Most Vietnamese Restaurants specialize in one or two dishes. Some try to do it all and serve all sorts of dishes.

In the pronunciation notes, the G is pronounced with a hard G sound like G in Great not soft G like Genie, and aah is pronounced like the ending ah like in hoorah.

Note regarding condiments - It’s usually fine to put them on any part of the dish. They are there on the table like salt and pepper for you to use to taste. Usually the condiments include various hot pepper and hot sauce for those who like spicy meals. Most of the dishes come with a bowl of sweet and salty fish sauce, Nuoc Cham or Nuoc Mam, (Nook Chum or Nook Mum) which you drizzle lightly over your meal with a spoon or dip meat into.

I’m a terrible cook, thus I eat out a lot especially at Vietnamese Restaurants so here is a guide to Orange County Vietnamese Restaurants mainly for my American friends. I hate seafood so this is not a good site for seafood lovers. So far I have not been paid or solicited by any restaurants to review any of these places, but I’m open to offers for free dinners or a flat screen TV, but for now all my reviews are unpaid and unsolicited.

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