From passion and love of cooking to Michelin Star, The World’s Best Female Chef and Culinary Pioneers

The World’s Best Female Chef 2025 and Asia’s Best Female Chef 2024, Chef “Pam”, Pichaya Soontornyanakij, has opened a string of successful restaurants and bar. Chef Pam is the first ever Asian and Thai Female Chef to receive The World’s Best Female Chef status, together she also earned Michelin Star and “Opening of the Year” awards from the Michelin Guide in the same year. She is also the first and only Thai female chef who achieved status of 3 knives from the World Best Chef Award. Her restaurant POTONG is also voted #1 in Bangkok by TOP25 Bangkok Restaurants.

Chef Pam has become a critically acclaimed chef and global television personality (Top Chef Thailand, Top Chef Arab World, World Cook Competition, Iron Chef, Maverick Academy, and many more) and is one of the most recognized faces in culinary of Asia today.