Article: Dining Thai-ed and true Lemon Grass offers authentic fare from owner's homeland

SANDRA SPEAKMAN TRADED in her pre-med aspirations for spicy food combinations. Today, as a co-owner of Lemon Grass Thai Restaurant in Lancaster, she's treating people to good food. For the past four years, Speakman, 28, a former pre-med student at Kutztown University, has co-owned the restaurant with her mom, Vatharee Speakman, and the chef, Maneerat McKinnell. "It's a really fun experience, seeing people happy when they come in here and say the food is wonderful," Speakman says. A native of Bangkok, Thailand, Speakman moved to Reading when she was 13. She is in the process of relocating to Lancaster. At Kutztown, she started out as pre-med but later changed her major to computer science. ...

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