Backpacker to restaurateur: Korean-Australian chef Sammy Jeon reflects on his food journey

Renowned Korean Australian chef Sammy Jeon started out as a backpacker working at a winery in regional NSW, going on to establish a total of eight restaurants across the state.

To mark Lunar New Year, Jeon is shining a light on the unique ways Koreans celebrate Seollal, including the country’s culinary traditions from tteokguk, a symbolic rice cake soup, to the charye-sang, a ceremonial table of symbolic dishes to honour one’s ancestors.

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