Nope.
And what does “higher quality ingredients” have to do with anything, much less of the “much higher” variety?
We’re talking banh mi here. Would you pay $10 for a PB&J if it had, say, peanut butter ground by mortar and pestle from heirloom peanuts from the Incan empire? Artisan jelly? Spread with fine silverware?
I can’t tell if this is serious or sarcastic because there is a huge ingredient quality difference in a $10 banh mi vs a buy 2 get 1 free $3 banh mi from BMCC.
“We’re talking banh mi here. Would you pay $10 for a PB&J if it had, say, peanut butter ground by mortar and pestle from heirloom peanuts from the Incan empire? Artisan jelly? Spread with fine silverware?”
Absolutely. $10 sounds like a steal for PB&J given the ingredients listed.
I guess I’m totally lost. Better ingredients = more expensive as far as I know. Is that a myth of some sort? Is prime beef the same price as choice in reality?
ew, BMCC.
I kinda just don’t want an “artisanal” banh mi. Surely Little Sister is fantastic though. Somebody go and find out.
I can’t find their menu what’s different from MB?
Went tonight for dinner and had the best fucking beef tartare dish in they city but also had a crappy sweetbread dish.
The imperial rolls were well done but nothing special.
Highlight of the night was the ma la beef tartare with pear, pine nuts, a quail egg and melt bone marrow poured over the top. The beef had a nice heat that didn’t overpower and the melted bone marrow and quail egg gave it just the right richness.
The e-fu noodles had a nice chew and flavor but i was disappointed they replaced the crispy pork belly for a few slices of shredded pork.
I had high hopes for this next dish of crispy sweetbreads, ramen noodles, mushroom froth and shaved tendon. The sweetbreads were no longer crispy and the ramen noodles were extremely bland.
Vietnamese coffee flan was good but tasted more like a chocolate budino.
Wasn’t really impressed with Trencher. It’s near me and convenient but I haven’t returned after my first visit.
Where’s Alkiegourmand to insist he/she only eats banh mi made from heritage pork and garnished with veggies that were grown and fertilized with the night-soil of vegetarian virgins, all for the low price of $75 a sammie?
Idk how you got such good photos in that place, but I forgot I went to Little Sister a while back and forgot to post about it.
I was super sad that the DTLA locaition does not serve the signapore noodles, by far my favorite dish that Little Sister does, so I’ll have to go back to the MB one.
I guess people more in the know of Vietnamese food might hate this place, but to me, things taste better here than pretty much any other Vietnamese place. Ingredients taste better in the autumn rolls, sauce is delectable, and they’re huge.
https://www.instagram.com/p/_3adopk0FY/?taken-by=compulsiveaesthete
I thought the Bo Kho was delectable, made with a particular finesse. So viscous with all the oxtail, and tendon. Great with the crusty baguette, and liver butter. I thought it was a pretty solid dish. I took most of it home since it was HUGE, and my mother thought it was one of the best things she’d even had shrugs The dish also comes with rice if you can believe it, but I forgot to photograph it. It’s a ludicrously large dish to me for $22, it could feed 2-3 by itself probably depending upon appetite.
https://www.instagram.com/p/_3mQV3E0EX/?taken-by=compulsiveaesthete
https://www.instagram.com/p/_3mav3E0Ep/?taken-by=compulsiveaesthete
I guess my sweetbreads weren’t necessary super crispy either, but they were perfectly tender, and supremely tasty to my palette. Among the best sweetbreads I’ve ever had. In my experience it’s rare to find chefs that can make sweetbreads so creamy in texture. With the al dente ramen noodles, and the awesome onion-y sauce coating it, it was one of my favorite things I’ve eaten in recent memory actually, super addictive, despite being so rich.
https://www.instagram.com/p/_3mMR1k0ER/?taken-by=compulsiveaesthete
Also, I love the black egg, the house pickles, and the sambals, especially the green sambal there.
