Pailin Chongchitnant
Pailin “Pai” Chongchitnant is a Vancouver-based Thai chef, cookbook author and the creator of Hot Thai Kitchen, teaching home cooks the recipes, ingredients and cultural context of Thai food.
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Known for
- Hot Thai Kitchen: The 10th Anniversary Edition2026 · Author
Cookbook - Sabai: 100 Simple Thai Recipes for Any Day of the Week2023 · Author
Cookbook - Hot Thai Kitchen2016 · Debut cookbook
Cookbook - Sabai Talk Podcast2024 · Co-host with Hong Thaimee
Podcast - Gusto TVOne World Kitchen: Popular Thai Dishes2015 · Host, Thai cuisine
Overview
- Also known as
- Pai
- From
- Southern Thailand
- Based in
- Vancouver, Canada
- Training
- University of British Columbia; Le Cordon Bleu, San Francisco
- Started
- Hot Thai Kitchen on YouTube in 2009
- Known for
- Teaching Thai cooking through recipes, technique and cultural context
Mini bio
How it started.
Pai grew up in southern Thailand with cooking woven into everyday life. She studied nutritional sciences at the University of British Columbia, then trained at Le Cordon Bleu in San Francisco and worked in professional kitchens.
Finding her audience.
In 2009, she started Hot Thai Kitchen on YouTube to share the Thai food she knew from home. What began as a hobby alongside restaurant work gradually became her full-time teaching career. Her friend Adam became the cameraman, and her brother Art joined as editor and art director.
Beyond the channel.
Pai brought Thai cooking to Gusto TV’s One World Kitchen in 2015. Her first cookbook, Hot Thai Kitchen, followed in 2016 and won a silver Taste Canada award. Sabai arrived in 2023 with a focus on simpler everyday cooking. In 2024, she joined chef Hong Thaimee to co-host Sabai Talk, a podcast about Thai food and culture.
Still learning, still teaching.
For the 2026 anniversary edition of Hot Thai Kitchen, Pai revisited techniques that had changed over a decade of cooking and added a House Specials chapter. In her Scout interview, she described becoming more practical and efficient after becoming a parent.
Creditschronological, newest first
Books
Screen and audio
- 2024Sabai Talk PodcastCo-host with Hong Thaimee
- 2015One World KitchenHost, Thai cuisine
- 2009Hot Thai Kitchen / Pailin’s KitchenCreator and host
Awards
Quotes
I wanted to show the world the Thai food that I grew up eating, and how they can make it at home.Pailin Chongchitnant, Hot Thai Kitchen, About Me
Explaining why she started her YouTube show. Source: https://hot-thai-kitchen.com/about/
Trivia
- Her original first video taught tom yum goong. She says it is now private because she finds it embarrassing.
- Chef McDang’s The Principles of Thai Cookery helped shape her understanding of Thai cuisine and her teaching style.
- Her original Hot Thai Chicken recipe went viral. She told Scout she could imagine selling it from a food truck after retiring from teaching.
- Sabai Talk began with an episode about pad thai, followed by one about tom yum.
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