Chef

Chi Kwun Choi

Discipline: Chef
Based in: Málaga, Spain
Venue: Blossom · Restaurant

i. Biography

From Hong Kong, Chi Kwun Choi works with a perspective shaped by Hong Kong and Beijing, two cities where Chinese cuisine moves with different pressures, tempos, and expectations. That dual frame shows up in the food at Blossom: urban energy checked by discipline, and heritage handled as a living practice rather than a fixed script. The result is cooking that stays alert to changing tastes without losing its footing in Chinese tradition.

The Path

Since 2009, Chi Kwun Choi has served as executive chef of Blossom, and that long tenure has given the restaurant a consistent register. The craft here is continuity: holding a kitchen voice over time while drawing on a background rooted in Hong Kong and informed by the broader rhythm of Chinese dining culture. What emerges is less about gesture than about sustained control, where experience and memory remain in active use.

The Work Today

Hong Kong and Beijing continue to shape the way Chi Kwun Choi thinks about flavor, pace, and presentation. Those two food cultures give the work a layered position: personal in origin, but readable within a wider Chinese dining context. At Blossom, that means translating familiar traditions through a contemporary lens without severing them from their source. Taste, in this approach, is treated as something in motion rather than something fixed. Chi Kwun Choi’s point of view, anchored in Hong Kong and Beijing, allows for movement between texture, technique, and balance without losing clarity. That connection to place and memory gives the work at Blossom its shape.

Acclaim

Epicurean Award for Best Chinese Restaurant in Las Vegas sits among Chi's honors, and Blossom also received the Epicurean Award for Best Chinese Restaurant in Las Vegas. The recognition places the restaurant within Las Vegas' dining field at a level that has been publicly acknowledged, and it reflects the standard associated with Chi’s leadership.

Profile updated August 2026

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