10 Vietnamese Dishes Perfect For Hot Summers

If you're not planning to go to the Tet Festival at the OC Fairgrounds this weekend, but still want to eat Vietnamese food, here are 10 of my essential Little Saigon eateries to try. This is the list I've given to co-workers, visiting relatives,...

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...

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...

My editor likes Little Sister Downtown an awful lot, you should probably know, and she has managed to eat there at least 15 times since it opened in late fall. Midday interview? Little Sister. Breakfast meeting? Little Sister. Supper with the...

It’s hot, ain’t it? You don’t feel like cooking and delivery pizza, which usually does the trick, isn’t exactly the refreshing meal you want right now. You could do sushi, of course, even a salad. But when you’re ready for something refreshing and...