Odette Chef Rethinks Korean Cuisine With a New Concept in Hong Kong

The newly opened left, which is stuck on the fifth floor of a building on Lyndhurst Terrace, offers a refreshing look at the Korean cuisine, which is based on traditions but elegantly wearing a French technique.

This is largely due to the creative energy of the chief chef Gwanju Kim, the chief chef of the three-star Odette of Singapore’s three-michelin, and the only star L’Amant Secret of Seoul. Although Chief Kim’s journey began in the French kitchens, his heart has always been drawn to the richness of Korean products. “We used many Japanese materials and techniques in Odette, or he says. “And I was jealous of it because Korea also has very amazing materials.”

After returning to Seoul, he began to rethink Korean cuisine and finally landed to Hong Kong to implement his vision. The aim is to emphasize the materials that the Koreans often accept often accept and introduce them to a global audience. At the beginning of our dinner, the chef Kim presented a vegetable basket that will take part in our meals and explain its resources and traditional Korean kitchen roles. Each course included a comprehensive overview of our server and a beautiful table card that offered an understanding background to the core content in the game.

For this review, a Korean domestic and new Hong Kong transplant, about a week after the opening we visited the left. We order five kinds of lunch sets and an add -on for starting. Our total invoice for two came to $ 1,263 hk, including foamy water and service.

Vibe: The interior of the left is warm and inviting with worldly brown tiles, soft circular lighting and daylight motif that decorates the walls. Two -person cabins provide a perfect environment for a conversation, while a few larger tables can host groups. It hosts a separate area near the open kitchen, monthly meal lessons and group reservations and adds a feeling of community to the refined food experience.

Can you have a meeting here? Definitely. But this is a good meal, can be shared better with your loved ones.

Who is with you: It was still quiet when we visited a lunch on weekdays. But a few paintings around us seemed to have couples and friends.

What will we order again:

Stella: My favorites, mushrooms and pine nuts on the top of the creamy steamed eggs and a meal recommended by our server: a classic Beurre Blanc sauce with two types of Korean seaweed with a jeju abalone. A nostalgic moment was served next to the Grilled Pig Jowl, a modest dinner, a modest dinner, who instantly sent me back to my childhood in Seoul, with a decent radish rice dinner. The chef’s most common components often keep the deepest meaning of a wise head shaking. I want to go back to dinner, especially with the former Mingles and Hansik Gooo’s sweet chef Kylie Yang, its own modern Korean ability brings its ability to the last course with two inspired desserts: one made with white rice and the other with barley.

Ray: On the left, none of the usual Korean fee I am used to – Bibimbap, Korean Barbecue or Ginseng Chicken Soup – in the menu. This experience helped expand my appreciation for the palate and other Korean staples. The stands in my mind were Saewoo-Jang, the main course of the above-mentioned sweet dessert, which includes the flavors of Mubap and barley, chocolate and tonka beans mentioned above. I would definitely return for dinner, or better, a food lesson.

You need to know: Left 8 Lyndhurst Terrace’s fifth floor. There is no sign outside, so check the floor knee at the entrance of the building. Restaurant lunch lunch and dinner between 18:00-22: 00 hours for both lunch and dinner only set menus are offered. Bookings that can be made through Google maps or directly on the website of the restaurant are recommended. -Stella ko and raymond schillinger

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