YIM ALL-DAY: KHAO SOI
You Know the Dish. Do You Know Where It Came From?
Khao Soi (ข้าวซอย) is on every menu in Chiang Mai. Most people have eaten it. Few know what separates one bowl from another — or why the dish exists in Northern Thailand at all. This program traces Khao Soi back to its origins in Yunnan trade routes and the Haw Muslim merchant communities (ชุมชนชาวฮ่อ) who brought it south, then moves through the dish as it exists today: the ingredients that define it, the cooks who have made it their own, and the kitchens that are reinterpreting it now. It is a full day in Chiang Mai. Two to six guests. One dish, examined from origin to contemporary table.