She hadn't been there since I took her with the kids...
She was curious to try this:
My sis and I both had the lemongrass iced tea, which was refreshing on this warm summer day. The guys chose to skip out on a drink for this meal since we would be having drinks close by at Fathom afterwards.
Summer rolls with two types of dipping sauce, sweet and sour and peanut.
More appetizers - two types of salads: naked shrimp (seen here in a previous post) and ginger pork (no solo shot but we last enjoyed it nearly three year ago), and the Nam Khao Tod (fried rice salad with pork sausage).
This shrimp salad was refreshing and not as spicy as the version we had before, thankfully so. The flavors were clean and bright. Everyone enjoyed this. The ginger pork was also a favorite of the table. The ginger slivers were so fresh. We pretty much finished everything before the fish came.
The nam khao tod was also a winner. I ordered it at the last minute, wanting to compare it to the nam khao dishes I've had at other places in the past. The rice here had a kick! They must have put chili sauce in the rice balls before they fried them because there was definitely some spice in there. The nam khao had so much flavor and texture. The sausage was also delicious and different from the Issan sausage appetizer.
Sadly, the rock cod was a let down (this was the $35 price point since we were a group of four). First of all, it seemed the same size as the $25 one we had for our anniversary. Also, the fish wasn't as "dressed" as the previous version either. The sauteed vegetables were sparse in comparison. The fried Thai herbs seemed to be mostly kaffir lime leaves and very little basil (the leaves are thicker and not really edible or pleasant to eat). It also didn't have as much meat. I felt kind of bad because I had hyped this fish to my sister and her boyfriend.
A few minutes away on Shelter Island was our next stop...
We haven't been here in a while and my sister's BF was interested. My sis, not so much since she isn't a beer drinker, but she did get a beer anyways.
Comic Con weekend was still happening.
Many great choices available...
The beers we ordered...
Coronado Mermaid Red for sister's BF, the Societe Black Lager for Bert and for my sis and I, the Maui Mango Wheat...
Of the three, I liked mine the best followed by the black lager. The mango wheat was pretty light but I couldn't handle all that especially after having had that dinner. So my sis and I barely finished 1/4 of our drinks but our respective others helped us "finish" the beers. I sure wish they had taster flights here. I can handle small tastes of something rather than one big ass glass.
The place was getting crowded but before we left...
I noticed these plaques above the window next to us...These were plaques for submarines, in keeping with the bar's theme. One of them, the USS Permit was a ship in which my father served from 1980-1983. I sent him this photo and he confirmed that yes, this was his same ship, a nuclear sub to be more exact, that he worked on; in fact, we had the same plaque on his US Navy wall at my parents' house.
When I called him later that evening, he told me that he joined the US Navy the day after this major submarine accident. He mentioned the USS Thresher. I zoomed in on my photo and saw that the plaque on the far left, with the sharks is the emblem for the USS Thresher (SSN-593). Sadly, this submarine sank on April 10, 1963. My dad told me that he joined the US Navy the day after the Thresher was lost. I had never heard this story before. He remembered all of the details of the Thresher tragedy, what had happened, where it happened, how many people died, etc... The loss of the Thresher for it's time, was and still is considered one of the Navy's worst tragedies at sea. I knew my father got paid "hazard pay" for working on a sub, but after watching the short documentary below and reading up on the Thresher accident, didn't realize how extremely dangerous it was to work below the sea's surface.
Documentary about the USS Thresher:
Vintage footage of the USS Permit off the coast of San Diego, the ship (nuclear sub) that my father served in.
Previous visit to Supannee:
July 2017 (for our anniversary)
Previous visit to Fathom Bistro:
March 2013
It was cool to hear a bit of seafaring history from my dad. I had no idea about the Thresher. The USS Permit, which is numbered after the Thresher, soon became the lead ship of her class of submarine after the disaster. All of these years, I never questioned my dad about his line of work in the navy. When he joined, it was the height of the Cold War and his first submarine was the USS Menhaden (which was one of Admiral Nimitz's ships in WWII). He served on other submarines since then and the Permit was his last ship before he retired in 1985. I need to seriously interview my dad (video record it even) and conduct an oral history of sorts so that his memories of his service as well as his life won't be forgotten.
8 comments:
Nice bit of history CC! Especially since there are some personal ties!
Yes indeed Kirk! It was really cool to learn something new from my dad.
I love how GREEN your tea is! Nice! The salads you got look awesome, I really need to try them. Too bad about the fish! What a letdown!
Interviewing your dad sounds like a great idea! It’ll preserve those memories for years to come for your self and the possible grandkids in the future.
Yes, the color was quite vivid Mary! I would get that rice salad again, OMG it was that good. Man, I felt bad about the fish. I've had it before, but I really wanted my sis and her BF to be impresssed. :(
I will have do to a proper oral history with my dad soon.
Wow, that is interesting! Every once in a while my parents will mention something some tidbit about themselves or my grandparents that I hadn't heard my entire life. It's so crazy and weird to not hear about it sooner.
Yes it was Kirbie. Sometimes when I ask my dad, how come we never knew about something, he would say, "You never asked"...(like we would even know to ask certain things, ha ha).
Dang, every time I read about Thai food, I get jealously hungry. Wish Dennis had the cravings like I do... I met the owner of Fathom once, super nice guy, have always wondered about his little spot on the pier. The navy ship and history is cool. I wish my mom lived closer to tell me stories of stuff.
THIS is the spot you have to try, Supannee Maybe next time you and Dennis are in Point Loma, you can do a two-fer...Thai food, then beer. :)
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