Pioneering restaurateur Amy Chanta of Chat Thai restaurants dies
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The pioneering restaurateur behind the popular Chat Thai restaurants across Sydney, Amy Chanta, has died.
Chanta lived with cancer for two years before passing away yesterday, her daughter, fellow restaurateur Palisa Anderson, announced on social media.
Chanta, who grew up in a Thai village, opened her first Chat Thai restaurant in Darlinghurst in 1989. She popularised Thai flavours with Australian diners, eventually employing hundreds in her many restaurants across the city, and in her family s Boon Cafe and Jarern Chai grocer in Haymarket. Chat Thai s pineapple fried rice.