How can it be that a very young woman from Korea becomes the executive chef of an “almost Italian” restaurant under the great French chef, and in China? Everything starts with common family roots. It is renown that in Asia family ties are more resistant than bamboo fibres: “I had been working for 3 years as sous chef at Jean Georges’s Spice Market in NewYork, and because my sister was moving from Taiwan, where she was working, to Hong Kong, I thought that the moment had come for me to explore my Asian roots once again”. So Yoon first left the Big Apple to spend a short time at the Spice Market in London, working as sous executive chef at the W Hotel in Leicester Square, and then moved to New York to work on the Mercato project in Shanghai.