Best thing I ate: Caramelized pork belly in a clay pot in Little Saigon

Critic Brad A. Johnson can’t get enough of this classic Vietnamese dish, which he says is fatty and salty and sweet and pungent all at once.
Brad A. Johnson • Orange County Register • October 9, 2019
You can smell the burnt caramel as soon as you walk through the front door of Thanh Do in Little Saigon. It is a heady incense of palm sugar, coconut water and fish sauce.  Although they serve just about every conceivable dish that you might come...
The full article can be read on the Orange County Register website.

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