Culinary Regeneration Lab - Rebuilding Island Food Systems

The Regenerative Travel × Song Saa Culinary Regeneration Lab is a pioneering gastronomic residency that explores how food can actively regenerate island ecosystems.

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Hosted at Song Saa Private Island, this ten-day pilot brings together visionary chefs, Cambodian culinary collaborators, fishers, farmers, and conservation teams to work within a living island system — where marine health, seasonality, livelihoods, and hospitality are inseparable.

Rather than a traditional chef residency, the Lab is designed as a hands-on experimentation platform. Each chef develops a Living Contribution — a regenerative practice that remains embedded in Song Saa’s operations long after the residency ends, from low-impact sourcing and zero-waste preservation to staff training and seasonal menu frameworks.

The residency culminates on 26 June with The Living Systems Dinner — a collaborative dining experience that shares not only flavours, but insights, stories, and the real systems behind the food. Guests are invited to experience a deeper relationship with place — and to leave changed, not just impressed.

_{The Culinary Regeneration Lab is not about what is cooked for ten days — but about what changes for the next ten years.}

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There will also be plenty of time to enjoy our wild wellbeing offering, take part in daily fitness sessions and connect with the inspiring ecosystem we call home – as well as to relax beside your private plunge pool.