LA Thai Street Food Pop-Up comes to town on Pacific Northwest Brewery Tour
Acclaimed LA based Pranom Thai is traveling through the Pacific Northwest with pop-ups at breweries from Bend, to Portland and Seattle.
Dream Kasestatad grew up in kitchens, he comes from four generations of family owned Thai restaurants. As an out of work actor living in LA, he decided to start the Pranom Thai street food Pop-Up from his apartment to make a little money about 10 years ago. He began by making bicycle deliveries of his Pad-Thai to friends, bars, and small businesses all over the city. One day while cooking in a parking lot an editor for LA Weekly Magazine spotted him and put him on the cover of the food section. Since then he has been featured at numerous festivals and events, and even filmed a pilot televsion show for Amazon Prime called “The Noodle Man” which is now streaming.
The Pranom pop-ups started out as a necessity, because Dream had no ambitions to open his own restaurant but did love cooking. Starting off with underground small events, he says “It took on a life if it’s own and I just got busy cooking with venues I never thought I had to do anything else in terms of getting a truck. My business allows me the freedom to travel and wok on my own terms.”
That freedom has allowed him to travel for fun, and over the next 2 weeks his adventures bring him to breweries in Oregon and Washington. “I have never been to Oregon. It’s been on my radar of states to cook at for years. It was the right time for me to head back to the west,” he says. At each pop-up, Dream figures out his dishes on the fly and doesn’t necessarily conform to any particular regional specificity or school of thought on where his cooking style originates. “I cook Thai dishes that are authentic to our families recipes. I don’t really know what I make until I get closer to the pop-ups or cities. The other part is ingredients and produces is what I have to sell is available at each city.”
Pranom has popped up at venues and parties at SXSW, Deep Blues Festival, Beal Street Festival, and at boutique hotels and even movie premieres, but his favorite places to serve his home cooking style Thai street food is at breweries. “Most breweries need food, and have to space, walk in, water, and cleaning facilities. Plus, beer and Thai food go great together!”
The tour through the Pacific Northwest begins next Tuesday in Bend before Dream rolls up to Seattle and then ends his local run in Portland for three nights and two different breweries. At each location he will begin serving at 4 or 5pm respectively, and offer one meat and one vegan option until he sells out. Most likely you can expect Khao Soi (curry noodle soup) Brisket Boat Noodle Soup, and Tom Kai Gai (coconut milk soup) depending on what kinds of quality ingredients Dream finds in each city.
Pranom Thai Pop-Up Schedule:
1/28 - 1/29 Aslan Brewing (Seattle taproom)
1/30 Lowercase Brewing (Seattle)
2/2 Threshold Brewing & Blending (Portland)
2/3 - 2/4 Ruse Brewing (Portland) for two days, with live music both days.
2/5 Great Notion Brewing Beaverton location 12pm til sold-out
