Thai Noodle Bar

IN THE KITCHEN Chef-owner Jittipong Rakritikul, 33, began cooking when he was 8 years old with his grandmother in a small village in Phetchabun Province in central Thailand. After middle school, he earned a certificate in nutrition at the nearby Phitsanulok Vocational College, and, at 24, a degree in hospitality and commercial cookery in Sydney. Spending several years in the Australian city’s fashionable Bondi Beach neighborhood, he worked his way up to head chef at the ultra-modern Thai Riffic Noodle Bar. After moving to the Boston area in 2012, he cooked at a relative’s traditional Thai restaurant and put in a year at the Not Your Average Joe’s in Waltham. Wanting to open a Thai place with a modern sensibility and decor, he found his location in Quincy, and opened the Thai Noodle Bar just a few months ago, in March. “When we came to Boston, my wife and I dreamed to open a restaurant like Thai Riffic Noodle Bar,” he said. “I wanted to make a different Thai food-style restaurant, not o