Thipsamai Explained

Current-Owner:	Sikarachat Baisamut
Thipsamai
Established:	1966

Thipsamai is a restaurant on Maha Chai Road in Samran Rat, Bangkok, Thailand.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} The restaurant is notable for its Pad Thai, using sun dried sen chan noodles from Chantaburi Province and a homemade prawn oil.^{[5] [6]} It opened in the 1950s as a street stall and subsequently moved into a physical storefront in 1966.^[7] Owned by Sikarachat Baisamut, Thipsamai was named for his mother, Samai Baisamut, who opened the stall in Bangkok after selling pad thai with her mother on a boat on Phasi Charoen Canal in Samut Sakhon Province.^[8]

References

1. Web site: Is this Thailand’s best pad Thai? . 2024-09-30 . www.bbc.com . en-GB.
2. Web site: Here's where Asia's best female chef goes for pad Thai in Bangkok . 2024-09-30 . www.bbc.com . en-GB.
3. Web site: How Thai is pad Thai? . 2024-09-30 . SBS Food . en.
4. Web site: Thipsamai Phad Thai (Pratuphee) . Michelin Guide.
5. Web site: Rojanaphruk . Pravit . 2017-12-06 . Star for Street Food Joint As Michelin Bangkok Revealed . Khao Sod.
6. Web site: 2008-11-06 . อร่อยมื้อดึกย่านประตูผี . Delicious late-night supper at Pratu Phi quarter . Sanook . th.
7. News: Hubbell . Diana . 2015-02-15 . The foodie traveller … finds the perfect pad thai in Bangkok . 2024-09-30 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
8. Web site: Thip Samai Phad Thai, Phra Nakhon, Bangkok, Thailand - Street Food Review . 2024-09-30 . Condé Nast Traveler . en-US.