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WORLD FARE: Go beyond the gateway drug at Phuong Nga 2

June 12, 2018 mgardiner

WORLD FARE: Go beyond the gateway drug at Phuong Nga 2

Let us consider the possibility that phở is just the “gateway drug” to Vietnamese cuisine. While that gateway theory (“go to bed with marijuana or beer and risk waking up with cocaine or heroin”) was discredited long ago, it appears to be on something of a reunion tour these … [Read more...]

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WORLD FARE: Hipster Vietnamese at Shank & Bone

May 21, 2018 mgardiner

WORLD FARE:  Hipster Vietnamese at Shank & Bone

There’ll never be a need to outlaw North Park. Long before then, the place will have sacrificed itself in a supernova of ironic circularity. Or, perhaps, it’ll be consumed in a black hole of its own devising. Until then, though, there could be no better location in town for Shank … [Read more...]

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WORLD FARE: A different bowl of noodles at Mi Quang Mien Trung

April 3, 2018 mgardiner

WORLD FARE:  A different bowl of noodles at Mi Quang Mien Trung

It’s easy to fall into the trap of ordering the same thing every time we’re at a particular kind of restaurant. A friend of mine calls it “ordering right.” I call it boring. For example, some might simply order phở if they’re at a Vietnamese restaurant. Well, there’s no phở on … [Read more...]

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CITYBEAT RESTAURANT GUIDE 2017: Off the Strip (San Diego’s best Asian food outside the Convoy District)

February 7, 2017 mgardiner

CITYBEAT RESTAURANT GUIDE 2017:  Off the Strip (San Diego’s best Asian food outside the Convoy District)

When most people think about Asian food in San Diego they think about the Convoy District. They’re certainly not all wrong to do so. San Diego doesn’t have a “Chinatown” or a “Little Tokyo” (though it does, supposedly, have a “Little Saigon”). In a sense, though, the Convoy is … [Read more...]

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RECIPE: Vietnamese Jewish Penicillin – Phở Ga

December 21, 2016 mgardiner

RECIPE:  Vietnamese Jewish Penicillin – Phở Ga

It is not for nothing Chicken Noodle Soup is called “Jewish Penicillin.” It is, perhaps, the prototypical “Jewish” food. Whether there is actually something medicinal about the stuff, it’s purely psychosomatic or it is just the comfort food factor is quite beside the point. It … [Read more...]

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