{"id":376,"date":"2021-08-16T02:46:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T02:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/adeepdive\/?p=376"},"modified":"2021-09-08T00:08:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T00:08:52","slug":"my-favorite-vietnamese-restaurants-in-little-saigon-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/adeepdive\/2021\/08\/16\/my-favorite-vietnamese-restaurants-in-little-saigon-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Vietnamese Restaurants in Little Saigon, CA"},"content":{"rendered":"

It may come as a surprise to hear me say that I don’t particularly like Vietnamese food, despite being Vietnamese. There are however, a few dishes, at a few places, that do make the cut. Little Saigon and surrounding area is home to the largest population of Viet people outside of Vietnam so I’d be willing to bet this list includes some of the best Viet food outside of Vietnam. I’ll start with everyone’s favorite dish:<\/p>\n

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Pho:\u00a0Ph\u1edf V\u00e8 D\u1ea7y D\u00f2n with quail egg at\u00a0Pho Quang Trung. I prefer the one on Westminster over the one on Bolsa. Something about the cuts of meat, they do it very right here. They’re usually out of quail egg unless you’re early.<\/p>\n

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Nuoc Mia: The Original Cococaine with kumquat at Cococaine. Right next to OK water, this store keeps true to it’s FOB heritage by being half fruit market, half juice store with amazing taste in EDM music. They’re usually out of kumquat… our community has some supply chain issues.<\/p>\n

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Bo Luc Lac (aka shaken beef): SALTADO at The Vox Kitchen. They do Viet modern fusion really well.<\/p>\n

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Lobster Noodles: Newport Special Lobster at\u00a0Tan Cang Newport Seafood. A staple at weddings but if you have a family to feed I bet they’d love this.<\/p>\n

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Clams at Kim Su: I can pretty much finish a plate of these my own and I use the rice to soak up the sauce. As a kid this was my favorite food, my cousins and I would stack clam shells practically to the ceiling we ate so much.<\/p>\n

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Salmon with Hollandaise sauce at Song Long: You know why we make such good bread and sandwiches? Because we were colonized by the French. And we got this dish out of it too.<\/p>\n

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Spring Rolls at Brodard: Honestly I’m not the biggest fan of spring rolls but this restaurant is a staple for this iconic food so it gets a spot on the list as well. Don’t take it to go, it looks like something that can be packed for later but once it gets soggy the magic is gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It may come as a surprise to hear me say that I don’t particularly like Vietnamese food, despite being Vietnamese. There are however, a few dishes, at a few places, that do make the cut. Little Saigon and surrounding area is home to the largest population of Viet people outside of Vietnam so I’d be … Continue reading My Favorite Vietnamese Restaurants in Little Saigon, CA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9731,"featured_media":377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/adeepdive\/files\/2021\/08\/o.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/adeepdive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/adeepdive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/adeepdive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/adeepdive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9731"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/adeepdive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/adeepdive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/adeepdive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/adeepdive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/adeepdive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/adeepdive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/adeepdive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}