SAI DEETHWA’S TRADITIONAL THAI SUKI

“Street food is a daily utility in Thailand. If you have a dish that sells well, you don’t share that secret recipe”

2012, then-social worker Sai Deethwa arrived at a watershed moment. Increasingly feeling that her future lay in food, she competed in that year’s , which only intensified the urge: ‘I thought about food all the time. I read cookbooks and menus in bed. Do I sit at my desk thinking about the meal I’m going to cook tonight? No. It needed to become my life because, in my head, it already was.’ The result was Thai street-food brand Buddha Belly, a much-loved feature of the West Midlands’ food