Festival Personalities
The Creative Minds of Artisan Stories: Where Art Meets Gastronomy
From globally acclaimed names to some of the region’s most exciting culinary talents, these are the personalities bringing Artisan Stories to life.
Bill Bensley
Dubbed the “King of Exotic Luxury Resorts”, Bill is a world-renowned American architect, interior designer and landscape artist, best known as the creative force behind the iconic design of InterContinental Danang.
Chef Christian Le Squer
Chef Christian is the three-Michelin-starred French chef whose culinary vision shapes Central Vietnam’s only Michelin-starred restaurant, La Maison 1888.
Chef Junichi Yoshida
Chef Yoshida is the Michelin-starred Japanese chef who brings his celebrated teppanyaki vision to Tingara, as the first chef in the world to earn a Michelin star for teppanyaki-style cuisine.
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GUEST COLLABORATORS
Madam Anh Tuyet
A culinary icon celebrated for preserving Vietnam’s traditional cuisine, she is Hanoi’s ultimate living encyclopedia of flavor — fusing seven generations of lineage to cook her legendary heritage dishes for 21 world leaders at the APEC Summit 2017 and the late Anthony Bourdain.
Chef Loïc Portalier
Chef Loïc Portalier is the Executive Chef of one-Michelin-starred Louise in Hong Kong, bringing refined French cuisine shaped by classical technique and a modern, cross-cultural touch.
Chef Cuong Nguyen
Chef Cuong leads An’s Saigon with Vietnamese home-inspired cooking that draws on seasonal ingredients and a more contemporary point of view.
Chef Hoang Tung
Chef Tung is the founder and chef of T.U.N.G Dining in Hanoi, recognised for progressive Vietnamese cuisine that brings together global techniques and local ingredients.
Ohm Supapat
Ohm is the creative force behind Bangkok’s F*nkytown, with international bar experience across the US and Thailand and current roles at Sarnies Group and Rémy Cointreau Thailand.
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INTERCONTINENTAL DANANG CULINARY TEAM
Chef Bruno Bruesch
Chef Bruno is InterContinental Danang’s Director of Culinary, with more than 30 years of experience across three continents and a philosophy grounded in seasonality, sustainability, quality and respect for tradition.
Chef Jean-Louis Angulo
Chef Jean-Louis is the Chef de Cuisine of La Maison 1888, bringing classical French training and experience from some of France’s most respected kitchens to a haute cuisine approach shaped by flavour, artistry and discipline.
Chef Tetsuhiko Isozaki
Chef Isozaki is Tingara’s Chef de Cuisine, with Michelin-starred experience in Japan and Macau and a teppanyaki approach rooted in Japanese craft and refined technique.
Chef Tsuneyoshi Taira
Chef Taira draws on more than 20 years in luxury hotels and restaurants, bringing deep expertise in traditional Japanese sushi and omakase to Tingara.
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