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EPISODE · Oct 2, 2025 · 19 MIN

Business Daily meets: Thailand's Chef Pam

from Business Daily · host BBC World Service

Thailand’s Pichaya Soontornyanakij, widely known as Chef Pam, was this year named the best female chef in the world by a panel of more than 1,000 gastronomists assembled by 50 Best, a food and drink sector brand. She’s the first Asian woman to win that award. Gideon Long meets her at her Michelin-starred restaurant in Bangkok, in a building which has deep personal meaning for her and which she and her family have lovingly restored. She takes him on a tour of the gastronomic delights of Bangkok’s Chinatown and tells him about her Thai-Chinese heritage and the challenges of the restaurant business. If you'd like to get in touch with the programme, our email address is [email protected] and produced by Gideon Long (Image: Thai chef Pichaya Soontornyanakij at her restaurant in Bangkok.)

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