Vua Oc Is the Latest Snail Eatery to Open in Little Saigon

Hello Kitty Grand Cafe has opened at the Irvine Spectrum. It is the brick-and-mortar upgrade to the original Hello Kitty pop-up at the Spectrum, which closed in January. The new venue includes a reservation-only private room called The Bow Room...

Spain may have its tapas bars and Japan its izakayas, but in Vietnam, there are quán ôcs. Literal translation: snail eateries. Quán ôcs are often informal street-side stalls with nothing more than plastic chairs and cooks slaving over...

Here we are at the Mall of Fortune, the vast strip mall that many people consider the heart of Vietnamese Garden Grove. There are sprawling noodle complexes, a crowded bakery and a seven-courses-of-beef restaurant that seems as large as a soccer...

When I say the parking lot in front of Tra House is a mess, I don't mean that figuratively. Most of the painted lines that separate one space from the next are either faded or nonexistent, and if you manage to find an empty spot in the anarchic...

The first act of a meal at Noma passes as a dream; rich sea snail bouillon sipped from its herb-smeared shell fading into a field of empty cockleshells in which two or three contain the sweet meat; a mussel constructed from the chewy lips of half...