The first time my family and I ate at Loak Toung, a small Thai restaurant in an off-the-beaten-path strip mall, we hadn’t officially moved to Tacoma yet. We were at a nearby Home Depot looking for something or other and decided to grab some lunch. It turned out, before we even had a home in Tacoma, we had a favorite restaurant.
Loak Toung is a literal mom-and-pop joint. In the kitchen, Maam Ray cooks up favorites from the Isan region, a part of Thailand that borders Laos and Cambodia, along with her daughter, Mook. In the front of the house, her husband, Jeremy Ray, who
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