Pailin "Pai" Chongchitnant, a native Thai, is a trained chef and currently lives in Vancouver, Canada. She is the creator of the YouTube channel Pailins Kitchen with almost 1.5 million subscribers, author of the cookbook Hot Thai Kitchen, and host of the TV series One World Kitchen on Gusto TV. Pai has focused on Thai cuisine while also giving her viewers and readers tips for a kind of fusion cooking, that is, cooking Thai recipes with locally available ingredients or local variations.