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, playamesa.com Chicken enchiladas suizas at Playa Mesa in Costa Mesa (Photo by Brad A. Johnson, Orange County Register/SCNG) Nem nuong cuon at Brodard You can find Vietnamese pork spring rolls, nem nuong cuon, at lots of restaurants throughout Little Saigon, and

many of them will be very good. But none will be better than Brodard’s. The entire menu is available, including vermicelli bowls, rice porridge, broken rice and more. Takeout: Yes. Delivery: No. 16105 Brookhurst St., Fountain Valley, 657-247-4401

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In late 2017, the family behind Brodard Restaurant, a mainstay of Orange County’s Little Saigon since the 1990s, moved its flagship restaurant from Garden Grove to a bigger space in a Fountain Valley shopping center. The new Brodard is a polished

to be seated. Teenagers in hoodies slouch over their phones; young kids use the sidewalk in front of the restaurant as a makeshift playground. Brodard is a happy, noisy place. Grilled pork spring rolls are the marquee dish from Brodard in Fountain

Nem nuong cuon 4life. Photo by Edwin Goei In the ebb and flow of Little Saigon, Brodard was the Rock of Gibraltar. Since Diane Dang and her daughters opened this restaurant in 1996 at the Mall of Fortune—behind a 99-Cent-Only store in an alleyway

unfamiliar, the main reason for Brodard’s success is its signature item, the nem nuong cuon. Brodard’s women singlehandedly invented it. It starts with lettuce, a slender piece of deep-fried egg-roll skin, cucumber, chives and nem nuong, a ruddy and springy

Going to Brodard without ordering one of its signature nem nuong cuon is like going to Disneyland and not riding Pirates of the Caribbean. I’ve described it before as “a spring roll to end all spring rolls,” and it is as much an inextricable part of

Brodard’s DNA as the pirate ride is to the Magic Kingdom—it will never, ever go away. So you can bet that even as Brodard is set to close its original restaurant to move to better digs in Fountain Valley later this year, the nem nuong cuon and its secret

Brodard has opened its highly anticipated and new 8,000-square-foot location in Fountain Valley, across from Mile Square Park. The new spot is meant to replace the original 2,000-square-foot space at Mall of Fortune, but that location remains open

 as of this writing. The family who own the restaurant also operates Brodard Chateau and Bamboo Bistro in Corona Del Mar. 16105 Brookhurst St, Fountain Valley, CA 92708 The new Bao-N-Baguette offers a menu of banh mi and baos including fusion banh mis

-853-1081, khansaaboc.com Nem nuong cuon, or grilled pork spring rolls, at Brodard in Westminster (Photo by Brad A. Johnson, Orange County Register/SCNG) 9. Taste the history of Little Saigon at Brodard in Fountain Valley. This is one of the most

next match-up in Round 2 pits the two winners from the uppity restaurants bracket.  And it comes to this. Out of four high-end, not-necessarily pho restaurants, Benley now goes head to head with Brodard Chateau and we determine which $9 bowl of pho goes

snipped of its tail and bean. Yet on this particular visit, the jalapeno slices seemed a bit dried-out, and there was no ngo gai, the saw-tooth herb that most Westernized Vietnamese restaurants seem to conveniently leave out. Brodard Chateau not only

if we did the math right, it should end at exactly the time that our annual Best Of Issue comes out. See what we did there? Genius, if we do say so ourselves. #99. Nem Nuong Cuon at Brodard This is the one item that has seeded Brodard's success and

made of pork or shrimp which isn't quite a sausage and not really SPAM, but a combo of the two. ] Anyone can attempt to construct a nem nuong cuon. Brodard isn't the only place that does it. But only Brodard can make the sauce that makes it sing

next match-up has Edwin revisiting the upscale branch of our bracket.  Brodard Chateau and S Vietnamese Fine Dining aren't necessarily pho joints as they are restaurants that serve Vietnamese and Vietnamese-inflected Western food.  Of course, with this

piano. A back-lit green wall emulates the lushness of rice paddies. Entrées average in the $25 range. The seared salmon with spinach and mushroom, by the way, is excellent.   Meanwhile, Brodard Chateau takes residence in a stately Victorian-style manor

Quan Mii, the Little Saigon restaurant that also bottles its own brand of sauces, has opened a second location in Fountain Valley in the same parking lot as Brodard. 16031 Brookhurst St, Fountain Valley, CA 92708 A restaurant called Cup Bowl Chao