The full article originally appeared in White Bear Lake Magazine in March 2015 By Renee Stewart-Hester Before he was Pete, he called himself Pom Pom or Barry. And before that, his Thai mother named him Pibul. “I’m a man of many names,” he says. He’s also a man who learned to subsist on less than a dollar a day, to persist in climbing his way up the restaurant ranks and, on occasion, outlast immigration searches by altering his name. “I learned how to survive,” he says. At 4 years old, Pibul Pratumwon learned to carefully harvest vegetables from a community…

Pete has amazing attention to detail from the quality of the food to how he presents it to his guests. The process of working with Pete is as fun as the event was itself. His personality is a big part of why we like to work with Pete and recommend him to our friends. We have been his guests at multiple events and they were all outstanding!