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Chef behind Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2023 winner Le Du to open new fine-dining eatery Niras in Hong Kong this June
- Thai chef Thitid Tassanakajohn of Le Du and Nusara in Bangkok – first and third on the Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2023 list – is opening his first overseas venue
- Niras will be located in Tsim Sha Tsui’s K11 Musea shopping centre and feature a menu similar to that served at the award-winning Le Du
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The restaurant considered to be Asia’s best is coming to Hong Kong.
Thai chef Thitid “Ton” Tassanakajohn, of Bangkok’s one-Michelin-star Le Du – No 1 on the Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants list for 2023 – will open Niras, a fine-dining restaurant, in the K11 Musea shopping centre in Tsim Sha Tsui, in Kowloon, this summer with long-time business partner Khun Rungroj “Tao” Ingudananda.
Heading the kitchen will be co-head chefs Naruemon “Mai” Ratiphuthilap and Sarocha “Bua” Rajatanawin.
Chef Mai had worked alongside Thitid – “as my right hand”, the chef says – for the past eight years at Le Du, while chef Bua led the team at Front Room at the Waldorf Astoria Bangkok.
Slated to open by mid-June, the restaurant will be Thitid’s first outside Thailand.
Charmaine Mok is the Deputy Culture Editor at SCMP and the desk's food and wine specialist. She has been working in food media since 2007, and most memorably drank 50 coffees over three days in the name of research. She’s devoted to telling unexpected stories of the dining scene in Asia and those who shape it, and is always in the mood for noodles and/or a cheeky beverage.
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