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[0:09] hello Chanhassen and welcome back to the

[0:11] local i'm Samantha Deaggio economic

[0:13] development manager joining me this

[0:16] month is Na Montthazane and her daughter

[0:18] Christina Kirsy we're here at Nause Thai

[0:22] Restaurant na thank you so much for

[0:24] joining me you're welcome well on behalf

[0:26] of the city we did want to congratulate

[0:28] you this is your 25th year this year

[0:30] that's pretty awesome thank you for

[0:31] congratulations

[0:33] will you tell me a little bit about your

[0:34] restaurant and how you decided to start

[0:36] it i opened this in 1999 before I opened

[0:40] this I working with my mom my dad all my

[0:42] sister in the small restaurant in S paul

[0:45] they call the raid Thai after my dad

[0:48] passed away and everybody splitting out

[0:50] you know then one day my neighbor he

[0:53] came and knock on my door uh used to be

[0:55] the gray wall here then he tried to

[0:58] asking me to take over so many time then

[1:01] I decide to take it over quit my job so

[1:04] you decided to quit your job yeah and

[1:06] take over at this restaurant then we

[1:08] create my name is Na you know the N is

[1:12] come from the rice field oh interesting

[1:14] yes that's why we try to keep hard work

[1:17] every day i working six day a week

[1:20] penning 12 hour a day so not at the time

[1:23] you were working full-time and you had a

[1:25] family yes and how many kids did you

[1:27] have i had one you had your daughter

[1:29] Christina christina and Christina how

[1:31] old were you when your mom decided to

[1:33] take over this restaurant i was 13

[1:35] turning 14 13 turning 14 so it was kind

[1:38] of a family at at that time maybe a

[1:40] family business uh yeah I think I was

[1:43] like 14 typing up the menus like

[1:45] randomly just adding random things on

[1:47] paper so that's amazing thankful though

[1:49] my daughter she's the one that helping

[1:51] me a lot of everything yeah you know and

[1:54] that time she's very busy with all her

[1:56] sport and the high school my husband the

[1:59] want to have to take care of her to

[2:01] traveling for the soccer for Chesca you

[2:03] know my husband have to keep his job for

[2:07] the insurance sometime we have to stay

[2:09] late for both of us what makes your

[2:11] business unique or special i think it's

[2:13] the fact that we're familyowned and

[2:14] operated right like everybody that is

[2:18] here we treat like family so a majority

[2:21] of our staff is family right from the

[2:24] day we opened it was like aunts uncles

[2:26] that helped we've been here for so long

[2:28] that I think that we're a big part of

[2:29] the community too right we we know

[2:32] majority of our regulars by name or they

[2:35] know us and we know some regulars will

[2:38] walk in and they don't even need a menu

[2:40] like some of our staff will be like "Oh

[2:42] he wants chicken curry every time." So

[2:44] what is one of your bestselling products

[2:46] that you have here at the restaurant

[2:48] what' you say pat Thai and a pat park

[2:50] pork so what goes into pad thai if

[2:53] someone's never ordered pad thai before

[2:54] what is in pad thai pad thai they have

[2:56] egg noodle bean sprout green onion and

[3:01] your choice of meat either chicken pork

[3:03] shrimp tofu or vegetarian they can add

[3:05] make vegetable that's number one sale

[3:08] and the pot pock most likely all kind of

[3:11] vegetable you know it's serve with a

[3:14] brown sauce so now in these ingredients

[3:16] that you're using where do you source

[3:18] these ingredients from everything is

[3:20] authentic so like they most of our stuff

[3:22] is imported so like curry paste all that

[3:25] stuff comes from Thailand it's not like

[3:28] I think I was talking to you before like

[3:30] we you don't want curry paste from

[3:32] Wisconsin you know there's nothing wrong

[3:33] with Wisconsin but like you don't want

[3:34] curry paste made from Wisconsin so all

[3:36] of our stuff is sourced from

[3:39] authentically from Thailand Laos can you

[3:41] tell me a little bit more about the

[3:43] community and how you're able to give

[3:45] back to the community

[3:47] so my mom is probably one of the most

[3:49] giving people I've ever met we're in

[3:52] this area where it's like Minnetonka's

[3:54] here Chan's here Chaska's there Eden

[3:56] Prairie's there so like with like Chan

[3:58] High School like they're they're lockin

[4:00] she usually donates cream cheese wantons

[4:02] or or a gift certificate or something

[4:05] like that especially with like some of

[4:07] like the private schools they do like

[4:09] their fundraiser stuff like she's always

[4:12] one of the first ones to be willing to

[4:14] give a gift certificate for auction or

[4:16] anything like that and then like the

[4:18] kids sports and stuff I think we've

[4:21] given back to a few of the sports

[4:22] associations and stuff like that the

[4:24] community obviously supports us a lot

[4:26] that's how we got through co and stuff

[4:28] and so her goal has always been to just

[4:30] give back to the community and the kids

[4:32] that that are part of this community and

[4:34] what can the residents of Chanhassen do

[4:35] to support you come in and dine in like

[4:38] that's or take out right um we were just

[4:41] kind of talking

[4:42] about the world and what it is right now

[4:45] like it's hard right everybody it's hard

[4:47] for everybody and we get that and so

[4:49] like the community got us through COVID

[4:51] the community got us through recessions

[4:53] and all those things and like really

[4:55] just dine out and share with your

[4:57] neighbors if there's anybody that you

[5:00] know that's not been here or doesn't

[5:01] know about us or pick up takeout i mean

[5:04] every little bit helps let people know

[5:05] we're here we're in a little corner of

[5:08] Chanhassen chanhassen please remember

[5:10] being local is more than a zip code

[5:12] local is supporting local businesses

[5:15] until next time Chanhassen