Orange County Vietnamese Restaurant Guide

A guide to mostly good Vietnamese restaurants in Orange County, California.

Little Saigon Restaurant Directory

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Cheap $1-$5 | Low Average $6-$8 | High Average $9-$11 | Pricey $12 and up

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Bakery/Ban Pate Chaud – Vietnamese bakeries french style pastries like ban pate chaud, ban trai cai
Banh Beo – Little circles of rice cakes topped with shredded shrimp, scallions, fried pork skin.
Banh Hoi – Vermicilli rice square sheets served with meat, fried scallions.
Banh Mi – Sandwiches on French baguette rolls with meat, cilantro, carrots. Akin to the American hamburger.
Banh Xeo – Thin pancake like crepe of yellow rice flour, pork, shrimp, beansprouts, and salad.
Banh Cuon – Thin rice sheets rolled around ground pork, mushroom, and onion.
Bo 7 Mon – Meal of 7 beef dishes.
Bo Kho – Hearty beef stew served with rice noodles or french bread.
Bo Luc Lac – Shaking Beef, tender beef cubes served on top of watercress or salad leaves.
Bun Bo Hue – Spicy Beef Noodle Soup
Bun Cha Ha Noi – Similar to Bun Thit Nuong except separate pork meat in fish sauce, lettuce/herb greens, and cold noodle.
Bun Oc – Rice noodle soup with snail meat, similar to Bun Rieu
Bun Thit Nuong – Cold rice noodle salad with meat, beansprouts, lettuce, mint.
Bun Vit Sao Mang – Light noodle bamboo shoot soup w/duck on top shredded cabbage bed.
Ca Nuong – Large grilled cat fish served banquet style and self-roll w/ rice paper, salad, mint.
Ca Salmon – Salmon marinated in savory sauce served with rice.
Cha Ca Thanh Long – Fish served on sizzling hot plate w/fragrant fresh Dill herb, noodles, greens.
Chao – Rice congee soup, rice soup w/chicken, fish, beef, or pork.
Chay – Vegetarian Vietnamese dishes with imitation soy meat and seafood.
Com Ga Roti – Rotisserie cornish game hen served with rice.
Com Ga – Chicken with rice, mint and dipping ginger fish sauce.
Com Gia Dinh – Family style meals usually w/fish dishes, veggie dish, rice.
Com Tam – Broken rice w/meat and sometimes fried egg/egg foo young patty.
Fancy Vietnamese – upscale gourmet dining, usually pricey.
French/Vietnamese – French influenced Vietnamese food, often a small cafe style restaurant.
Hu Tieu – Light pork broth soup w/rice noodles, meat, wontons, and seafood.
Mi – Chinese style egg noodle soup similar to Hu Tieu.
Nem Nuong – Grilled pork usually wrapped in rice paper, lettuce, and mint.
Pho – Most popular Vietnamese noodle soup usually w/beef and beansprouts/basil on the side.
Tom Hum – Lobster served banquet family style.

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4 Responses to “Little Saigon Restaurant Directory”

  1. Tracie Hall said

    Wow Cam, this page looks excellent!!!!!

  2. Anonymous said

    cool

  3. cBc said

    Very nice redesign layout! Many thanks for maintaining this valuable information.

  4. daqule said

    thanks for the website/info…as a new O.C. resident and going-out-to-eat-person, this is very helpful. Now i know where to try good Bun Bo Hue.

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