OITOM Reserve
OITOM's dining room in Kota Kinabalu — a curved oak pass beneath a dark ceiling, with a floor-to-ceiling wine wall behind the tables.

Welcome to
OITOM

Discover New Sabah Cuisine at OITOM, Kota Kinabalu. Chef Raphael Lee presents two curated tasting menus inspired by the ingredients, traditions, and flavours of Sabah’s farms, forests, and seas. Reservations are recommended, with walk-ins welcome subject to availability.

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“OITOM” means black in the Kadazan-Dusun language — our interpretation of tradition on a plate, where Sabah’s heritage, indigenous ingredients, and culinary stories come together through New Sabah Cuisine.
OITOM, on the name
A chef in glasses and a face mask leans over a steaming pan at OITOM's open kitchen pass, a second cook working behind him.

Indigenous tradition, contemporary technique

New Sabah Cuisine takes the region's culinary heritage and renders it with contemporary technique. The produce is harvested from the foot of Mount Kinabalu, the seafood is sustainable and comes from the waters of Borneo, and the rarer ingredients, buah kulim and Kundasang highland produce among them, are championed by chef-owner Raphael Lee, who is part Kadazan.

Everything is sourced within Sabah's micro-seasons, in direct partnership with the region's farmers, fishers and artisans. A few days at most separate harvest from plate.

Chef
Raphael Lee, part Kadazan
Menu
Introduction and Heritage, two fixed tasting menus
Sourcing
Sabah farms, forests & seas, by micro-season
OITOM's dining room: a pale oak island under soft downlights, in front of a wall of dark panels pierced with hundreds of points of light, with round oak tables and chairs either side.

As featured in

  • Secret Retreats
  • DestinAsian
  • The Star
  • Options · The Edge
  • Sabah Tourism Board
  • Borneo360
  • The Yum List
  • Going Places
Malaysia Tatler Dining Guide mark Featured in the Malaysia Tatler Dining Guide

The table is ready when you are

Reserve through UMAI, or write to us directly on WhatsApp. Every ingredient is prepared fresh for that day's menu, so please call ahead if you plan to walk in.

Reserve a table WhatsApp Call +60 14-329 9375