Alma Welcomes Seasoned Chef to Senior Kitchen Ranks
Cam Ranh, Vietnam, September 28, 2024 / TRAVELINDEX / A hospitality professional with more than a decade’s experience working for some of the world’s most acclaimed hotel brands and restaurants has been appointed to a senior culinary position at Alma Resort Cam Ranh.
Equipped with 11 years’ experience cooking a variety of cuisines, South Korean-born Taehoon Lee has been appointed 30-hectare Alma’s 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, which is home to a variety of Vietnamese and international dining outlets, as well as the resort’s in-room menus.
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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About Alma
Situated on Vietnam’s emerging Cam Ranh peninsula fronting Long Beach, Alma resort commands some 30 hectares of inspiring ground. Emblematic of Vietnam’s maturation as a destination, the bold and spacious integrated resort offers 580 oversized suites and pavilions that all afford sweeping vistas of the ocean, including contemporary three-bedroom oceanfront pavilions each totalling 224sqm with a living room, four bathrooms and a private pool. Alma features a broad spectrum of restaurants helmed by top chefs, a food court with an array of local and international cuisine, as well as a sports bar, pool bar and beach bar. Other highlights include 12 swimming pools cascading down to the beach and a waterpark with a lazy river, slides, wave pool and kids pool. Other highlights include a 13-treatment room spa, 75-seat cinema, convention centre, amphitheater, science museum, gymnasium and yoga room, 18-hole mini golf course, a youth centre with virtual reality games, a kid’s club, water sports centre, onsite sustainable farm, a golf simulator and even an ‘Alma Mart’ mini supermarket.
