Sugar cane juice is known in Vietnamese as nước mía. I have a good memory of snagging a bag from a street vendor on a dream-like stroll through Hanoi in 2005. Since my initial...
Nuoc Mia Vien Tay is a rebranded Little Saigon sugar cane juice bar that dates to 1996, when Chuyen Nguyen and wife Thuy opened in a Westminster strip mall. I first wrote about Nuoc...
For years, I always thought I had to go to Little Saigon to score fresh-pressed, Vietnamese-style sugar cane juice. A petite woman named Huong has run Quang An Duong Chinese Herb Store in Rosemead’s...
Back when Chuyen Nguyen and wife Thuy opened Nuoc Mia Vien Tay in October 1996, their sugar cane juice store was located on the fringes of the Vietnamese community known as Little Saigon. According...
In the back of Ben Thanh Market, a legendary Ho Chi Minh City swap meet that dates to 1912, replacing a business called Les Halles Centrales that the French built in 1870, you’ll find...