Restaurant prepares to welcome PM after winning Michelin

By CHANYUT PAWAKANG 
THE NATION

 

Supinya Junsuta, who has won a Michelin star for her roadside restaurant, cooks her famous crabmeat omelette yesterday. Her shop is Thailand’s only street-food eatery to have won Michelin recognition.

 

THE ONLY Thai street-food eatery to have won a Michelin Star, Jay Fai, will soon have an opportunity to cook up some dishes for Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha.

 

“The Michelin Guide team will arrange the occasion,” Jay Fai owner and chef Supinya Junsuta said yesterday, one day after she picked up the Michelin-star certification.

 

 

Supinya Junsuta, who has won a Michelin star for her roadside restaurant, cooks her famous |crabmeat omelette |yesterday. Her shop is Thailand’s only street-food eatery to have won Michelin recognition.

 

She plans to serve Prayut her famous dishes such as a crabmeat omelette and dried congee. “I’ve heard the prime minister loves Thai food,” Supinya said. 

 

The 72-year-old woman said that if she got the opportunity to speak to Prayut she would tell him to take good care of fishermen and to ensure police are not too strict with people who are trying to earn a living. 

 

“It’s difficult for sellers to not raise their prices, if their cost increases,” Supinya said. 

 

She said that several high-profile figures were already among her customers, including HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn.

 

“I was working in front of my stove one day and suddenly the Princess turned up. I cooked stir-fried noodles for her,” Supinya said.

Her simple restaurant serves delicious food although the price tags are way more expensive than normal street food. 

 

A crabmeat-omelette dish, for example, starts at Bt800 and the most expensive item, abalone noodles in gravy, is Bt20,000. “I have set reasonable prices. My ingredients are premium quality and very fresh,” Supinya said. 

 

 

Her restaurant is known as “Jay Fai” because Supinya has a noticeable mole on her neck. Fai means mole in Thai. 

 

Supinya said she inherited the food shop from her parents, who started serving stir-fried noodles more than seven decades ago. 

“I started helping my parents following the closure of the factory I worked for,” she said. 

 

After working for some time at the restaurant, she started diversifying the menu by creating new dishes. 

 

Supinya said she believed that aside from quality ingredients, charcoal-based cooking is the key to her successful business. 

 

There is a constant flow of customers despite the restaurant’s relatively high prices, compared with other street-food eateries. 

 

A 41-year-old customer at Jay Fai yesterday said he started frequenting the restaurant 25 years ago. “I was just a school student when I heard this place served really yummy food,” he said. 

 

He believed most people would forget the relatively high price after tasting the food. “I can tell you that the taste is exactly the same every time, so whenever you come back, you are not disappointed,” he said. 

 

He believed the prices set by Supinya were reasonable because the ingredients were of such high quality. Phirada Cheepsattayakorn, 29, said when she first went to Jay Fai, she found the prices shockingly high. “But after the food arrived, I thought it was money well-spent,” she said. 

 

She said she used to visit with her boyfriend and now that it has won a Michelin star, she hoped to soon take her parents too. 

 

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I wouldn't be surprise at all that with the Michelin star will come

a price increase no doubts.... hopefully the lady will rise above greed

and be truly deserving the gastronomy accolades...

20,000 baht for Abalone noodles !!!!!! Is she taking p£$" ??

800 baht for a crab meat omelette.. Couple eggs and what, 50 bahts worth of crab meat :)

She certainly didn't get her Michelin star for cleanliness....

Whatever you do madam, don't serve him a crab sandwich, no matter how fresh!

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Michelin stars obviously dont mean much these days.......

Before clicking this I was so so happy that Thai street food was being recognised for the quality and taste we all know you can eat on the streets here in Thailand, but after reading i was sadly let down this place is not for poor but for those that can show off paying 20000 BAHT for meal.

maybe that's a typo error .....  they forgot the decimal ...   crab meat omelette 200.00 baht  not 20000 

2 hours ago, webfact said:

A crabmeat-omelette dish, for example, starts at Bt800 and the most expensive item, abalone noodles in gravy, is Bt20,000. “I have set reasonable prices

Lol....what a load of abalone

And all fried in the same stinking oil as a 30 baht omelette :)

So go get ripped off at old moles footpath eatery.

 

 

Not far from Phan Fah bridge / boat stop if anybody is interested.

 

13.752578, 100.504734

sure people wil be lining up now for 20.000 baht noodles

I just googled Michelin starred restaurants in London, serving seafood. Picked the 1st one, The Angler and checked their menu. Not seafood but a 5 course "Truffle" menu will set you back 5000 baht.

 

So, 20k for some skanks noodles !!!! You sure she didn't get a Dunlop Star, not Michelin :)

 

I'm a bit bored at work and it's Friday, hence I'm commenting on ridiculous stories..

Edited December 8, 20178 yr by cornishcarlos

There sure is a lot of hate on this fairly innocuous thread.

2 hours ago, ezzra said:

hopefully the lady will rise above greed

 

2 hours ago, cornishcarlos said:

Is she taking p£$" ??

