Sawleaf Is Helping Vietnamese Food Cross Over Into the Mainstream

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • May 4, 2017
It was during my third visit to the second and newest location of Sawleaf that I noticed I was the only Asian person in a room of people slurping bowls of pho. Next to me, there was a twentysomething blonde in yoga clothes who was carefully...
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