Pastry Special Awards 2023Pastry chef

Dej Kewkacha

Kyo Bar

Bangkok, Thailand

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Pastry Talent of the Year Award

Most promising pastry chefs of the year (across bakeries, tea rooms, and dessert restaurants)

Thai-born chef-patron Dej Kewkacha opened his first food business at 22 with his brothers, and now operates over 50 F&B outlets including Thailand’s most popular Japanese dessert cafés, Kyo Roll En. But it’s Kewkacha’s passion project, Kyo Bar, that demonstrates his outstanding skill and creativity in the pastry field, marking him out as an exemplary talent, even though he is self-taught. Kyo Bar serves an omakase dessert-only menu of Japanese and Thai ingredients, such as pear and black pepper ‘Ravioli’; ‘Zen Garden’ with sesame, white bean paste, and cheese; and his sweet interpretation of ‘BBQ’.