From spice merchant to suki pioneer
Before opening a restaurant, our founder Sue Chai Sae Kuay was a wholesale spice merchant from Damnoen Saduak and a trusted cook at community merit-making events. His love of food led him to pursue his own interpretation of traditional Hainanese-style suki.
Two years in search of the right flavor
Every Sunday, after finishing his regular work, he spent the entire day in the kitchen developing fermented soybean paste, fermented bean curd dipping sauce and refining the recipe again and again. It took more than two years.
The day Ruenpetch almost never happened
After repeated attempts and disappointing feedback, he decided that one final tasting would determine whether he continued. A blind tasting revealed that the greatest challenge was not flavor, but earning trust for a name no one yet knew.
A beginning on New Phetchaburi Road
After observing the road for nearly a month, he leased two adjoining shophouses. The small restaurant was named Ruenpetch after the family's home and became the beginning of a story that continues today.
A story across three generations
From two shophouses to five, and from the first generation of guests to their children and grandchildren, Ruenpetch Suki has entered its third family generation while preserving the same flavors and intention.
The challenge was not only making food taste good.
It was helping people believe in a name they had never heard before.
the same flavors continue from generation to generation.