{"id":317071,"date":"2026-05-15T11:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/317071\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:05:14","slug":"the-sisters-preserving-one-of-l-a-s-oldest-thai-restaurants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/317071\/","title":{"rendered":"The sisters preserving one of L.A.\u2019s oldest Thai restaurants"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Quincy <\/a> May 15, 2026 3 AM PT <\/p>\n

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Sisters Amanda and Katy grew up watching their parents build one of Los Angeles\u2019 oldest Thai restaurants. Since Chao Krung Thai first opened on Fairfax Ave in 1974 it\u2019s been a pillar of L.A.\u2019s Thai community and also a site of cultural negotiation, adapting Thai-style flavors to American palates. Over fifty years later, the sisters have bought the building and doubled down on authenticity. Today they\u2019re serving authentic family recipes with an upscale feel in addition to running several other food projects and restaurants that draw on their rich culture and experiences growing up in So-Cal.<\/p>\n

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Quincy Bowie Jr. is a video fellow at the Los Angeles Times. The proud Alabama native graduated from USC, where he studied journalism and documentary. In his time there, he contributed to the Daily Trojan, USC Annenberg Media and produced multiple documentaries and short films. You can find his previous work at CNN, Spectrum News and Memor\u00edas de Nomada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 15, 2026 3 AM PT Share via Close extra sharing options Sisters Amanda and Katy grew up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[18319,132498,132494,2303,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,132493,132500,132495,15158,132499,3231,38310,132497,132496],"class_list":["post-317071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-addition","tag-american-palate","tag-cultural-negotiation","tag-l-a","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-old-thai-restaurant","tag-rich-culture","tag-several-other-food-project","tag-sister","tag-sisters-amanda","tag-site","tag-thai-community","tag-thai-style-flavor","tag-upscale-feel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}