She and her husband, chef Dylan Jones, own and operated Bo.lan, a restaurant in Bangkok's Thong Lo neighborhood.
Duangporn Songvisava, nicknamed "Bo",[1] was born in Bangkok, Thailand,[2] in 1979 or 1980[3] to a Thai mother and a Taiwanese father.
[8] Songvisava wanted to go to culinary school,[8] but her parents urged her to go to college and earn a traditional degree.
[6][9] In 2005[10] she took a position as a chef de partie[10] in London with David Thompson's Nahm, then seen as one of the world's best Thai restaurants and one of the few with a Michelin star.
[6] In 2008, Songvisava and Jones opened Bo.lan in what was previously a bungalow-style home in Bangkok's Thong Lo neighborhood.
[1] The restaurant used solar panels[19] and had its own vegetable garden and water filtration system and recycles waste.
[2] It sourced from local farmers and artisans,[4] and the wine list includes emerging Thai wineries.
Songvisava cited pressures from coronavirus measures such as semi-lockdowns, reduced seating capacity, and the ban on alcohol sales.
[24] In 2015, the couple opened Err, which translates to "yeah" in Thai, a casual dining restaurant serving street food.
[28][29] CNN credited Jones and Songvisava, along with their mentor David Thompson, with "forcibly (and sometimes tactlessly) reacquainting Thai diners with their own culinary heritage.