Tap Supasit Kokpol

The Path

Today, Tap Supasit Kokpol is chef and owner of Coda Bangkok and chef of JTAP (since 2025). The career reads as a study in control rather than display: a chef shaping a clear language for Contemporary Thai cuisine and keeping the fundamentals in frame. At Coda Bangkok, that shows in the pacing of the tasting menu, where each course is set up to register not only as flavor, but as a point of contact with memory, expectation, and contrast. With JTAP added in 2025, the same approach carries into a second setting without losing its focus.

The Work Today

At Coda, the work is Contemporary Thai food presented with sincerity. That is the practical center of Tap Supasit Kokpol’s cooking: flavor, ingredients, and texture doing the main work without leaning on excess. The plates are composed and deliberate, but they avoid overworking the idea. The aim is not to obscure Thai flavor, but to make it legible again in a different form.

Signature

CP chavi is one of Tap Supasit Kokpol’s signature dishes. In a tasting-menu context, a signature dish has to carry more than recognition; it has to hold the room and mark the kitchen’s point of view. CP chavi does that work as part of Coda’s broader language, giving the menu a fixed reference point while keeping the restaurant’s Thai frame intact.

In Their Words “Hello, my name is Tap Supasit Kokpol. I am the chef and owner at Coda. I want to present Contemporary Thai food with sincerity, in terms of flavor, ingredients, and texture.” “I want to create new experiences for guests, to see what presenting Thai food in another form will be like.” Read together, those lines set out the terms of the kitchen plainly. The goal is not novelty as an end point, but a different presentation of Thai food that still relies on the basic checks of the craft: flavor, ingredients, texture, and how they land on the table.

Acclaim

The recognition here comes through authorship and consistency: a tasting-menu format, and a stated commitment to sincerity in flavor, ingredients, and texture. For Tap Supasit Kokpol, the point of distinction is the coherence of Coda Bangkok, and the way that same disciplined approach extends into JTAP (since 2025).