Yum as a method. In Thai food, yum (ยำ) is a category of dishes built around the act of mixing — bringing ingredients, textures and flavors together, then adjusting until they become something balanced and alive. Sweet, sour, spicy, salty, savory: there is no single formula.

For Tom Yum Week, we take yum as a way of working. Restaurants, artists, dishes, stories, materials and audiences come together, mix, respond to one another and become something new. The city becomes one big experiment in what can happen when everything enters the same bowl.