Hue Oi: Boiling Down to the Basics

You know what OC needs more of? Restaurants that serve banh beo, those button-cute mini Jell-O shots of steamed rice flour batter from the Hue region of Vietnam.  ] There is, of course, Quan Hop and its dressier bigger sister Quan Hy. And last...

It's the end of the month, so it's that time again: time to take stock of the restaurant openings and closing we observed here on the blog in June. There were quite a few debuts this month, and fewer shutters than usual. The list after the jump! ]...

No we haven't done this list yet. Yes, we did a 10 Essential Little Saigon Restaurants list a month ago, which included a lot of Westminster restaurants along with some from Garden Grove; but there are so many essential places inside the city that...

Step into almost any restaurant in Little Saigon, and you can order a big bowl of rice vermicelli noodles, or bun, topped with herbs, fried eggrolls and grilled shrimp or meat or everything but the kitchen sink, really, all meant to be splashed...

Like the guy at the bottom of a human pyramid, you’ll find Ngu Binh squished into the lower floor of a multilevel building full of Vietnamese shops. Unless you know it’s there, you won’t be able to tell it apart from the massage parlors and nail...