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Recently we went to visit our friends at Pat's Place... if you hang out in the Sodermalm, Stockholm area maybe you've heard of this place, where magic meets Thai cuisine - absolutely one of our favorite restaurants in the city! Lots of flavor and lots of happiness, this is their recipe!
Together we shot a small editorial including: Dickies, Vans, Stan Ray, Mong Bag (their side project), we also had a little conversation with Pat and Jacob...check it out!
Tell us a little bit about yourselves..
We are Jacob and Pat, a married couple who own Pat’s Place and MONG. Pat is from Thailand
born in Phitsanulok, grew up in Bangkok, and Jacob is born and raised in Stockholm. For more
than ten years, we have partied together, traveled together, married each other, have kids together
and do business together.
What was the start of Pat's Place? What was the inspiration behind it?
Over years, Pat developed the idea to serve ‘different’ kind of thai food in the market in a special
way, and cool atmosphere and decorations, since Thai restaurants in Stockholm always serve the
same food in the same style. The inspiration is to be different, not only the food but the whole
idea of being free from all the rules. Our staffs have no uniform and we name the dishes what we
want. And we hope that our customers can feel the free spirits inside Pat’s Place.
Tell us more about the food and drinks you serve
We serve small dishes which we call ‘Thai Tapas’. All the food has traditional Thai taste, but in a
modern Tapas form. In Thai culture, we always share food and have many kinds of dishes in one
meal. For the drinks, our cocktails are developed from Thai spices. We also name them differently
by the names of films and music, for examples Starwars, Little Miss Sunshine and Bohemian
Rhapsody.
How did you create your dishes/recipes?
Pat: Most of our dishes are my childhood memories. My grandmother was the best cook in my
life and I remember the taste and create decent recipes based on them.
What inspired your interior space?
Pat: I am in love with vintage film posters. So to represent the Thainess in Pat’s Place, I chose
Thai film posters from the 70s, where it was a boom in Thai film industry before it was eaten out
by hollywood. The color tones and furniture are to make our customers feel comfortable, so we
use grey as wall color, wooden furniture, and cozy light bulbs designed by our friends, Tabo
design.
What are the top staff picks on the menu?
Starwars (Wingbeans mixed in coconut milk and chillipastes), Deep Impact (Thai spicy meatballs),
Tear of the tiger (Ribeye steaks marinated in our special sauce).
Well, all in the menu are good apart from these, of course.
Tell us a bit about the food culture in Thailand..
The whole country is driven by food. We make business over a meal. There is no family reunion
without a whole table full of food. There is no drinking with friends without food on the side. The
streetfood is all over the country. And there are millions kind of food, much more than what the
Thai restaurants in Europe serve.
Can you guys recommend some dishes from different areas in Thailand?
This is a very hard question since we have so much in every part, but I will try to make it short and
more cultural. From the north, I would say Khun Tok which are a set of food consisting of curry,
chilli paste, spicy sausage. From the middle, I would recommend fish from rivers, any kind of
cooking, since the lives are driven by all the rivers in the middle part. In the south, super spicy
curries are what to try. And in the northeastern, Somtum (papaya salad), Laab (spicy meat salad)
and grilled chicken are out of the world.
We know that the Thai community is quite big in Sweden, how do you guys view the thai
food culture in Sweden?
Most of the restaurants serve the same food, Pad Thai, red-green curry and such. However,
among Thai people, there are several that served real Thai tastes and also have Thai party to keep
the community alive. Plus, more and more, there are niche Thai restaurants arising (thanks to us
who made it first, haha)
In between the work with Pat's Place we know you guys have a parallel Bags-project, called MONG BAGS that's inspired by Thai heart culture - please tell us more about this project..
The concept is a walking gallery, to have supreme art more accessible, not only in the expensive
galleries or museum. Also, we also want to present the world the no-name artists with great
talents, to show that we as human being have much more to offer than the main streams.
MONG are the Bags of Art, made from paintings by a post-expressionist artist, Intorn, from Pat’s
hometown in Thailand. We transform his paintings into prints on SEAQUAL textile made from
recycles of the ocean trash. The bag size are big to be able to present the whole painting.
The word MONG also means ‘to look’ in Thai.
