10 Essential Little Saigon Restaurants

In creating this list, I asked myself this question: Where would I take out-of-town visitors to explore the wonders of our Little Saigon? And what would I have them eat? In all honesty, I came up with more than you see below. My notepad is filled...

Walk anywhere in Little Saigon these days, and you can throw a chopstick and hit a pho restaurant. In fact, pho has so permeated our local food culture that every city outside of our county’s Vietnamese enclave has at least one restaurant serving...

We all know pho tastes great when it’s cold. But it’s too darn hot right now for pho. Fortunately Vietnamese cuisine has its share of dishes and desserts tailor made for summer. Here’s a few of this critic’s favorites and where to get them in...

Orange County’s Little Saigon isn’t so little anymore. It is a sprawling wonderland of food in Westminster, Fountain Valley and Garden Grove that grows bigger by the minute. You could eat Vietnamese food every day for a year and still not keep up...

Quán Vịt Vịt Vịt    Quán Mii    Destination Seafood House    Pho Ga Ly Thuong Kiet    Thanh Do    Pho Hong Long    Pickle Banh Mi   

Nowhere else will you find xiu mai bánh mì. Photo by Edwin Goei Decades ago, I discovered the foodstuff that has made me return to Little Saigon week after week: the bánh mì sandwich. It is nothing short of a miracle. And I’m not being hyperbolic...