Black Egg
https://www.instagram.com/p/_3amOKE0Ff/?taken-by=compulsiveaesthete
Pickles
https://www.instagram.com/p/_3au2yk0Ft/?taken-by=compulsiveaesthete
If people can direct me where to get better versions of things like dry sweet bread ramen, I’d sure like to go try them out. But for now, in my ignorance, Little Sister tastes pretty damn fine. With some wine, including tax and tip the whole meal was only $75, and since I took half of it home, it would’ve only been $37/person with someone to join me. Been eating a lot in that price range lately, and haven’t really found anywhere better to my tastebuds in that range.
Disclaimer: I was starving and one of the joints (which shall remain nameless) on the same street was out of 2 things I wanted on the concise menu.
Little sister is a solid option in DTLA if you don’t order the Vietnamese dishes:
Amuse pickles:
Fried okra:
Grilled baby octopus
Steamed black cod (looking at the photos, it seems they’re really into scallion sprouts)
Dolce de leche:
Service was friendly, attentive; restaurant oddly not annoyingly loud. The cold station bar seating was evocative of Mozza, tho staffed by a young man who looked no older than 16 instead of Nancy. The staff was markedly less asshole-ish than those recently found at say, Otium.
3-ish course din for 2, one drink, after 3% BOH fee, and some tip: $70
Sounds like a fun game. Sugarfish? Chipotle? Botttega Louis? I guess Sugarfish has the most concise menu out of the bunch…
I vote Ricebar
I also vote Rice Bar, though I am not sure if they are open on Sunday nights. Would make a lot of sense.
Why no Vietnamese at LS?
Can you tell me where to get Autumn rolls of the same magnitude as theirs for cheaper please?
Of course you’re probably right. I’m just messing with TonyC.
He prefaced with he was starving then refused to give up the name. Sounded like a guilty pleasure he couldn’t publicly admit to without losing street cred 
Summer Rolls in Rosemead.
Charles would never let me walk out hungry like that.
[quote=“Aesthete, post:22, topic:1545”]
Why no Vietnamese at LS
[/quote]cuz SGV and Little Saigon exist and are accessible to me on a near daily basis. YMMV.
Dollar for dollar, Nem Nuong Khanh Hoa’s “spring” rolls can’t be beat.
And you can get an order of that fantastic banh beo to boot.
Where can you get imperial rolls, sugar cane shrimp, bo kho, etc… ? (Is bo kho usually made with oxtail + tendon?)
To me, ordering the rolls at LS is like an accent to the meal usually. If you want to eat some awesome rolls while noshing on sweetbread ramen, and salt and pepper lobster, etc… you can have them. Some people wouldn’t want to drive 30 miles out to pick up rolls after the meal I imagine.
I doubt anyone goes there JUST to eat nem nuong…
Seems to me like they deserve a convenience factor allowance of some kind.
Well maybe not, idk, but I like their bastardizations of various Asian foods I guess, despite usually not enjoying bastardizations. It seems like everything at LS tastes good to me.
Is there anywhere that makes Singapore noodles that rival theirs? (MB location only sadly).
Well, this place is surprisingly good. I too was a little skeptical but the flavors are pretty spot on except for the lobster leftover fried rice.
pho banh cuon with beef & tendon was superb. An instant favorite.
Vietnamese crepe. So good it makes you wonder why the traditional version doesn’t contain pork belly. Genius.
Lobster. Good but not great.
Lamb curry. Flavors in the curry are spot on. Tastes like the curry you would get with roti canai. Lamb shank was tender but oddly enough the curry flavors didn’t permeated the lamb.
They offered to make lobster fried rice for a $5 charge. Sounded great but it was so oily it was inedible. The only dud of the night.
Good stuff and I would definitely go back for that pork belly crepe and th beef rolls. I wish they used a little more of the Vietnamese mints. That would make the beef rolls and crepe pop even more.
