The Confucius Of Fusion Cuisine

Canada’s culinary cognoscente, Susur Lee, the ponytailed, rock star super chef, who inflamed North America’s passion for fusion cuisine, arrives in Kuala Lumpur this month for seven nights of gastronomic excellence as part of Hennessy X.O’s Appreciation Grows series.

Rudyard Kipling might have penned the immortal words, “Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet”, in his famous set of martial songs and poems titled Barrack- Room Ballads, but it’s probably because he was yet to hear of Susur Lee. Global gourmets, though, would, at once, instantly recognise the name as the man who put fusion cuisine on the world map. Wary of the term, Lee is known to refer to it as the ‘F-word’ but it’s clear it is his cooking which put him and, indeed, Toronto, on the world food map.

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