Heirs continue food legacy amid loss

Familiar flavours live on: Jirintat and Adulwitch, son and daughter of Chanchai, working at their late father’s food stall in Bangkok’s Chinatown. — Reuters

Each morning, Adulwitch Tangsupmanee brings a cart of crispy pork belly to a run-down cinema in Bangkok’s Chinatown and sets up the same street-food stall his internationally renowned father ran for nearly 50 years before dying of Covid-19 in July.

While aromatic pork broth simmers, Adulwitch carefully places a framed picture of his late father, Chanchai, on top of the stall’s window display – adorned with Michelin guide accolades from 2018 to 2021.