There are few places that are destination worthy in that valley for us and this is one of them. We’ve been making up excuses to go up to see family on the weekends just so that we can go and pig out there. byob if you’re chill… Sure there are places that we’ve all known and loved for pho and banh mi in the valley but this one is quite different… total family operation, wonderful people and great food.
They do the standards fairly well (bun, pho, rolls) but they have dishes that we don’t generally find so we’ve just been working through that menu slowly but everything is wonderful. There are things not pictured that are quite popular like fried duck (sorry had to jack from yelp pics, only this one though)
favorite entre has to be this heavily crusted, whole fried trout with a very rich butter garlic sauce
the bun bo hue (need to ask about blood cake next time)
always have to finish with the 3 color if there’s any space left at all
KTLA gets me. This place has been kind of mobbed since they were featured on this segment. We actually had to wait for a table yesterday, which is unheard of.
tried the Wonton egg noodle soup which was lovely. Won a Ton
They’re trying to whiten up certain things because of the big influx of white people, they took chilis out of the rice crepe dressing for example, naturally i still asked for them and encouraged them to stop doing that nonsense.
oh also something else popped up on my radar there while eating… a family had a spicy goat soup with turnips in a hot pot. im going to need me summadat!
The really sweet 20-something guy who was waiting on us knew we were 1st timers. When we ordered it he told us many people “unfamiliar” with the dish (meaning white folks) don’t care for it, so I assume he was trying to make it more palatable. He knows us now.
