Le Moût, one of Taiwan’s first French haute-cuisine restaurants, blazed a trail in the fine dining scene for an entire decade. Before it closed down in 2018, it ranked among the 50 Best Restaurants in Asia for four consecutive years, and earned Chef Lan Shu Chen the mantle of Asia’s Best Female Chef in 2014.

Chen started her culinary journey with her first love, pastry, at Le Cordon Bleu but finished with cuisine at Ferrandi. She entered the kitchens of several renowned restaurants, including Les Ambassadeurs at the Hotel de Crillon in Paris, and French Laundry with Thomas Keller in Napa Valley. These diverse experiences influenced her own definition of French cuisine and led her to return to Taiwan to open her first restaurant in 2008. Le Moût introduced a different style of cooking based on classic French techniques using local ingredients, with flavors that were often inspired by the chef's memories of cooking with her mother and grandmother.

The spirit of Le Moût lives in Le Côté LM, which opened in the same spot two years later, a more casual affair serving French bistro food. In 2022, the restaurant ranked 99th in the 50 Best Asian Restaurants list. In May of the same year, Lan Shu Chen launched her new restaurant, Gubami, at the Xinyi District and won her second 500 Taiwan Flavor Re-evolution Award. She is also menu designer and cooking consultant at French restaurant Le Beaujour.