Thai caviar? Farm produces delicacy in tropical climate

Chef Thitid Tassanakajohn making a dish using caviar from Thai Sturgeon Farm at the Lahnyai Nusara restaurant in Bangkok. - AFP

BANGKOK (AFP): At his upmarket Bangkok restaurant, Michelin-starred chef Thitid "Ton" Tassanakajohn spoons black caviar onto a plate, adding the newly affordable Thailand-made delicacy to his reinterpreted traditional family recipes.

The luxury food, better associated with chilly northern nations, is breaking into the South-East Asian country's fine-dining scene, with the 37-year-old celebrity cook able to economically serve the roe thanks to an innovative farm outside the capital.