“Pete” Pibul Pratumwon brings flavors of his homeland to Mahtomedi
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…
