| At San Jose’s House of Siam, a father explains the joy of Thai food to his children MY DAD had to give up a few things when he moved from Bangkok to Barstow at the age of 12. Some were bearable sacrifices, like giving up the kind of intense humidity that makes the air more drinkable than breathable. But some were not so good, like realizing one day, 40 years later, that his three half-Thai adult children knew more about tortellini than they did about tom yam. So, in a recent attempt to right some of those wrongs in our culinary upbringing, my dad took us to dinner at his local favorite, San Jose’s House of Siam, and promised an authentic Thai dinner More » | 
