Portrait of Ian Kittichai
i. Biography
Chef and founding partner at Issaya Siamese Club in Bangkok, Thailand, Ian Kittichai works in a register shaped by Thai flavor, hotel discipline, international restaurant authorship, television, pastry, street-food advocacy, and contemporary hospitality. His through-line is application: cooking carried from his home city to London, Sydney, Singapore, New York, New York, and back again without making Thai flavor a secondary reference.
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Where They Are Now
Contemporary Thai restaurant language is the central work at Issaya Siamese Club in Bangkok, Thailand, where Kittichai is chef and founding partner. The restaurant functions as one of his clearest platforms for Thai cooking that is composed and aromatic while still tied to heritage, with flavor carrying the argument rather than presentation alone. Concept-building is part of the same trade when the work has to survive outside one menu cycle.
Kittichai is chef-owner of Cuisine Concept in Bangkok, Thailand, and owner of Khum Hom, a Thai restaurant in the Mövenpick BDMS Wellness Resort Bangkok. “I never want to stop learning.” Ian has said.
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Gaeng-Som with mantis shrimp is the named sign
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