Posts Tagged ‘Vietnamese’

June 5, 2006 2

Phoreign (Sawtelle)

By in 12: Sawtelle

A new Vietnamese (Japanese owned?) restaurant was opened next to Blue Marlin and I finally tried it because someone told me their simmered pork is supposedly better than this. But I didn’t see it on the menu nor it looked like they’d have it!? The menu looked very generic and very simplified-for-American. The mushroom and […]

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March 17, 2006 2

Via Cafe (Chinatown)

By in 06: Downtown LA

Fried Tofu and Mushroom. LA’s Chinatown is a lot like Little Saigon really these days, with many good Pho and Vietnamese restaurants. In recent years it’s also invaded by hipsters. Via Cafe is such union. There’s always a crowd of hipster kids hanging outside, or admiring their friends’ paintings inside. It’s located next to the […]

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February 13, 2006 3

Pho (Silver Lake)

By in 05: Silver Lake + Echo Park

This signless restaurant in a mini-mall is one of the two vietnamese places in the hipster/Mexican neighborhood. While it’s very authentic and down to earth, the menu is very minimal. The cripsy egg vegetable crepe came ‘unwrapped’ and we made an ugly mess. ^^;; The beef are very tender, though the broth is a bit […]

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September 19, 2005 4

Vietnamese Restaurant (Monterey Park)

By in 01: San Gabriel

Sounds crazy but I forgot the name of the restaurant!!! O,O;;; (help here: it’s B1 floor at a plaza on Atlantic and Garvey, right next to a Shabu Shabu place). Unforgivable because I really enjoyed the food, one of the best and more authentic Vietnamese restaurants. Both the Grilled Pork set and Pork Ball & […]

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September 9, 2005 3

Vietnamese Sandwich

By in 01: San Gabriel

There are more and more Vietnamese sandwich places opening in San Gabriel valley (ex: Mr. Baguette, Paris Sandwich, etc). but I still habitually get take out from the vietnamese food booth at the cafeteria nearby my house, almost every Sunday (yet I couldn’t remember its name! ^^;;). And I habitually ordered the Vietnamese Sausage and […]

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