#82. Com Tam at Com Tam Tran Quy Cap

What's in a Name? Finding the real Com Tam Tran Quy Cap Little Saigon's Bolsa Avenue is littered with restaurants like Com Tam Tran Quy Cap—eateries that seem genetically identical to each other. Menus feature the common mainstays of pho, broken...

If you're familiar with the venerable Com Tam Thuan Kieu in Little Saigon, you'll hardly recognize the new Thuan Kieu Noodle & Grill in Irvine. It's owned by some part of the original the family, connected by its shared recipes; but the new place...

I have a friend named Mike (who among us doesn't have a friend named Mike). Although his life doesn't revolve around food as much as mine does (read: he's not a food blogger), our tastes are often parallel. It was more than a decade ago (in...

We've made a list of great sandwiches, even devoted an entire issue of our dead tree edition to notable noodle dishes, but what about rice? We often take it for granted because, well, because it's rice. But rice is essential, rice is good, rice is...

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...