Who is Chef McDang?

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Who?

Chef McDang ML Sirichalerm Svasti

(Chef McDang)

ML Sirichalerm Svasti (Chef McDang) is Thailand’s leading food expert, chef and writer. Born into the Thai royal family, McDang completed his early education in the UK and USA and at the Culinary Institute of America, which led to a career as executive chef and restaurant owner and manager that saw him travel from Washington DC to Florida and California. Upon returning to Thailand in 1993, McDang began writing about food and cooking and appeared on TV cooking shows. Sixteen years later, McDang is Thailand’s most famous food expert and a respected ambassador for Thai cuisine. He is the author of several best-selling Thai language cook books, host of the popular weekly TV program, ‘McDang Show’, pens weekly food columns for leading Thai and English-language newspapers, and consults for a number of companies, including Thai Airways, Bangkok Airways, Siam Winery, and Sodexo.

At an international level, McDang has appeared on a number of TV shows and has performed lecture tours in Australia and New Zealand. Each year he is invited to lecture at culinary schools in the USA by Thailand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which he has recently been appointed as an honorary chef instructor at Le Cordon Bleu, Las Vegas. It is the notes for these lectures that form the basis of his first English language cook book ‘The Principle of Thai Cookery’, with a dream of having Thailand and Thai cuisine become even better known internationally.

Biography

Born:
July 16, 1953, Thailand

Education:
Cheltenham College, Gloucestershire, England
Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service, Washington DC, USA
Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park, New York

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International TV

2012 / Guest appearance & Judge, Around the World in 80 Plates (US)

2011 / Guest appearance on Vayage Channel, Street Food Around the World (IL)

2011 / Guest appearance with Donna Perkins, Andiamo (US)

2010 / Guest appearance with Gordon Ramsay, Gordon’s Great Escape (UK)

2009 / Guest appearance on NZZ Channel, Thai Food documentary (Germany)

2009 / Guest appearance with Anthony Bourdain, No Reservations (USA)

2008 / Guest appearance with Jeff Corwin, Extreme Cuisine (USA)

2004 / Appears in Taste Takes off to Thailand 2004 (New Zealand)

2003 / Guest on City Cabs / Letterbox (USA)

2001 / Guest and consultant for Planet Food Thailand (UK)