Mentors
Every kitchen I trained in. Every chef who corrected my hand. The lineage I carry forward — and the debt that will not be discharged.
Read moreAcross fourteen years and six rooms, my work speaks the language of memory, respect, and innovation. Trained in French technique in Paris, in the Lyonnaise bouchon tradition, and in the discipline of Japanese yōshoku — and mastered in contemporary and modernist cuisine across fourteen years of Malaysian fine dining. Most recently, I have carried that body of practice into the cultural-diplomacy work through Serumpun Sarawak — a conservation study with Borneo's thirty-four indigenous communities, from which I am developing the French-Borneo cuisine platform.
France has twice knighted me; I carry both honours as obligation, not ornament.
Every kitchen I trained in. Every chef who corrected my hand. The lineage I carry forward — and the debt that will not be discharged.
Read moreThe arc — Paris, Lyon, Japan, Malaysia, and most recently Sarawak.
Read moreThe disposition behind the work — heritage, diplomacy, and soul, held as discipline.
Read moreSarawak's thirty-four indigenous communities — Mulu to Kuching to Osaka, and the field that returns me.
Read moreTaylor's Culinary Institute adjunct lectureship — sustainability, mentorship, the next generation of hands.
Read moreQuiet practice — service held below the line of the work.
Read moreTwo French-state chevaliers, UNESCO endorsement, the Malaysia firsts — institutional weight.
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Sustainability, indigenous ingredients, and zero-waste are not trends — they are values that live in every plate.


Lyonnaise tradition, Parisian discipline — the foundation room where the technique of training first met the Malaysian audience.
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The signature room — contemporary and modernist cuisine at its highest, classical training reframed for what the work asked, plate by plate, year by year.
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The Lyonnaise bouchon tradition held true to source — quenelles, andouillette, and the rituals of the table.
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Yōshoku heritage carried further through French haute technique — luxury ingredients, three rooms, the most decorated of my rooms.
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Prime cuts, considered firepower — the meat-led room, taut and direct.
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The casual room — American comfort food held with the same hand, no less considered for its place.
Discover moreKrug, Hennessy, Gaggenau, The Plan, The Macallan, Mortlach, BMW, Mepra — held with restraint, each asking a different question.
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Borneo's thirty-four indigenous communities. The conservation study endorsed by UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy — Kuching. The platform now carrying that work to Osaka and beyond — and the foundation of the French-Borneo cuisine I am building.
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