In the latest episode of Life in Food with Laura Price, I talk to Pichaya Soontornyanakij, otherwise known as Chef Pam, about Food and Heritage and the story behind her award-winning restaurant Potong. We delve into family history, Thai-Chinese food culture and the ancestral recipes that inspired some of her dishes at Potong in Bangkok's Chinatown. We also discuss Chef Pam's experience of becoming a first-time mother while renovating a century-old building to open a restaurant and balancing parenthood with work. In the run-up to Chinese or Lunar New Year, we also celebrate the Year of the Snake, and find out about Chef Pam's brand new restaurant, Khao San Sek.

• Follow Chef Pam on Instagram @chef.pam.
• Visit Potong's website.
• Visit Khao San Sek's website.
• Read my interview with Chef Pam for The World's 50 Best Restaurants.

About the host: Laura Price is a multilingual journalist who travels the world writing about restaurants. Her first novel, Single Bald Female, was inspired by her experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer at 29. A novelist by day and a food writer by night, Laura combines her two passions into this podcast, telling powerful stories of survival and healing in a language that everyone understands – food.

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• Buy Single Bald Female.
• Visit Laura's website.
• Read Laura's Substack newsletter, Doughnuts for Breakfast.
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Life in Food is hosted, produced and edited by Laura Price.

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