Last summer, Food & Wine magazine named St. Petersburg as “One of America’s Next Best Food Cities”, but editors maybe should’ve extended the search a few miles north to Pinellas Park. Within the county’s fourth-largest city are dozens and dozens of small, family-owned and operated restaurants that deliver striking and sometimes unfamiliar flavors from all corners of the globe.
Sap Sap Street Eats, run by Chef Johnathon Phaengvisay and several of his family members, is just one of many Southeast Asian restaurants that call the city of less than 60,000 people home. “Sap” means “delicious” in the Lao language—and Phaengvisay and company deliver exactly that.
Lao cuisine is famously aromatic and deliciously pungent, often characterized by the use of fresh herbs, chilies, seafood pastes and fermented fish sauces.
Sap Sap Street Eats is carryout only, but not for long
The newly-opened (or re-opened) Sap Sap Street Eats shares a carryout restaurant space with Sumo Hibachi Express at 6975 66th St. N, but packs a flavorful punch out of its communal kitchen…