Alma Welcomes Seasoned Chef to Senior Kitchen Ranks

Equipped with 11 years’ experience cooking a variety of cuisines, South Korean-born Taehoon Lee has been appointed Korean chef de cuisine.

He will oversee Korean cuisine at the resort’s recently reopened Asiana restaurant and introduce Korean cuisine to Alma’s Food Court.

He joins Alma after working at Vietnam’s Banyan Tree Lang Co as executive sous chef. Following his studies at South Korea’s Hotel Tourism Vocational College in Ansan, he started his career at Incheon’s Italian restaurant T Robin before progressing to two Michelin-starred fine dining sushi restaurant Shoukouwa at Raffles Singapore as a line cook leader and one Michelin-starred French restaurant Dining In Space as chef de partie. 

He has also worked at Peruvian restaurant Y Gaston in Lima, deemed among the World’s Top 33 Restaurants in 2017, premium Korean beef BBQ restaurant Sibsamdae in Incheon, and Sokcho’s brunch café Starian. Since he moved to Vietnam in 2021, he has heated up the frying pan at Ho Chi Minh City’s Bornga restaurant, Mandarin Oriental Saigon, and Ourhome at Hai Phong’s Kovie Hotel.

“With 14 diverse and vibrant dining outlets offering a range of local and international cuisines, Taehoon’s incredible and varied track record will propel Alma’s rich dining landscape to new heights with exceptional Korean fare,” said Alma’s managing director Herbert Laubichler-Pichler. “He brings a wealth of knowledge and skills that contribute to Alma’s truly multicultural culinary sphere.”

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