Top Chef Thailand
{{Infobox television
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| director =
| presenter = {{Plainlist|
- {{ill|Pitipat Kootrakul|th|ปีติภัทร คูตระกูล}} (Season 1–3)
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| judges = {{Plainlist|
- Willment Leong
- Suphamongkhon Supapipat
- Thitid Tassanakajohn
- Pichaya Soontornyanakij
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| narrated =
| country = Thailand
| language = Thai
| num_seasons = 4
| num_episodes = 54
| producer =
| runtime = 90 minutes
| company = The One Enterprise
ME MITI (Season 1–3)
Heliconia H Group (Season 4 – present)
| network = ONE HD
| first_aired = {{Start date|2017|03|25}}
| last_aired = {{End date|2020|02|15}}
| network2 = Channel 7
| first_aired2 = {{Start date|2023|02|05}}
| last_aired2 = present
| related = Top Chef
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Top Chef Thailand is a Thai reality competition television series. The show premiered on March 25, 2017 on ONE HD. The first season consisted of 13 episodes, with 15 contestants vying for a grand prize of ฿1,000,000. Contestants shopped at Makro Food Service. Contestants are judged by a panel of professional chefs and other notables from the food and wine industry, with one or more contestants being eliminated each week.{{cite web|url=http://www.komchadluek.net/news/ent/265735|title='ช่องวัน31' คว้าลิขสิทธิ์!! 'TOP CHEF THAILAND'|publisher=komchadluek.net|date= 19 March 2017|accessdate=2017-03-19}}
Hosts and Judges
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| rowspan="2"| Judges
! colspan="4"| Season | |
|---|---|
| 1
! 2 ! 3 ! 4 | |
| Willment Leong (Head) | colspan="4" style = "background:lightgreen; text-align:center;"|✔ |
| Suphamongkhon Supapipat | colspan="4" style = "background:lightgreen; text-align:center;"|✔ |
| Thitid Tassanakajohn | colspan="4" style="background:lightgreen; text-align:center;" |✔ |
| Pichaya Soontornyanakij | colspan="4" style = "background:lightgreen; text-align:center;"|✔ |
| rowspan="2"| Hosts
! colspan="4"| Season | |
| 1
! 2 ! 3 ! 4 | |
| {{ill|Pitipat Kootrakul|th|ปีติภัทร คูตระกูล}}{{cite web|url=http://www.bangkokbiznews.com/news/detail/761144|title='ปีติภัทร คูตระกูล' พิธีกรฝีปากเป็นเอก|publisher=bangkokbiznews.com|date= |accessdate=2017-03-19}} | colspan="3" style = "background:lightgreen; text-align:center;"|✔
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Running time
- All times are Indochina Time (UTC+07:00).
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| Season
! Channel ! Day ! Time ! Air dates |
|---|
| rowspan="3" | 1
| rowspan = "3" | ONE HD | Saturday | 20:20 – 21:50 | March 25, 2017 – June 24, 2017 |
| Friday (Rerun)
| 13:00 – 14:30 | March 31, 2017 – April 28, 2017 |
| Friday (Rerun)
| 12:50 – 14:20 | May 5, 2017 – June 30, 2017 |
| 2
| ONE HD | Sunday | 18:20 – 19:50 | October 7, 2018 – January 13, 2019 |
| 3
| ONE HD | Saturday | 20:10 – 22:00 | November 2, 2019 – February 15, 2020 |
| 4
| Sunday | 18:00 – 19:50 | February 5 – May 28, 2023 |
Show Format
- Quickfire Challenge round (Speed, skills, and solve unexpected problems test): The warm up competition for contestants before the Elimination Challenge. The winners of this competition will be eligible, which has the advantage of the next race. In this round, one contestant will be eliminated. (only in episode 1)
- Elimination Challenge round (Knockout stage): The contestants prepare one or more dishes to meet the challenge requirements. In this round, at the least one contestant will be eliminated.
- Elimination Quickfire Challenge (Special knockout stage): The special round in episode 12, this round is like the Quickfire Challenge round. In this round, at the least one contestant will be eliminated.
- Restaurant Wars is a competition round from Season 4 where the two chefs with the best restaurant concepts compete by opening real restaurants.
- Judges' Table In Season 4, the Judges' Table adopted the original format where contestants don't receive immediate feedback. Instead, the top 3 contestants are critiqued and the winner announced first. Then, the bottom 3 contestants receive their critiques. After a break for judge deliberation, the eliminated contestant from the bottom group is called back and told, "Please pack your knives and leave Top Chef" by the host or judges.
Seasons
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| Season
! Winner ! Runner(s)-up ! Finalists ! Episodes ! Air Dates |
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| 1
| Chudaree Debhakam{{cite web|url=http://www.posttoday.com/ent/celeb/500722|title=ชุดารี เทพาคำ ท็อปเชฟไทยแลนด์คนแรก|publisher=posttoday.com|date= 30 June 2017|accessdate=2017-06-30}} | Phattanant Thongthong |15 |13 |March 25, 2017 – June 24, 2017 |
| 2
| Sorawis Saengvanich |12 |13 |October 7, 2018 – January 13, 2019 |
| 3
| Wattanasak Changkeb | Chupong Srinuch |14 |13 |November 2, 2019 – February 15, 2020 |
| 4
| Arttasit Pattanasatienkul | Teo Zheng Yi Enoch and Wisakha Rawichan |16 |15 |February 5 – May 28, 2023 |
References
{{reflist}}
External links
- [https://www.facebook.com/topchefthailand/ Facebook]
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Category:Thai television series based on American television series
Category:2017 Thai television series debuts
Category:Thai reality television series
Category:One 31 original programming
Category:Television shows filmed in Thailand