Jung Ji-sun’s Sweet Honey Plans Its First Overseas Flagship in Taipei

Jung Ji-sun is taking Sweet Honey beyond Seoul. The Korean-Chinese restaurant she built under the Chinese name 甜蜜蜜 (Tianmimi in Korean marketing) is preparing its first overseas room in Taipei’s Zhongshan District, with Taiwanese press pointing to an August 2026 open. The plan is a flagship of more than 100 ping, closer to a full dining room than a tiny dim sum counter.

International diners mostly met Jung through Netflix’s Culinary Class Wars, where her sugar-pull technique and Cantonese-leaning plates earned her the “dim sum queen” tag in Korean food media. At home she already runs busy Sweet Honey rooms in Hongdae and Gangnam. Taipei is the first time the brand is copying that model outside Korea.

Local reporting says a Taiwan-Korea team started planning in March, finished the Zhongshan fit-out in June, and spent July on a month of kitchen and service training led by the Korean side. The pitch is to keep Sweet Honey’s standards intact: Korean-Chinese cooking with modern plating, plus handmade dim sum that cares about shape as much as seasoning. Digital ordering is planned so floor staff can spend more time at the table.

A street address and exact opening day have not been locked in public briefings yet. Treat August and Zhongshan as the working target, and check brand channels before you book a trip around the debut.

In Seoul, guests chase mala cream shrimp, a sweet-heat sauce dish that rode Class Wars attention into reservation chaos, along with snowflake scorched-rice soup and a dim sum board that can run to seafood dumplings, basil siu mai, and cheung fun. Whether Taipei clones that board one-for-one is still soft. Jung has said, after filming a Taiwan food show, that she is thinking about folding local flavors into the menu, including possible Taiwan-only noodle plates.

For now the useful story is simpler: a Class Wars chef is planting her first foreign Sweet Honey in one of Taipei’s busiest dining corridors, with a Korean kitchen transfer already underway and an August window on the calendar. If the Hongdae and Gangnam rooms are any guide, reservations will matter the week the doors open.