Pla lard prig, deep-fried snapper, at Siam Cafe.
In the twenty years since I started going to Siam Cafe on McCall Street in Tusculum almost nothing has changed. There's still a cafeteria-style set-up of steam table options for takeout and a western-style dining room and a Thai-style dining room. The latticework walls that divide up the three spaces are still in place. The wall paneling is the same. Â
In fact, only the knick knacks seem different since my father and I used to eat there in the 1980s. Except that in the interval, the food quality plummeted, so much so that I declined to review it on a visit in the mid-1990s.
As casual dinners go, it was a home run — old friends we cherish and rarely see, and a once-familiar place that's worth revisiting.
