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Coconut Curried Snails?
Restaurant: Phong Dinh [1, 2] Location: 107 E Valley blvd, San Gabriel, Ca, 91776. (626) 307-8868 Date: December 29, 2013 Cuisine: Vietnamese Rating: Excellent! _ My Hedonist club hit up Phong Dinh...
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Eating Saigon – Hoa Tuc
Restaurant: Hoa Tuc Location: 74/7 Hai Ba Trung, Dist. 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Date: March 22, 2014 Cuisine: Vietnamese Rating: Fresh flavors _ For our first real dinner in Vietnam a friend of...
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Apocalypse Dhou
Restaurant: Ngoc Gia Trang Location: Mekon Delta Date: March 23, 2014 Cuisine: Vietnamese Rating: Crispy Elephant Ear fish! _ Hundreds of miles of snaking river was like a circuit cable plugged...
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Eating Hoi An – Brothers Cafe
Restaurant: Brother’s Cafe Location: Hoi An Date: March 24, 2014 Cuisine: Vietnamese Rating: Great setting, Great food _ We move on from Saigon to Hoi An, a small “ancient” city in the middle of...
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Oxymoron? – Upscale Street Food
Restaurant: Nha Hang Ngon Location: Hanoi Date: March 27, 2014 Cuisine: Vietnamese Rating: Great Upscale Street Food _ Our third city in Vietnam is bustling Hanoi — and I mean bustling. This city has...
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Wake up Hanoi
Restaurant: Hanoi Metrolpole Location: Hanoi Date: March 28, 2014 Cuisine: International Rating: Much better than at the Hilton _ Moving north through the DMV into Hanoi we come to rest at the Sofitel...
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Seasons of Hanoi
Restaurant: Seasons of Hanoi Location: Hanoi Date: March 28, 2014 Cuisine: Vietnamese Rating: Lovely _ Hanoi has very good food. Our guide the first day took us to this upscale location. Hanoi is...
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Eating Hanoi – Club Opera
Restaurant: Club Opera Location: Hanoi Date: March 28, 2014 Cuisine: Vietnamese Rating: Upscale take _ Our second night in Hanoi brought us (accidentally) to an even more upscale take on Vietnamese...
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Eating Hanoi – Madame Hien
Restaurant: Madame Hien Location: Hanoi Date: March 29, 2014 Cuisine: Vietnamese Rating: Excellent neighborhood Italian _ For our final dinner in Vietnam we head out to another “high end street food”...
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Eating Hanoi – Green Tangerine
Restaurant: Green Tangerine Location: Hanoi Date: March 30, 2014 Cuisine: Vietnamese Rating: A tad too experimental _ Our final meal in Vietnam. Cry. Green Tangerine serves what its website calls...
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Cassia – Vietnamese Reinterpreted
Restaurant: Cassia Location: 1314 7th St, Santa Monica, CA 90401. (310) 393-6699 Date: July 7, 2015 Cuisine: French Vietnamese Brasserie Rating: really tasty _ My friend Liz Lee of Sage Society...
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Viet Noodle Bar
Restaurant: Viet Noodle Bar Location: 3221 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica, CA90405. (424) 299 6360 Date: August 18, 2015 Cuisine: Vietnamese Rating: Good, but not typical _ Santa Monica has had a lot of...
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Pho Time – Nong La
Restaurant: Nong La Location: 2055 Sawtelle Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90025. (310) 268-1881 Date: November 13, 2015 Cuisine: Vietnamese Rating: Tasty _ Nong La is a Vietnamese cafe located right next to...
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Quick Eats – Pho 2000
Restaurant: Pho 2000 Location: 215 N Western Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90004. (323) 461-5845 Date: March 18, 2016 Cuisine: Vietnamese Pho Rating: A lot like Vietnam _ I was in Korea Town and looking for a...
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Power of a Simbal
Restaurant: Simbal Location: 319 E 2nd St Suite 202, Los Angeles, CA 90012. (213) 626-0244 Date: October 28, 2016 Cuisine: Modern Vietnamese Rating: Great subtle Southeast Asian flavors _ In the last...
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Quick Eats – Little Sister
Restaurant: Little Sister Location: 523 W 7th St, Los Angeles, CA 90017. (213) 628-3146 Date: October 27, 2016 Cuisine: Modern Vietnamese Rating: Tasty _ As I mentioned in my review of Simbal LA seems...
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Phong Dinh Fun
Restaurant: Phong Dinh [1, 2, 3, 4] Location: 107 E Valley blvd, San Gabriel, Ca, 91776. (626) 307-8868 Date: December 18, 2016 Cuisine: Vietnamese Rating: Excellent! _ My Hedonist club has hit up...
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Quick Eats – Le Saigon
Restaurant: Le Saigon Location: 11611 Santa Monica Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90025. Phone number (310) 312-2929 Date: August 27, 2017 Cuisine: Vietnamese Rating: Decent Pho _ Westside Vietnamese. Hmmm....
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Quick Eats – Pho Cafe
Restaurant: Pho Cafe Location:2841 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026 Date: February 2, 2018 Cuisine: Vietnamese Rating: Excellent Pho _ After our bike ride (and Bicycle Cafe stop) Sebastian and I went...
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Orange Afternoon — Garlic & Chives
Restaurant: Garlic & Chives Location: 9892 Westminster Blvd #311, Garden Grove, CA 92844. (714) 591-5196 Date: June 23, 2018 Cuisine: Vietnamese Rating: Old School Vietnamese _ Fred and Andrew T...
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