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Benjarong x Potong

<p>There are collabs—and then there are collabs that make you sit up straighter in your chair, drop your fork mid-bite, and say, wait, they’re cooking together? <strong>“Manila Calls, Bangkok Answers”</strong> is one of those moments. For<strong> two nights only</strong>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dusitthani.manila/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Dusit Thani Manila’s</strong></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/benjarong_manila/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Benjarong</strong></a> will host <strong>an eight-course dinner</strong> that brings together <strong>Chef Watcharaphon “Ja” Yongbanthom</strong>, Benjarong’s own rising culinary star, and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/chef.pam/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Chef Pichaya “Pam” Soontornyanakij</strong></a> of Bangkok’s <a href="https://www.instagram.com/restaurant.potong/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Restaurant Potong</strong></a>—recently named the <a href="https://www.theworlds50best.com/awards/best-female-chef.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">World’s Best Female Chef 2025</a>. It’s a powerhouse pairing that feels less like a polite culinary handshake and more like a cross-border love letter written in chili, spice, and smoke.</p><div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1756978611771Workbench Thumbnail.jpg" style="width:300px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/></div><p>Chef Pam arrives with history on her shoulders. She was named The World’s Best Female Chef 2025 by The World’s 50 Best Restaurants, becoming the first Asian—and first Thai—woman to ever claim the title. At her Michelin-starred Restaurant Potong in Bangkok’s Chinatown, she reimagines Thai-Chinese cuisine with personal heritage at its core. Set within her family’s former traditional Chinese pharmacy, POTONG’s tasting menu follows Chef Pam’s immersive “five elements and five senses” philosophy, weaving salt, acid, spice, texture, and Maillard reaction into a sensory journey that bridges tradition and bold innovation.</p><div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1756978637606Workbench Thumbnail2.jpg" style="width:300px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/></div><p>Facing her across the kitchen, Chef Ja has quietly built Benjarong into one of Manila’s crown jewels of Thai dining.Under her leadership, the restaurant has earned the prestigious THAI SELECT Seal of Approval—the Royal Thai Government’s official stamp of authenticity for restaurants serving genuine Thai cuisine. If Benjarong is known as a showcase of Royal Thai cuisine at its most authentic, it’s also where artistry and refinement live in every dish. Think of it as porcelain turned edible—colorful, precise, and quietly dazzling.</p><div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1756978676405750_5091.jpg" style="width:300px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/></div><p>Together, their collaboration promises more than just a menu. Each course is set to unfold like a dialogue between tradition and invention, Manila and Bangkok, memory and surprise. Diners can expect an experience that doesn’t just satisfy but sparks—proof that food can be both deeply rooted and thrillingly new.</p><p>This dinner is one more sign of how Manila’s dining scene keeps raising the stakes—where global stars and local talent trade ideas, clash flavors, and spark obsessions. If this is where 2025 has brought us, then the months ahead promise even more tables that blur the line between tradition and what’s next.</p><div><em>Keep your eyes on Benjarong, Potong, and the collabs that are rewriting Manila’s dining story.</em></div>

<p>For two nights only, Manila diners can experience an exclusive 8-course collaboration between Benjarong Manila and Michelin-starred POTONG, led by World’s Best Female Chef 2025, Chef Pam Soontornyanakij.</p>

For two nights only, Manila diners can experience an exclusive 8-course collaboration between Benjarong Manila and Michelin-starred POTONG, led by World’s Best Female Chef 2025, Chef Pam Soontornyanakij.

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Published Sep 01, 2025 05:45 PM PHT

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Updated Sep 04, 2025 05:42 PM PHT

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