사진 확대 Chef Son Jong-won. Photo provided by Cheong Wa Dae (the Blue House), the executive office and former presidential residence of South Korea. 
사진 확대 Chef Son Jong-won with the leaders and first ladies of Korea and France. Photo provided by Cheong Wa Dae (the Blue House), the executive office and former presidential residence of South Korea.
Son Jong-won has met President Lee Jae Myung and the First Lady once again. This time, it was not on an entertainment program but as the head chef for a friendship dinner held at Cheong Wa Dae (the Blue House), the executive office and former presidential residence of South Korea.
On the 2nd at Cheong Wa Dae (the Blue House), the executive office and former presidential residence of South Korea, Son Jong-won oversaw the friendship dinner for President Lee Jae Myung and the First Lady, together with French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife.
Son Jong-won personally presented a six-course menu that combined Korean ingredients with French cooking techniques, and he personally served the main course.
For the appetizer, a “japchae tartlet” topped with rainbow-colored garnishes was served. This was followed by “samgye roulade,” a reinterpretation of Korea’s restorative chicken soup, samgyetang, as a French-style meat dish. The main course was “Hanwoo mille-feuille,” made by layering and roasting thinly sliced Hanwoo (Korean native beef cattle) striploin and serving it with abalone. For dessert, a “roasted sweet potato crêpe”—a buckwheat crêpe filled with sweet potato mousse—was presented in a traditional Korean mother-of-pearl box. Camellia mistletoe tea was also served. In addition, two carefully selected French wines and one type of Korean traditional liquor were paired as dinner wines.
Son Jong-won is the only chef in Korea to hold a Michelin star in both Korean and Western cuisine, and he rose to fame after appearing on “Culinary Class Wars 2.” He had previously met President Lee Jae Myung and the First Lady on the JTBC entertainment program “Please Take Care of My Refrigerator.”
This article has been translated by GripLabs Mingo AI.
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A friendship dinner was held at Cheong Wa Dae (the Blue House)
the executive office and former presidential residence of South Korea
featuring French President Emmanuel Macron and crêpes on the menu
with official photos released by Cheong Wa Dae (the Blue House)
the executive office and former presidential residence of South Korea.
Dining and Cooking