BANGKOK -- Asia's newest celebrity chef does not concoct outlandish 12-course tasting menus at the hippest hotel in Tokyo, Singapore or Hong Kong. Instead, she cultivates cabbage, mushrooms and roots at a remote monastery in South Korea, where she has lived for nearly half a century, serving her celebrated temple cuisine mainly to monks.
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Icon Award winner Jeong Kwan shows off fresh produce she grows in her gardens at Baekyangsa Temple in South Korea. (Courtesy of Davin Park)
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