Going gluten-free in Bangkok? Hopes rise for a life after wheat.

Four painful nights into a visit home to Los Angeles, I sought answers to a years-long digestive mystery as one now does – by asking Dr. ChatGPT. After entering my medical history, it immediately suggested something I’d never considered, let alone taken seriously. Gluten.

My world quickly collapsed. No bread, no pizza, no bagels, no beer, no cookies, no pasta, no cake, no donuts, no pita. Not without further savaging my intestines with sleepless nights of intense suffering.

No problem, I thought. Bangkok has my back. After all, for a vegetarian of three decades, the city today is an easy place to live meatless. But wheatless? It turned out that gluten-free products are hard to find on supermarket shelves – and expensive.

“It really is a problem here, especially in Asia,” said Eric Chan, cofounder of Sarnies. “There’s no one catering to those types of…