Mc Dang

ML Sirichalerm Svasti

16 July 1953

nicknamed Chef McDang

Is Thai celebrity food expert, chef and writer. He is an only one Thai chef who has his own training class called “Principle of Thai Cookery” with Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Art.

Born into the Thai royal family,McDang completed his early education at Cheltenham College (Gloucestershire, England), Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service, (Washington DC, USA) and at the Culinary Institute of America (New York, USA), which led to a career as executive chef at The Marriottee Reach Hotel (Key West, Forida, USA), Food & Beverage Director for Paul Tripp Restaurant Group (Key West Forida, USA) and restaurant owner and manager of Back Porch Cafe’ (Rehoboth,Beach, DE., USA) that saw him travel from Washington DC to Florida and CaliforniaThai Executive Chef and Food Expert Route Upon returning to Thailand in 1993, McDang began writing about food & cooking and appeared on TV cooking shows. Sixteen years later, McDang is Thailand’s most famous food expert and a respected ambassador for Thai cuisine.He is the author of several best-selling Thai language cook books, host of the popular weekly TV program, ‘McDang Show’, pens weekly food columns for leading Thai and English-language newspapers, and consults for a number of companies, including Bangkok Airways, Siam Wineryand Wai Wai instant noodles. At an international level, McDang has appeared on a number of TV shows and has performed lecture tours in Australia and New Zealand. Each year he is invited to lecture at culinary schools in the USA about Thai cuisine. It is the notes for these lectures that form the basis of his first English language cook book ‘The Principle of Thai Cookery’, which is due to be published in 2009.

Bibliography
Since 1998, McDang has written 8 books. Chef Mcdang also writes a "McDang Guide" column, which presents good foods and great restaurants in Thailand and around the world in the local Thai newspaper. (Daily News, second largest circulation newspaper in Thailand

Thai Language
McDang Cook Book. (1998)
Yum Thai Yum Farang Cook Book (1999)

McDang Cook Book 2 (2000)
McDang Guide 2001 (restaurant guide) (2001)
McDang Guide 2003 (restaurant guide) (2003)
McDang’s Recipes (2003)
Mcdang Guide (restaurant guide) (2004)
Delicious Food from McDang’s kitchen (2005)

English Language
POTC “Principle of Thai Cookery” (Available at the end of October,2009)

Television Shows in Thailand
McDang Show (MCOT Channel 9, 2007- present)

McDang’s Kitchen Weekly (ITV, 2003-2007)
Father & Son Kitchen (ITV, 2000-2003)
McDang Koo Krua (Channel 5, 2000-2001)
McDang Plang Ros (Channel 7,1998-2000)
Krob Chakraval Kitchen (Channel 9, 1997-1998)

International Television Cameo Appearances
Guest appearance with Anthony Bourdain, No Reservations (USA, 2009)
Guest appearance with Jeff Corwin, Extreme Cuisine Citizen Pictures (USA, 2009)
Appears in Taste Takes off to Thailand 2004 (New Zealand, 2004)
Guest on City Cabs / Letterbox (USA, 2003)
Guest and consultant for Planet Food Thailand, Travel Channel (UK, 2001)