Bo Songvisava

Duangporn "Bo" Songvisava (; born ) is a Thai chef and restaurateur. She and her husband, chef Dylan Jones, own and operated Bo.lan, a restaurant in Bangkok's Thong Lo neighborhood. In 2018 Songvisava was profiled on the fifth season of the documentary series Chef's Table.

Early life and education Duangporn Songvisava, nicknamed "Bo", was born in Bangkok, Thailand, to a Thai mother and a Taiwanese father. She has four siblings. Her parents owned and operated a canning business. Growing up, she helped them cook Thai-Chinese food at home; In 2005 she took a position as a chef de partie It followed a slow food concept and served traditional Thai food. The Daily Telegraph called the food "sophisticated but unpretentious." Songvisava received most of her inspiration from reading old cookbooks and from talking with farmers. and had its own vegetable garden and water filtration system and recycles waste. It resisted demanding organic certification because the bureaucratic paperwork might drive away farms, so Songvisava says, "I visit the farms and if I trust that they're doing organic, I buy from them." In March 2022, Bo.lan reopened for so-called "ad hoc dining", held multiple times each month. The restaurant fully reopened in December 2023.

Songvisava taught food & beverage management and Thai cooking at two Thai universities and hosted a PBS show called Kin Yu Kue (Eat Live Be) covering food issues.

In 2015, the couple opened Err, which translates to "yeah" in Thai, a casual dining restaurant serving street food.

In 2016 they hosted a pop-up in Hong Kong.

In 2018 Songvisava was profiled on the fifth season of the documentary series Chef's Table.

In 2019 Jones and Songvisava judged the finals of Hyatt's Good Taste Series.

Awards and recognition Bo.lan has a Michelin star, awarded the first year Michelin put out a guide to Thailand. CNN credited Jones and Songvisava, along with their mentor David Thompson, with "forcibly (and sometimes tactlessly) reacquainting Thai diners with their own culinary heritage." and Bo.lan was number 36 on the 50 Best Restaurants in Asia list.

In 2017 it was named to the Culinary Institute of America's Plant-forward Global 50 list and was 19th on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants.

In 2019 Bo.lan was named one of the 18 best restaurants in the world by World Restaurant Awards and was 19th on S. Pellegrino & Acqua Panna Asia's 50 Best Restaurants.

Personal life Songvisava is married to Australian-born Dylan Jones. The two met while working at London's Nahm and married in 2012. The couple have two sons.