Viradee Pissara has been cooking since the age of 12 and used recipes handed down from her grandmother, mother and elder sisters when she ran a successful restaurant in Phuket, Thailand. It’s also where she met Bill Spradlin, her now husband, and the pair will soon open their first restaurant together right here in Orlando.
Sabai Thai Street Food will take over the old Dragon King space at 3333 S. Orange Ave. and feature those very same family recipes. But in addition to staples like pad thai, pad see ew and pad kee mao, the focused menu will also feature dishes unique to Sabai.
“We’ll serve a tom yum noodle soup, which will be our star dish,” Spradlin says. “It’s a dish Viradee learned the art of making from her older sister’s bustling street stall. We want to bring dishes to Orlando that you don’t often see, like our homemade Thai sausage, in addition to other rotating special dishes.”
Their son, Alex, who’s cooked at such local restaurants as Lim Ros in Maitland and Isan Zaap near Millenia Mall, will handle Sabai’s stir-fry dishes while mom handles everything else…