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    Owner & Head Chef

    Pichaya "Pam" Soontornyanakij

    Owner & Head Chef, Potong

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    2 winners

    World's 50 Best logoWorld's 50 BestWinnerBest Female Chef2025World's 50 Best logoWorld's 50 BestWinnerBest Female Chef2024
    Portrait of Pichaya "Pam" Soontornyanakij

    Portrait of Pichaya "Pam" Soontornyanakij

    i. Biography

    Pichaya 'Pam' Soontornyanakij is the owner and head chef of Potong, a Michelin-starred Thai-Chinese fine-dining restaurant in Bangkok's Chinatown, opened in 2021 in her family's 120-year-old historic building. Born, she studied communication arts at Chulalongkorn University before training at Le Cordon Bleu Dusit and the Culinary Institute of America, and staging at Jean-Georges in New York. Potong debuted at No.35 on Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants, ranked No.13 on The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2025, and she became Asia’s Best Female Chef 2024 and the first Asian recipient of The World’s Best Female Chef 2025.

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