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

WBL 4664 3.15 ThaiChef EJD 031

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 garden. He understood how to gently pick basil leaves, bringing them back to his mother, who would cook for her six children and husband, all living in a two-bedroom duplex on a military compound where his parents worked in Saraburi, Thailand.

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Pibul “Pete” Pratumwon Recipes

Healthy Lettuce Wrap
Serves 8

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 lb. ground pork
  • 1/2 lb. shrimp, finely chopped
  • 1/4 cup sweet onion, diced
  • 2-3 cloves garlic, minced
  • 2-3 T. hoisin sauce
  • 3 T. good soy sauce
  • 2 T. rice wine vinegar
  • 1 T. fresh ginger, finely chopped
  • 1-2 tsp. hot sauce (Sriracha)
  • 8 oz. water chestnuts, drained and medium chopped
  • 3-4 T. cooking oil
  • 4 green onion, thinly sliced white part
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • 1-2 head(s) of lettuce (baby romaine preferred)

Instructions:

Heat cooking oil in the saucepan over medium-high heat. Brown ground pork and shrimp until no longer pink. Drain excess juice. Turn the meat mixture back in the same saucepan, stir in garlic, onion, hoisin sauce, soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, ginger and Sriracha sauce. Cook until onions are translucent. Stir in the remaining ingredients and season with salt and pepper.

To serve, spoon several spoonfuls of mixture into the center of a lettuce leaf and wrap taco-style.

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I was born and started cooking as a boy in Thailand. I have lived in the United States for many years now but I still love to cook my favorite dishes, with my own updated touches, from my boyhood home. I cook for engagement parties, company events and dinner parties in your home or your kitchen of choice. You will enjoy great food and be entertained whether I do all of the cooking or if you learn and cook with me.

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  • Pibul (Pete) Pratumwon
  • Mahtomedi, Minnesota (MN)
  • (651) 270-6372

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