They are now adding furniture and updating the look of the restaurant.
“We didn’t really have to renovate,” Thompson said. “We are just putting in a little T.L.C.”
The end result will be upscale, but still comfortable. And have a full bar.
“It will be some French, but also Asian,” she said. “Kind of funky and bohemian.”
The new owners are keeping on the staff of Southern Thai and many of their popular menu items will remain, including the fried chicken and Sriracha fried rice.
Thompson said they will bring in some other Asian dishes as well, like pho, roasted duck, Vietnamese crepes, Korean bulgogi and japchae, with stir-fried sweet potato noodles.
mond, Les was given a lot
of advice on how to get
noticed by the “new girl”
in town. A close cousin
told Les that if he wants
to win Debbie’s heart he
needs to learn how to
dance. He took his
have been happily danc-
Debbie touched the
She devoted her life to her
2 daughters and 6
“Vitamins,” she said.
Making Wilmington a home
Thompson moved to the U.S. from Vietnam when she was 22 years old. She joined her husband in Wilmington, who served as the last commander of the Ft. Fisher Air Force Station before it closed in 1988.
“Everything was La Choy soy sauce, La Choy water chestnut, La Choy bamboo shoot and rice from Uncle Ben,” she said of the Asian food scene at the time. While at the grocery store, she would always try to convince her husband to stock up on rice, before finally adjusting to the idea that the U.S. didn’t have a rice shortage.