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Former Korean singer Lee Ji-yeon is now a chef at Heirloom Market BBQ, a restaurant in Sandy Spring, Atlanta She was recently acclaimed for her Korean barbecue pork sandwich.
Gene Lee, a food reporter at the Atlanta Journal Constitution, ranked the dish sixth in her article “International beat: The top 10 dishes of 2011” published on Dec. 28.
The reporter wrote about Lee and the co-chef of the restaurant Taylor Cody: “Taylor and Lee have stayed true to both of their backgrounds and present a ridiculously good smoked pork sandwich flavored with Lee’s ‘gochujang’ (red-pepper paste) marinade, topped with kimchi slaw and served on toasted potato buns.”
Lee was a popular teen singer who made her debut in 1987. She is credited with various hit songs such as “I Don’t Understand Love Yet” and “Wind, Please Stop.”
She abruptly moved to the United States in 1990 and enrolled in Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Atlanta to study French cuisine in 2007 to pursue a career as a chef.
She eventually joined the ACF Atlanta Junior Hot Food Team. The Atlanta Junior team won the southeast regional cook-off in 2009 and the ACF national competition in Las Vegas the same year, receiving the overall silver medal.
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