{"id":59290,"date":"2026-06-09T12:50:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T04:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=59290"},"modified":"2026-06-09T12:50:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T04:50:02","slug":"meet-the-french-chinese-chef-now-in-charge-of-michelin-starred-racines-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=59290","title":{"rendered":"Meet the French-Chinese chef now in charge of Michelin-starred Racines in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/p>\n

\n

On the surface, it seems a most unlikely abdication and ascension.<\/p>\n

After building Hong Kong\u2019s highly successful Michelin-star restaurant Racines from scratch, chef Romain Dupeyre<\/span> decided to uproot to Phuket, Thailand, handing over his culinary reins to an orange-haired, baby-faced Chinese chef barely in his thirties.<\/div>\n
Leung Chun-wah, however, is no novice. He was born in Strasbourg, France, where his Hong Kong \u00e9migr\u00e9 parents ran a Chinese restaurant, and he learned the culinary ropes in the esteemed kitchens of Joel Robuchon<\/span> in Monte Carlo and Anne-Sophie Pic\u2019s<\/span> fine dining palaces in Lausanne, Valence and Paris.<\/div>\n
In 2023, he returned to the home city of his family to help open Cristal Room by Anne-Sophie Pic<\/span> in Central\u2019s glittering Gloucester Tower. At the same time, he reacquainted himself with a chef who had been something of a workplace big brother.<\/div>\n

\u201cRomain and I met around 12 years ago, at restaurant Le Figuier de Saint-Esprit, in the south of France,\u201d Leung recalls. \u201cHe was taking his first sous chef position, and I was just coming for my apprenticeship training. We worked together for one year. I arrived in Hong Kong in January 2023. I knew he just opened this place, so I contacted him to just keep in touch.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n
\"Leung<\/div>
Leung stands outside Racines, which gained Michelin-star status in 2024. Photo: Sun Yeung<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

From Cristal Room to Racines<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n


\n


\n
Read Full Article At Source <\/a>
\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the surface, it seems a most unlikely abdication and ascension. After building Hong Kong\u2019s highly successful Michelin-star restaurant Racines from scratch, chef Romain Dupeyre…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[8196,809,24440,3569,5231,272,21652,24441],"class_list":["post-59290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-charge","tag-chef","tag-frenchchinese","tag-hong","tag-kong","tag-meet","tag-michelinstarred","tag-racines","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}