Our Story
Dhanapol Marprasert was born in Washington, D.C. to a Thai army attache family. His family moved to Bangkok in 1994 where he spent the rest of his childhood and developed an interested in cooking Thai food. As a self-taught chef, Marprasert started his career as a pot washer and finally became a professional cook. In 2014, he moved to the States challenging himself in Tennessee. By 2020, his first restaurant, Makin, was founded in Middle Village, New York, with the concept of affordable Thai dishes. At KAM RAI THAI, his second restaurant , Marprasert challenges himself with the concept of contemporary Thai tastes to present Thai food as a set of cultural processes. He combines tecuiniques of cooking from other cultures to create Thai dishes. There is no exact authentic Thai taste, he argues, taste is subjective and what i have tried to cook now is merely contemporary tastes of varied dishes from every part of Thailand. At KAM RAI THAI, you can feel the tastes of what Thai people eat. His ideal is as simple as that to make you feel…..”Aroi!”