The Fix: Bangkok with Mint Jarukittikun

By wazup on January 22, 2026 No Comments / 6 views

For this edition of The Fix, our members-only travel guide series, the notion of “decoding” a destination feels particularly absurd. Bangkok is a city that rejects this very premise. It doesn’t reveal itself cleanly, doesn’t respect the comforting hierarchies of old and new, luxury and street, sacred and profane. Instead, it piles them all together—sometimes on the same block, sometimes in the same doorway—and asks you to keep up.

Mint Thanyaporn Jarukittikun has a name for this: positive chaos. “It looks at first like a mess. You don’t know why there’s underwear next to food next to electronics—but it’s somehow nice together.”

Born and raised in Bangkok, Mint is a researcher, designer, and co-founder of Samrub Samrub Thai, one of the city’s most influential restaurants—less a dining room than an ongoing cultural project. Alongside her husband Prin Polsuk, considered by many in gastronomy to be the best Thai chef in the world, she has spent the past decade tracing the country’s cuisine back to people’s kitchens, village markets, and regional memory, pushing against the idea that tradition belongs to palaces or textbooks.