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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

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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THRILLIST: Pho is everywhere in SD, but is most of it even good?

October 4, 2016 mgardiner

One day, pho in San Diego did not exist. The next day, seemingly, it was ubiquitous. San Diego experienced an influx of Vietnamese immigrants from the mid '70s and onward, resulting in the fifth-largest Vietnamese population in the country today, behind three other cities in … [Read more...]

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