Seng Sothea

Seng Sothea (; born in 1984 in Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia) is a Cambodian chef and restaurateur. Owner of Palate Angkor, Hot Stone Café, Mahob, Lava and Lum Orng restaurants.

Biography Seng Sothea was born in Kampong Cham Province in a family of poor rice farmers. At the age of 10, he started helping his family in the kitchen with cooking and food preservation. In 1999 they moved to Siem Reap where Sothea started working as a waiter at the age of 15. A year later he got a job at the Sofitel Angkor Phokeethra as a kitchen hand and fourth restaurant Lava serving Cambodian, Chinese and other Asian cuisine, as well as fusion cuisine. On 1 June 2019, in outer Siem Reap Sothea opened Lum Orng, Cambodia's first farm-to-table restaurant. In 2021 Lum Orng was one of three restaurants in Cambodia to be included in the Asia's 50 Best Restaurants' "Essence of Asia" list.