Celebrating 190 years of Sydney dining
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Vale Amy Chanta: Pioneer, Matriarch and Advocate of Thai Cuisine in Australia
Amy Chanta’s approach was unapologetically traditional and celebratory, bringing to Australia “Thai food as Thai people eat it”.
Published on 15 March 2021
by Pilar Mitchell
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Amy Chanta, the pioneering restaurateur who championed Thai food and culture in Australia with her Chat Thai restaurant group, passed away last Wednesday, March 10, after living with cancer for two years. She was 63 years old.
You only need to look at a photo of Chanta to feel the magnetism and energy radiating from her. “She leaves us with her light, her immense passion for living a full, vibrant, spiritual life, generously giving and loving to all those who had the fortune to exist in her orbit,” Chanta’s daughter, Palisa Anderson, wrote in a tribute to her mother.
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.