Among the Vietnamese restaurants along 249, there are plenty of options for pho, bun, and com dishes, there’s even a place serving just a single dish, bun bo Hue. But there was only one choice when it came to banh…
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Oh Hai!
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With Duc Chuong II, I noted that in the two years I’ve worked in the area, there’s been quite a bit of turnover in the Hung Dong Market Center. (I’ll allow you exactly one “giggity” – but no more.) In the…
Duc Chuong II
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When I walked in, the eyes of the exclusively Vietnamese clientele alighted upon me briefly with perhaps a tinge of surprise, but then quickly returned to the bowls in front of them. I sat down, the prompt staff asked if…
Pho 45
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Shabby strip center establishments carry a lot of cachet when it comes to Vietnamese restaurants, usually because the mom and pop proprietors are running the places themselves, which in turn is the hallmark of authenticity. Pho 45 however is housed…
Pho Bien Hoa
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The great thing about eating pho is that you can disregard all the tenets of polite dining your mother so assiduously tried to inculcate. “Sit up straight,” she might intone, “Stop slurping!” But unless you want vermicelli noodles whipping and…