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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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Seafood Los Angeles

Newport Seafood: Tussling with Lobsters Big Enough to Ride

Newport Seafood isn’t a good place to bring somebody who’s indecisive. The menu at the Vietnamese-influenced Chinese restaurant offers a whopping 131 options, with entire blocks of print devoted to elephant clam, frog and...
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Vietnamese Food San Francisco

Pagolac: Clamoring for Vietnamese Classics in the Tenderloin [CLOSED]

If Pagolac ended up closing in August 2005, it would have been entirely understandable, but all too tragic. That’s when Phuong Thi To, the Vietnamese restaurant’s longtime chef and brand new owner, was struck...
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Vietnamese Food Orange County

Com Tam Tran Quy Cap Bun Cha Ha Noi

It isn’t the first time this has happened, but last Friday, due to a lack of recognition involving foreign words, my hunt for new tastes led me to a restaurant that I’d already visited....
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