Viet Pronunciation & About Me
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. I have not been paid or solicited by any restaurants for these reviews.
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Minh Carter said
Dear Cam,
I know your friend Lia through work (Golden West College Library). Thank you for such a wonderful, informative, and funny web site. I really enjoy it and am forwarding it to my friends.
Thank you.
Ravenous Couple: Cooking up Life said
Great work organizing all this information! We love to cook Vietnamese food and eat! 🙂
Hong and Kim
Ravenous Couple: Cooking up Life
michelle said
DUDE@!!!!!!!!!i’m so glad i found your blog
i just moved to the orange county area to visit family and am desperate for some great places to eat – and because it is a thriving vietnamese community – i want great vietnamese food.
do you have places to recommend for the best thing ever – the crepe… the one at van’s restaurant, seems so small….
also, best pho and also anything else that i should try? i really really want to get good dessert cups with all the gooey yumness of eating a very unfamiliar vietnamese summer drink – do i have it wrong? educate me!!! hope to eat with ya! haha!!!
thanks,
Michelle
Cam said
Thanks for you comment Michelle,
The crepe you are looking for is called Banh Xeo. There’s many places that have them but I’ve been rather lazy updating my blog. I’ll try to put some up this weekend. In the meanwhile, try Brodard.
https://oceat.wordpress.com/category/cuisine-type/vietnamese-cuisine-type/x-ban-xeocrepe/
For Pho, check out this link
https://oceat.wordpress.com/category/cuisine-type/vietnamese-cuisine-type/x-phonoodle-soup/
My personal favorite is Pho 86 for Chicken Pho but it is quite dirty
There’s so much to try, some of my favorites are Bun Bo Hue, Banh Beo, Banh Cuon.
Tamzilla said
awesome website and very helpful! I wish I knew about this site ahead of time before making my visit to Garden Grove.
Anonymous said
Do you know which restaurant serves Xoi Chien Phong? They are these giant sticky rice balls?
Thank you so much
Jenn