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She spent 10 years living abroad and in Tokyo met her husband, a banking and finance laywer. While meeting with suppliers in Byron, Chanta and Anderson bought a farm. Skip to navigation Skip to content Skip to footer Help using this website - Accessibility statement. Jun 24, — Save Log in or Subscribe to save article.

Print article License article. Follow the topics, people and companies that matter to you. The pioneering restaurateur behind the popular Chat Thai restaurants across Sydney, Amy Chanta, has died. Chanta lived with cancer for two years before passing away yesterday, her daughter, fellow restaurateur Palisa Anderson, announced on social media.

Chanta, who grew up in a Thai village, opened her first Chat Thai restaurant in Darlinghurst in She popularised Thai flavours with Australian diners, eventually employing hundreds in her many restaurants across the city, and in her family's Boon Cafe and Jarern Chai grocer in Haymarket. The Chat Thai restaurants frequently struggled to source the increasingly large quantities of the speciality ingredients they needed such as holy basil, or kaphrao.

Anderson searched the country for a suitable property, finally settling on a lush hectare plot in Byron Bay. Today, Boon Luck Farm grows vegetables, perennial tree crops, bush foods, citrus trees and mangoes.

At the moment, we have an abundance of greens and vegetables, and it coincides with a vegan festival in Thailand that happens at this time of year, where they pay penance for their sins by being vegan for two weeks.

Boon Luck Farm is a certified organic operation. Farming has changed the way Anderson views the world. You realise that this should be natural rainforest. This realisation led Anderson to work with Landcare Australia to regenerate rainforest on the property. Farming has also taught the restaurateur a lot about the value of good-quality food. At large chain supermarkets, people expect to pay as little as two dollars a kilogram for vegetables.