fried Rice in a Wok

Photographer: Anna Tarazevich
Original: Original page (opens in a new tab)
License: Pexels license
Date retrieved: Not recorded (in the repo since 2026-10-21)
Shown on: Home (hero background)
What was done to it: Resized to 1200 px wide and saved as JPEG (file is 1200×1800); shown as a cover background, so the top and bottom are cropped by the CSS.
File: site/assets/stock/pexels-6937435.jpg

M002 Banquet table in dark restaurant with loft style

Photographer: Photographer not recorded
Original: Original page (opens in a new tab)
License: Pexels license
Date retrieved: Not recorded (in the repo since 2026-10-21)
Shown on: Home (catering section); admin photo picker
What was done to it: Resized to 1200 px wide and saved as JPEG (file is 1200×1800); shown cropped to 3:2 landscape by the site CSS.
File: site/assets/stock/pexels-4577410.jpg

M003 A Person Cooking on Black Pan

Source to confirm. Title and URL come from the old CREDITS.md. The Pexels page blocked automated checks, so the photographer and the link were not verified.

Photographer: Photographer not recorded
Original: Original page (opens in a new tab)
License: Pexels license
Date retrieved: 2026-11-04 (added to the repo)
Shown on: Home (team section)
What was done to it: Cropped to landscape, 1200×800, saved as JPEG.
File: site/assets/stock/pexels-10324706.jpg

M004 A Person Holding a Chopsticks while Cooking Food

Photographer: Photographer not recorded
Original: Original page (opens in a new tab)
License: Pexels license
Date retrieved: Not recorded (in the repo since 2026-10-21)
Shown on: Admin photo picker only (not on a public page)
What was done to it: Resized to 1200 px wide and saved as JPEG (file is 1200×1800).
File: site/assets/stock/pexels-9016833.jpg

M005 Woman Smiling while Cooking

Photographer: Photographer not recorded
Original: Original page (opens in a new tab)
License: Pexels license
Date retrieved: Not recorded (in the repo since 2026-10-21)
Shown on: Our team (head chef portrait)
What was done to it: Resized to 1200 px wide and saved as JPEG (file is 1200×1800); shown as a small round avatar by the CSS.
File: site/assets/stock/pexels-10432362.jpg

M006 Man in Black Vest Standing Beside a Window

Photographer: Yan Krukau
Original: Original page (opens in a new tab)
License: Pexels license
Date retrieved: Not recorded (in the repo since 2026-10-21)
Shown on: Our team (dining room manager portrait)
What was done to it: Resized to 1200 px wide and saved as JPEG (file is 1200×1800); shown as a small round avatar by the CSS.
File: site/assets/stock/pexels-6817133.jpg

M007 Happy young woman in apron smiling at camera

Photographer: Photographer not recorded
Original: Original page (opens in a new tab)
License: Pexels license
Date retrieved: Not recorded (in the repo since 2026-10-21)
Shown on: Our team (server portrait)
What was done to it: Resized to 1200 px wide and saved as JPEG (file is 1200×1779); shown as a small round avatar by the CSS.
File: site/assets/stock/pexels-6205635.jpg

M008 Round tables with flowers (admin picker label only)

Source to confirm. The file name is a Pexels photo number, but no title, photographer or page link was ever recorded and the Pexels page blocked automated checks.

Photographer: Not recorded
Original: Not recorded
License: Pexels license (assumed from the file name; not confirmed)
Date retrieved: Not recorded (in the repo since 2026-10-21)
Shown on: Catering (Lantern Room banquet room)
What was done to it: Not recorded. File is 1200×800 JPEG.
File: site/assets/stock/pexels-16120265.jpg

M009 Large banquet hall (admin picker label only)

Source to confirm. The file name is a Pexels photo number, but no title, photographer or page link was ever recorded and the Pexels page blocked automated checks.

Photographer: Not recorded
Original: Not recorded
License: Pexels license (assumed from the file name; not confirmed)
Date retrieved: Not recorded (in the repo since 2026-10-21)
Shown on: Catering (banquet room card, first room)
What was done to it: Not recorded. File is 1200×800 JPEG.
File: site/assets/stock/pexels-33852660.jpg

M010 Stir Fry Noodles with Vegetables

Photographer: Shardar Tarikul Islam
Original: Original page (opens in a new tab)
License: Pexels license
Date retrieved: 2026-10-07
Shown on: Our team (photo block); Menu and Home (noodle dishes)
What was done to it: Downloaded as the 900 px wide version (pexels-photo-8983410.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&w=900); no other edits. Shown as 3:2 on the Our team page.
File: site/assets/noodles.jpg

M011 Shared Chinese American meal, overhead (generated image)

Photographer: Generated with the imagegen tool; no photographer
Original: No web page; see site_concept/ASSETS.md
License: No third-party license. Made for the First Wok mockup
Date retrieved: 2026-10-07 (generated)
Shown on: Menu and Home (most dish photos)
What was done to it: Original 1536×1024 PNG resized to 1400×933 and saved as WebP. Prompt is in site_concept/ASSETS.md.
File: site/assets/feast.webp

M012 Glazed orange chicken on a plate (generated image)

Photographer: Generated with the imagegen tool; no photographer
Original: No web page; see site_concept/ASSETS.md
License: No third-party license. Made for the First Wok mockup
Date retrieved: 2026-10-07 (generated)
Shown on: Menu and Home (chicken dishes)
What was done to it: Original 1536×1024 PNG resized to 800×533 and saved as WebP. Prompt is in site_concept/ASSETS.md.
File: site/assets/chicken.webp

M013 Pan-fried pork dumplings (generated image)

Photographer: Generated with the imagegen tool; no photographer
Original: No web page; see site_concept/ASSETS.md
License: No third-party license. Made for the First Wok mockup
Date retrieved: 2026-10-07 (generated)
Shown on: Menu and Home (dumpling dishes)
What was done to it: Original 1536×1024 PNG resized to 800×533 and saved as WebP. Prompt is in site_concept/ASSETS.md.
File: site/assets/dumplings.webp

M014 First Wok logo

Photographer: First Wok (own artwork)
Original: Not applicable
License: First Wok's own artwork
Date retrieved: Supplied with the existing First Wok brand
Shown on: Every page (header and footer); the lettering is reused in the Home name band
What was done to it: Vector file; the footer shows it in white by CSS filter.
File: site/assets/logo_red.svg

Software and data

Hanzi Writer 3.7.3 by David Chanin, MIT license. Animates 第一鍋 on the home page. File: assets/hanzi/hanzi-writer.min.js.
Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi through the hanzi-writer-data 2.0.1 package, derived from the Arphic fonts and used under the Arphic Public License. Unmodified except the file names. Files: assets/hanzi/u*.json.
Fonts DM Sans and Playfair Display, SIL Open Font License. License texts: assets/dmsans-OFL.txt and assets/playfairdisplay-OFL.txt.

Details and license texts: assets/hanzi/CREDITS.md.

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