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Posted on 04/29/2015 2:38:07 PM PDT by EveningStar
Vietnamese foodie guide: Critic Brad A. Johnson dishes about the 25 best things to eat in Little Saigon
The scent of Little Saigon hits me in the face.
An intoxicating perfume of jackfruit and bananas and the vanilla-y scent of pandanus leaves wraps itself around me in a warm, tight embrace. It’s a sunny Friday afternoon, and the line to purchase something cold and sweet at Thach Che Hien Khanh in Garden Grove stretches out the front door and down the sidewalk, past a vendor of exotic fruits and knickknacks — chopsticks, paper lanterns, plastic Buddhas, various figurines of the lunar zodiac. Incense from a nearby shop muscles itself into the mix. As I get closer to the dessert counter, I see dozens of wildly colorful puddings and cakes and sheet-pans filled with fluorescent mounds of sticky rice ...
Here are the 25 best things I’ve found to eat — and then some — in Little Saigon ...
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Korean cooking show explores the exotic dish of Chicken Fried Steak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9Q0kPOlBt0
How eating dog became big business in Vietnam
Every year, hundreds of thousands of pets are snatched in Thailand, then smuggled into Vietnam, destined for Hanoi’s top restaurants and street stalls. Demand for dogmeat is so high that supply has become a highly lucrative – and brutal – black market.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/27/eating-dog-vietnam-thailand-kate-hodal
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“It isn’t a well known fact that quite a few Vietnamese enjoy the consumption of dog meat, but what’s even more surprising is a festival is held annually where beer is served along with poor, innocent dogs.
Pictures of the cooked and prepared canines have been circulating the internet portraying the way the dog meat is served. Also posted are pictures of people enjoying beer from the festival, ignoring the cooked dogs around them.
Dog meat is believed to bring good fortune in Vietnamese culture, and has been compared to the consumption of chicken or pork. It is also believed to increase a male’s sex drive, which results in groups of male customers spending their evenings enjoying a plate of dog meat along with alcohol.
It has been reported that the soaring economy has resulted in the establishment of more dog restaurants in Hanoi, and has consequently led to more dognappers, as 20 kg (44 lb) of dog can sell for more than $100 US. ...”
http://ax3battery.com/2012/07/02/mind-blown-mondays-dogs-served-in-vietnamese-beer-festival/
Pand-anus?
Of course, this reminds me that tomorrow, April 30, 2015, is the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon to the Communists on April 30, 1975.
Yum! I love Vietnamese food. In DC there are dozens of hole in the wall eateries with dishes from all over the world. Find a local neighborhood of immigrants and you’ll eat well if you are willing to stray off the beaten path.
Pho — with thinly sliced eye round.
Cold BBQ pork spring roll
Cafe Suda
Cigar from the Cigar shop next door.
My lunch for 5 years at the Vietnamese Restaurant on Clairemont Mesa BLVD near the 805 in the mall with Ethan Allen Furniture.
Pho >> Thai food.
I love that the article is really recent! Thanks!
I am not like you. I do not like Vietnamese foods. They put fresh mint in just about everything they cook including things like beef stew and sandwiches. I do not want to taste mint in beef stew or sandwiches.
I guess you and Vietnamese food were just not mint to be. :)
Send me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to be free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Just tell them to be sure to bring all their recipes with them.
‘Love pho ga.
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Little Saigon is located in Westminister in between the San Diego and Garden Grove freeways. Excellent food with coffee and condensed milk from the war days. Here’s a nice vid with a catchy song. Please try to get to Westminister if you are in the area to get excellent Vietnamese food. Beware: the locals like to sniffle and sniffle. Its’ rude but part of the culture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IGxH_cfl10&spfreload=10
Besides the SPAM.
good question
A lot of “American” products over there, are made over there under license and can often be very different from the original I have seen mentioned in Youtube videos
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