Kjell Kollin, Executive Chef- Banyan Tree Club & Spa Seoul
Words and shots by Paul Matthews Executive Chef Kjell Kollin at the Banyan Tree Club & Spa Seoul is a soft-spoken Swede with a giant passion for food who has spent the last twenty-five years traveling round the world and working at some of the finest restaurants and hotels in Sweden, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, and [...]
Takashima Yasunori, Sushi Chef:Namu Restaurant at the W Seoul Walkerhill
Words and shots by Shirley Hwang Sushi chef Takashima Yasunori is soft-spoken and reserved, but his recipes are anything but. Since joining the W Seoul Walkerhill in 2009, he has worked on creating a dazzling new menu full of surprises for the hotel’s contemporary Japanese restaurant Namu. His main creation is “creative sushi,” a collection [...]
MLA Recipe Contest Winner
This was the winning entry in the beef recipe contest sponsored by 10 Magazine and MLA in May. Rebekah Park received 2kg of Wagyu Beef (W150,000 value). Sensational Steak Pot Pie Recipe by Rebekah Park I started to cook meat pies since I got married to an Aussie guy who missed them so much. Sensational [...]
Meili’s Deli and Chef Meili
Words by Shirley Hwang, shot by Joe McPherson Chef Christian Meilinger boasts an impressive resume. After completing an apprenticeship in his native Austria, he worked with five different Hiltons: Vienna, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyo Bay, and finally the Millennium Seoul Hilton, where he was executive chef for four and a half years. He then opened [...]
Submit Beef Recipe to Win W150,000 in Wagyu
To enter this contest, submit a beef recipe along with a picture by May 31st to gs@10magazine.asia. MLA Korea will select the best recipe from the submissions and send the winner 2kg of chilled wagyu beef (a W150,000 value).
Wonseok Shin, Head Chef at Hotel Novotel Daegu City Center
When Wonseok Shin was a teenager, he was bitten by the cooking bug. In high school he loved cooking Western foods such as pasta and steak. Then he got involved in French literature, which led to his life’s passion in French cuisine. He journeyed to Paris and enrolled in Le Cordon Bleu academy, learning French [...]
Wonseok Shin’s Pork Blanquette in Doenjang Cream Sauce
Here’s a little piece of impressive fusion cuisine from our featured chef from “In the Kitchen”, Won-seok Shin.
Nick Flynn, Executive Chef: InterContinental Hotel Seoul
Glancing at the vast cityscape outside the 51st-story window of Marco Polo restaurant in the COEX tower, Executive Chef Nick Flynn of the Intercontinental Seoul, thinks about the untapped potential of Korea’s restaurant scene. “You have the old chefs, who make sure everything is authentic. Then you have these new chefs, who are willing to [...]
Lugo, Executive Chef Mark Battle
Lifehacking means finding clever ways to function more efficiently in life. When a chef does it, is it “restaurant hacking”? Lugo, the Seoul baby of a well-known New York City enterprise of the same name, strives for two challenging goals at once—keeping true to its authenticity while sourcing ingredients as locally as possible. To keep [...]
Preserving the Traditional Flavors of Morocco: Chef Rhiti Mostafa
Think about it. Cooking at the ambassadorial level has unfathomable stress. State dinners demand the apex of protocol and etiquette. You must not only know all aspects of your country’s traditional and regional cuisines from stocks to pastries, but you must also be well-versed in international foods. This is the background of Rhiti Mostafa, who [...]



