Michelin Guide x Lexus: Braving The Kitchen With Chef Sun Kim of Meta Restaurant

About: In partnership with luxury automobile company Lexus, this branded content project features chef Sun Kim of a one-Michelin-starred contemporary Korean restaurant, Meta. Like how the brand espouses the concept of brave design, the Korean born chef makes brave choices inside and outside of the kitchen.

With a melange of flavours from Chinese, French and Korean cuisines, Meta pushes the boundaries of flavour combinations. A serial experimenter in the kitchen, Sun says: “Brave design is doing something that you’ve never done before. It is all about taking a big risk. If you don’t take risks and stay where you are comfortable, you don’t know your future.”

Sun treads the fine balance of presenting a globetrotting cuisine while highlighting his Korean heritage at Meta but this direction hasn’t always been this clear to him. When he was roped in to start Meta in 2015, Sun, who had worked at the three-Michelin-starred Japanese-European restaurant Waku Ghin took a leap of faith to work with an entirely new kitchen team, on top of trying to nail down the culinary direction of the restaurant.

Not surprisingly, Sun says that starting Meta was “the biggest risk that I have taken in my career”. He says with candor: “I used to work for a big chef at one of the best restaurants in the world. When I came out, I was no one and had to start from the beginning.”

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