 

2 hours ago, cornishcarlos said:

She certainly didn't get her Michelin star for cleanliness.

 

1 hour ago, LennyW said:

Michelin stars obviously dont mean much these days.

 

35 minutes ago, coulson said:

Lol....what a load of abalone

 

29 minutes ago, cornishcarlos said:

stinking oil

 

23 minutes ago, Oziex1 said:

ripped off at old moles footpath eatery

 

4 minutes ago, cornishcarlos said:

some skanks noodles

Spread the love, not hate, guys.

Those prices have to be a typo - 800 baht for a crab-meat omelette and 20000 baht for a plate of noodles?

 

I think 80 baht for an omelette and 200 baht of a plate of noodles falls within the realm of 'phaeng maak' for most Thai's. 

 

I believe what has happened is that during the development of the article,

the writer was 'thinking' in Thai and wasn't able to reconcile the translation of the prices from Thai to English. 

 I have observed this phenomenon during spoken conversations with Thai's quite often -

e.g. they say "two thousand" in English, but actually mean "two hundred".

 

48 minutes ago, Briggsy said:

There sure is a lot of hate on this fairly innocuous thread.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spread the love, not hate, guys.

 

Astonishment rather than hate from me.... 

I thought Prayuth had banned roadside eateries?

1 hour ago, Briggsy said:

There sure is a lot of hate on this fairly innocuous thread.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spread the love, not hate, guys.

Not hate, Briggsy just constructive comment on costly street food served by the self interested.

20k has to be a typo surely 555 i think Suhring the german place in yenakat won the michelin bkk number 1 restaurant or something like that and i went there earlier in the year and although expensive it's not ridiculous and you are in a fair amount of luxury in a beautiful converted house. if people are paying 800 baht to sit in that dump and eat an omelette then i think the BIB should be round there piss testing them

Edited December 8, 20178 yr by Happy enough

The only reason I can think of to give a roadside stall a Michelin star is that it's free publicity for Michelin, look we also rate normal food with a star...

Bet it will be all over the news that a Thai road stall got a Michelin Star.

            She plans to serve Prayut her famous dishes such as a crapmeat rotten omelet and died congee. “I’ve heard the prime minister loves Thai food,” Supinya said. But Supinya doesn't like little army men without self-esteem. 

I went to one of these places with a Michelin star back home, paid a small fortune for a 5-course meal... and went to McDonald's after because I was still hungry!

5 hours ago, webfact said:

street-food eatery

doesnt look much like a street food place to me; can relate to the happy guy with the two beers against the wall in the first photo tho

2 hours ago, varun said:

Those prices have to be a typo - 800 baht for a crab-meat omelette and 20000 baht for a plate of noodles?

 

I think 80 baht for an omelette and 200 baht of a plate of noodles falls within the realm of 'phaeng maak' for most Thai's. 

 

I believe what has happened is that during the development of the article,

the writer was 'thinking' in Thai and wasn't able to reconcile the translation of the prices from Thai to English. 

 I have observed this phenomenon during spoken conversations with Thai's quite often -

e.g. they say "two thousand" in English, but actually mean "two hundred".

 

 

I believe you are correct.

 

I have just taken the bold and imaginative step of actually checking what the online Michelin Guide says about the restaurant and sure enough prices " Between 200 and 800 THB" .

 

PS If anyone else wants to do something known as "factchecking" here is the "site", which one can find on the "Internet":

 

https://guide.michelin.com/th/en/bangkok/jay-fai/restaurant

 

 

Edited December 8, 20178 yr by Enoon

11 minutes ago, Enoon said:

 

I believe you are correct.

 

I have just taken the bold and imaginative step of actually checking what the online Michelin Guide says about the restaurant and sure enough prices " Between 200 and 800 THB" .

 

PS If anyone else wants to do something known as "factchecking" here is the "site", which one can find on the "Internet":

 

https://guide.michelin.com/th/en/bangkok/jay-fai/restaurant

 

 

 

Facts ??? Boring.......

The little fat guy under the self appointed supreme leader will be sooo jealous. 

1 hour ago, Oziex1 said:

Not hate, Briggsy just constructive comment on costly street food served by the self interested.

 

"Destructive" comment,  as is common on these pages.

 

 

 

Edited December 8, 20178 yr by Enoon

13 minutes ago, cornishcarlos said:

 

Facts ??? Boring.......

 

Get on with your work.

 

 

 

26 minutes ago, Enoon said:

 

I believe you are correct.

 

I have just taken the bold and imaginative step of actually checking what the online Michelin Guide says about the restaurant and sure enough prices " Between 200 and 800 THB" .

 

PS If anyone else wants to do something known as "factchecking" here is the "site", which one can find on the "Internet":

 

https://guide.michelin.com/th/en/bangkok/jay-fai/restaurant

 

 

Fact checking Enoon, your no fun at all are you.

 

Here at Thai Visa, we never let facts stand in the way of a good whinge.

Been there a few times. Good food. A bit pricey but indeed a typo (as far as I recall). Dishes somewhat more generous than usual fare in such places. Don't know that I'd go out of my way to sample, not that special, but a good choice if already in the area.