About CHEF NAK

Cambodian Cuisine, Culture & Hospitality

CHEF NAK is a Cambodian culinary and cultural brand creating exceptional experiences that connect guests to Cambodia through food, stories, heritage, and heartfelt hospitality.

Chef Nak at Master Chef Awards 2024 in Singapore

Meet Chef Nak

Chef Nak, born Rotanak Ros, is a Cambodian chef, author, researcher, and cultural advocate dedicated to preserving, elevating, and sharing Cambodia’s culinary heritage.

Her work is rooted in years of learning from Cambodian families, elders, home cooks, ingredients, traditions, and regional foodways. Through research, cookbooks, culinary experiences, education, and cultural storytelling, she works to ensure that Cambodian food knowledge is not only preserved, but understood, practiced, and carried forward.

For Chef Nak, food is more than nourishment. It carries memory, identity, knowledge, hospitality, and a sense of place.

Our Journey

What began with Chef Nak’s personal journey has grown into a wider Cambodian culinary and cultural brand.
Today, Chef Nak brings together culinary research, publishing, private dining, immersive cooking, cultural stays, education, media, events, and cultural exchange—all guided by the same purpose: to help Cambodian cuisine remain living, respected, relevant, and proudly shared with the world.
Experiences may be personally hosted by Chef Nak or led by Chef Nak-trained chefs and cultural hosts, allowing the work to grow while remaining rooted in her direction, standards, and philosophy.
Chef Nak exists to preserve, elevate, and share Cambodia’s living culinary heritage—from everyday home cooking and regional traditions to refined royal cuisine.
We believe food carries culture, memory, identity, and knowledge. By documenting, practicing, teaching, and sharing Cambodian cuisine, we aim to help these traditions remain understood, respected, and alive for future generations.
We see Cambodian cuisine as a living cultural practice—not a museum artifact.
Our work begins with respect for heritage and traditional knowledge. We research with care, cook with memory, learn from people and place, and allow traditions to continue evolving thoughtfully.
Preserve by practicing. Develop by understanding. Share with meaning.
NHUM — Recipes from a Cambodian Home Kitchen
A collection rooted in everyday Cambodian home cooking, preserving recipes, flavors, and stories from family kitchens.
SAOY — Royal Cambodian Home Cuisine
A celebration of Cambodia’s refined royal home-cooking tradition and the culinary knowledge carried through generations.
Chef Nak’s work has received international recognition through books, media, culinary experiences, and cultural collaborations, helping bring greater global attention to Cambodian cuisine and its living heritage.
Whether you join us for an evening, a cooking experience, or a deeper stay, we welcome you into a world shaped by Cambodian food, stories, heritage, and hospitality.
Come not only to taste Cambodia, but to understand something of the people, places, memories, and traditions carried through its cuisine.