Pho Night!
Pho is an awesome Vietnamese noodle soup, most commonly served with thinly sliced beef. For more information, you can check out one of my old posts from the time I dined at Tank Noodles in Chicago. Vietworldkitchen.com is a wonderful resource on Vietnamese food and cooking. There’s a very detailed recipe for making Pho and [...]
Paris broke my heart, but I found myself in Saigon
UPDATED: Banh Mi Saigon Bakery is now located at 198 Grand Street, near Mott Street. I was in Chinatown, New York City the other day and in the mood for some Vietnamese Subs! Therefore, I went to the usual Paris Sandwiches on Mott Street in hopes of treating myself to the Regular Pork Sub or [...]
Destination New York City: Paris Sandwich
Here is a great place for Banh Mi, Vietnamese subs, located right in New York City Chinatown. Paris Sandwich can be found at 113 Mott Street, between Canal St & Hester St. They opened up about a little over than a year ago, around December 2006. I have dined there multiple times and they have [...]
Happy Lunar New Year!
Happy Chinese New Year! Happy Tet!(It’s the Year of the Rat!!!) Here are links to some New Year recipes: Food Network (Chinese cuisine) Allrecipes.com (Chinese cuisine) Tet Sticky Rice Cakes: Banh Chung & Banh Tet (Vietnamese cuisine) VietWorldKitchen.com is the website of Andrea Nguyen, the author of the cookbook Into the Vietnamese Kitchen: Treasured Foodways, [...]
Destination Chicago: Tank Noodles
Right off the Argyle station stop on the red-line of the Chicago CTA, we come across what is known as New Chinatown (well, it’s more like Vietnamese-town, really). I love Vietnamese food. We were hungry, and there were so many Vietnamese restaurants on that street. But there… at the corner of Argyle and Broadway, we [...]
