About Us

PROUDLY 100% THAI-CANADIAN OWNED

Thai Roots Market is a Thai-Canadian-owned specialty food wholesaler and retailer located in Port Moody, British Columbia. Our mission is to spread the love of Thai foods by offering you authentic, top-quality products.

Because Thai Food is deeply personal to us...

We create an online marketplace for authentic Thai products to share with the world.

We know the secret of Thai ingredients.

We offer the best-tasting Thai products to our consumers. Our products are of the highest standards. Look out for the symbols: Vegan, Gluten-free, NON-GMO, MSG FREE.

We care about your experience.

Fast shipping, 30-day guarantee, and yes, 100% Authentic

MEET MILD NAPATSANAN, THAI ROOTS TRADING

Leadership

Mild Napatsanan knows a thing or two about the food business. After all, she’s successfully founded several of them. Mild’s mission is to share her love of Thai food with the world. She achieves this goal through her Thai Roots Trading import business, and her Wela Progressive Health Bar restaurant in North Vancouver’s Lonsdale Quay.

“Thai Roots got started purely because of the true love I have for Thai food. I am a foodie who loves exploring new foods wherever I go. But no matter where I go, I always come back to my roots, which is Thai food.

“I was so fascinated by the thought of seeing people enjoying the secret of our flavourful Thai food – which is the balance of five flavours: sour, sweet, spicy, salty and bitter – that it got me thinking about turning my passion into something to share with the rest of the world.”

Learning on the Job

Before Mild dived into the world of entrepreneurship, she worked a desk job at RBC bank. During regular trips back to Thailand, she saw the opportunity to turn her love of Thai food into a business. She started small, importing delicious coconut chips after discovering her network of friends loved them, and couldn’t find them in Canada.

“On my trips home, I would always bring back these amazing coconut chips to share with my friends. They loved them, and wanted to know where they could by them in Canada. I wasn’t able to find them, so it set the wheels in motion and I started putting my business plan together.

“It’s been a constant learning curve since then, but that isn’t a bad thing! The life of an entrepreneur is motivating me to improve myself every single day,” said Mild.

“Everyday is a new day for me. It motivates me to learn new things and do things differently and more efficiently than yesterday. For example, I’ve become way more sociable because of my business. I love to network and help people in my network as much as I can. The entrepreneurial community in Vancouver is a close-knit one. We all support each other as it will help us all to grow together.

“You also have to accept your time is precious. Every day is a potential work day, you have to get out of the ‘clock out at 5pm mentality’. Your responsibility becomes huge. You have to become a master of letting things go and moving on, otherwise it would just be too stressful to continue.”