Welcome to The Supper Club
"Gaaeng," as it is called in Thailand is a unique family-style dining concept. With an intimate dinner experience, we will take everyone to travel with us and narrate the stories of "Regional Thai local wisdom" refers to the unique knowledge, practices, and beliefs passed down through generations, often deeply tied to the local environment, culture, and way of life, encompassing aspects like sustainable farming techniques, traditional medicine, food preparation, and community customs, which vary significantly depending on the region.
This immersive & casual Thai family-style dinning experience includes 7-9 dishes made from scratch, based on authentic recipes that have fallen out of Thai culinary's trends with seasonal homemade ingredients also most of our ingredients are shipped all the way from Thailand. This dinner is not courses, as Thai food really shouldn't be eaten as courses.
BYOB
You’re welcome to bring your own drinks to enjoy alongside the meal. For wine, we suggest chilled reds, rosé, pét-nat, or orange wines. If beer is more your style, light and sour varieties are a great match—lagers are always a solid choice too.
Allergies and Dietary restrictions
Meat, fish, shellfish (including shrimp and fermented shrimp paste), nuts, chilis, gluten and more will be incorporated throughout the meal. Due to this, allergies and dietary restrictions cannot be accommodated. If you book out the whole table, we can, of course, accommodate your group's needs
meet
Pao
Thampitak
I was born and raised in Thailand. I've been working in the restaurant industry for 8 years and used to be an executive opening chef at Mahaniyom in 2020. I truly enjoyed working with the team to conceptualize the menu and bring the vision to reality, yet the constraints of a repetitive menu were not for me.
Inspired by my upbringing and fueled by my desire to share the authentic flavors of Thailand, I embarked on a culinary journey that is truly me and set outside the limits of the traditional restaurant industry. Which gave me the idea of running this pop up.
'Gaaeng Supper Club' is themed around different regions or cities in Thailand that have been fallen out of Thai culinary trends, illustrating how varied the cuisine can be even among geographically close destinations. And trying to be a spokesman for some of the small communities in Thailand that are not well known for their food wisdom and ingredients.
I'm processing customs forms to collect boxes of spices and other ingredients, procured and shipped to me direct from Thailand complementing local finds in Boston. The availability of ingredients is extremely seasonal, the menus are planned by factoring in shipping times and then adapted based on New England’s seasonality to create thoughtful pop up dining experiences.
My culinary journey is not just about the food. It’s about the people and partnerships that make it all possible. My work is built on community collabs with local bartenders up the ante with creative cocktails pairing.
From Pao
The heart of Gaaeng is simple: to preserve what already exists and let it shine in a new light. I’ve never been interested in inventing something new just for the sake of it. What matters to me is listening, looking closer, and going deeper into the stories, flavors, and local wisdom that quietly live within small Thai communities and have been passed down through generations of cooking.
What we do at Gaaeng is reimagine those traditions gently and thoughtfully, with care for sustainability, so that people who may have never known or tasted them before can experience them in a new way. In Thai, gaaeng means curry, but to me it represents something much larger. Curry paste is where everything begins, pounded by hand, shaped by memory, instinct, and time.
Gaaeng is also about local wisdom, the kind that lives quietly in old kitchens and reveals itself through taste before words. Every menu we create becomes a journey across Thailand, from the smoky hills of the North to the bright, salty winds of the South.
Some ingredients travel thousands of miles from home, things you simply can’t find here, but I want people to know them and understand where they come from. Others grow right here in my small Boston garden. Together, they remind me that distance doesn’t mean disconnection.
Cooking, for me, is a way of learning. Learning through ingredients is how I try to build something sustainable, a small way of giving back to the communities both here and back home.
When I build a menu, I start with what’s in season in Thailand, what’s growing under the Thai sun right now, and then pair it with what’s fresh here in Boston. That’s how new dishes are born, Thai at heart but shaped by where I am now.
Some of our dishes come from tiny villages, recipes passed from hand to hand rather than written in books. We study them, develop them, and tell their stories in our own voice. Some are so rare that even many Thais have never heard of them.
I may not have the loudest voice, but I’m proud to do something small for the food and the country I love.
At Gaaeng, it’s never just about the food. It’s about people, stories, and community. We cook, we share, we laugh, and somewhere along the way, people leave as friends, with full hearts and full stomachs.
That’s when we begin to rediscover what Thai food can be, beyond the familiar dishes, as a world of flavors still waiting to be explored. And maybe that’s the point. Because one dish can change the whole world,
if you believe it can
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