IN its early stages, celebrated chef Darren Chin’s Thai venture Gai began life as a delivery-only service during the Covid-19 pandemic when the intrepid chef – who owns a string of restaurants, including the one Michelin-starred DC by Darren Chin – realised the potential to market and sell his Thai in-laws’s home-cooked meals (his parents-in-law lived with him at the time).
In 2022, that fledgling enterprise flew the roost, opening shop in a small space in Taman Tun Dr Ismail, Kuala Lumpur. The business was run almost entirely by Chin’s Thai wife Pachsita Kitikornchalowemwong, better known as Nana, as he wanted to give her something to call her own.
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