Top Chef Thailand Explained

Genre:	Reality competition Cooking show
Country:	Thailand
Language:	Thai
Num Seasons:	4
Num Episodes:	13
Runtime:	90 minutes
Company:	The One Enterprise ME MITI (Season 1-3) Heliconia H Group (Season 4 - present)
Network:	ONE HD (Season 1-3) Channel 7 HD (Season 4 - present)
Related:	Top Chef

Top Chef Thailand is a Thai reality competition television series. The show premiered on March 25, 2017 on ONE HD. The first season consisted of 13 episodes, with 15 contestants vying for a grand prize of ฿1,000,000. Contestants shopped at Makro Food Service. Contestants are judged by a panel of professional chefs and other notables from the food and wine industry, with one or more contestants being eliminated each week.^[1]

Hosts and Judges

Judges	Season
	1	2	3	4
Willment Leong (Head)	✔
Suphamongkhon Supapipat	✔
Thitid Tassanakajohn	✔
Phichaya Soontornyanakij	✔
Hosts	Season
	1	2	3	4
Pitipat Kootrakul^[2]	✔			-

Running time

• All times are Indochina Time .

Season 1

Channel	Day	Time	Air dates
ONE HD	Saturday	20:20 – 21:50	March 25, 2017 – June 24, 2017 (March 15, 2017; take off the air)
	Friday (Rerun)	13:00 – 14:30	March 31, 2017 – April 28, 2017
		12:50 – 14.20	May 5, 2017 – June 30, 2017

Season 4

Show Format

• Quickfire Challenge round (Speed, skills, and solve unexpected problems test): The warm up competition for contestants before the Elimination Challenge. The winners of this competition will be eligible, which has the advantage of the next race. In this round, one contestant will be eliminated. (only in episode 1)
• Elimination Challenge round (Knockout stage): The contestants prepare one or more dishes to meet the challenge requirements. In this round, at the least one contestant will be eliminated.
• Elimination Quickfire Challenge (Special knockout stage): The special round in episode 12, this round is like the Quickfire Challenge round. In this round, at the least one contestant will be eliminated.

Seasons

Season	Winner	Runner(s)-up	Finalists	Episodes	Air Dates	Filming Location
1	Chudaree Debhakam^[3]	Phattanant Thongthong	15	13	March 25, 2017 – June 24, 2017	Bangkok, Thailand
2	Prapas Panawira^[4]	Sorawis Saengvanich	12	13	October 7, 2018 – January 13, 2019	Bangkok, Thailand
3	Wattanasak Changkeb	Chupong Srinuch	14	13	November 2, 2019 – February 15, 2020	Bangkok, Thailand
4	Arttasit Pattanasatienkul	Teo Zheng Yi Enoch Wisakha Rawichan	16	15	February 5, - May 28. 2023	Bangkok, Thailand

External links

• Facebook

Notes and References

1. Web site: 'ช่องวัน31' คว้าลิขสิทธิ์!! 'TOP CHEF THAILAND'. komchadluek.net. 19 March 2017. 2017-03-19.
2. Web site: 'ปีติภัทร คูตระกูล' พิธีกรฝีปากเป็นเอก. bangkokbiznews.com. 2017-03-19.
3. Web site: ชุดารี เทพาคำ ท็อปเชฟไทยแลนด์คนแรก. posttoday.com. 30 June 2017. 2017-06-30.
4. Web site: ลุ้นจนหยดสุดท้าย! "เชฟอ๊อตโต้" แชมป์คนใหม่ "Top Chef Thailand Season 2". sanook.com. 14 January 2019. 2019-01-14.