Our Story · เรื่องราวของเรา
We opened this restaurant
for the children.
We have kept this promise since 2019 — when we opened in September and had to close in December, as the silence of a tourism-less, income-less pandemic fell over our Mai Khao community.
When we reopened in 2021, the hardship that everyone in Phuket had endured changed us. We chose to build a sharing business — a restaurant whose profits would go toward developing 120 young children at Ban Mai Khao School. In 2022, Michelin gave us the opportunity to grow.
Our model begins with a great-grandmother whose recipes have fed our family for over a century. A chef who grew up in this house, who loves to cook, who absorbed อาม่า's teaching: "Good food starts with good ingredients." We source from Phuket's own communities — Andaman Vegetable from Mai Khao farmers who have revived a coastal crop into a family business; GI-certified Phuket Lobster from the Moken sea people of Tha Chatchai and Pa Lai; and GI-certified Phuket Pineapple from growers.
Years on, our guests love the food. The community earns more. The children have a safer school — its classrooms repaired from our profits. We are grateful for the fate that brought everyone to this red table: a restaurant business that grows sustainably, together with our community and its children.
"Cook like home. Source with care. Feed with love."
TOH DAENG · Phuket Old Town
