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Vietnamese

Restaurant Sign San Jose

Vung Tau: Savoring the Flavors of Southern Vietnam

In “Highlander,” the 1986 movie starring Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery, the writers made it very clear “There can be only one.” However, that adage doesn’t hold true in the case of Little Saigon....
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Restaurant Sign Las Vegas

Bosa 1: Channeling Little Saigon in Las Vegas Chinatown [CLOSED]

Just because we were in town to eat prodigious amounts of pork at All-Star Cochon didn’t preclude us from having lunch mere hours before the Super Bowl of pork. We drove to Vegas from...
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Vietnamese Food Los Angeles

Nem Nuong Khanh Hoa Sour Sausage

This central Vietnamese restaurant has been open for five years in an Alhambra strip mall, and as we later learned, garnered praise from the likes of Noodle Whore and Jonathan Gold. Nem Nuong Khanh...
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Vietnamese Food Los Angeles

Good Girl Dinette Vietnamese Pork Confit [CLOSED]

Good Girl Dinette could easily call their Vietnamese Pork Confit ($11) a pepper pot. That seasoning dominates the ramekin’s porcine proceedings so thoroughly. Still, anytime ground pork cooks in its own juices, I have...
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Banh Mi Orange County

AnQi Ham Banh Mi

The An Family is best known for their branches of Crustacean in Beverly Hills and San Francisco, but at the end of 2009, matriarch Helene and her daughters expanded beyond Vietnamese fine dining with...
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Banh Mi Los Angeles

Red Medicine Banh Mi [CLOSED]

Red Medicine certainly had the pedigree and concept to generate plenty of interest, with Chef Jordan Kahn in the kitchen and a menu that reads like a next-gen Slanted Door. My first dinner there...
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