Schooled in classic French cooking, the young Stroobant was already a well-established chef who had trained under maestros like Pierre Romayer from three-starred Maison de Bouche and Francis Dernouchamp from two-starred l’Hostellerie Saint-Roch. At 23, he opened his first restaurant in his hometown of Liege, Belgium, after which he did stints in Australia and the US.
Not everyone can boast about staying married for 22 years, let alone run a flourishing F&B empire together, with two Michelin-starred restaurants to boot. But power couple Emmanuel Stroobant, 54, and his wife Edina Hong, 50, show that even with kids in tow, the sky’s the limit.
To discover the secret to their success, we should start from the moment they met in May 1998 on an arranged double date in Kuala Lumpur, where Belgian-born Stroobant was based.
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