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February 27, 2012
At Pho Is For Lovers, Wishing Meatless Monday Was Pork Banh Mi Tuesday
When it comes to pho, that glorious Vietnamese noodle soup perfect for curing hangovers and head colds, I'm almost religiously devoted to the huge steaming bowls served up at Vietnam Restaurant on Bryan Street. However, when I heard that the semi-recently opened Pho is for Lovers on Upper Greenville ... More >>
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January 31, 2012
At Vietnam in East Dallas, a Brief Lesson in How to Make Pho That Doesn't Suck
Vietnam in East Dallas is the quintessential hole-in-the-wall spot that serves up amazing, traditional pho. And when Chef Matt McCallister mentioned this 16-year-old eatery as one of his favorites in a recent interview, it was time to revisit. The particular pho in the photo above is No. 79 from V ... More >>
Dining
October 13, 2011
At My Lan and Hiep Thai Market, Suburban Strip-Mall Magic
Go for the jackfruit, stay for the pho. Oh, and bring your own beer.
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September 20, 2011
Crimson Asian Cuisine Now Serving Pho in West Village
Lauren Drewes DanielsCrimson Asian Cuisine opened last week at corner of Blackburn and McKinney in the West Village, serving pho and other Vietnamese dishes such as stir-fries, rice noodles and spring roles. The atmosphere is on the casual side. Not fancy, but nice. There's a decent size pati ... More >>
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July 29, 2011
Pho Colonial Brings Pho to Main Street on Wednesday
Last minute invitations often result in accidental food discoveries. Last night a friend asked me to join her for dinner, which turned out to be the "soft opening" of a new restaurant in her downtown neighborhood. As City of Ate reported back in January, the creator of Steel is bringing a Vi ... More >>
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July 19, 2011
Pho is for Lovers? We Thought it Was Good for a Cold.
Photo by Kristy YangPho is for Lovers bahn mi: Tasty pig, great bread.Pho is for Lovers. I'm still on the fence about that name. Given the restaurant's location at Lovers Lane and Greenville Avenue, it's clever and cute. On the other hand, I normally associate pho with Vietnamese mothers, nas ... More >>
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July 11, 2011
Pho Bang For Your Buck: The Search for Perfect Pho Heads Back to Garland
Pho Bang and I have a sliding doors sort of relationship. My mom tells me I ate there with her as a permed tot, but of course I don't remember that. (The perm part is more of an intentional denial.) When I moved back to Dallas a few years ago, I would make concerted efforts to drive to Ga ... More >>
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June 8, 2011
Nammi's Vietnamese Food Truck: A Bit Pricey, but Convenience is Key
Kristy YangThe Nammi food truck officially got rolling (poor pun intended) last week to much Internet fanfare. Social media was abuzz for the traveling Vietnamese food truck specializing in banh mi and Asian-influenced tacos. I was able to check out the colorful vehicle last Thursday and walk ... More >>
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April 5, 2011
West Village's Malai Kitchen: Asian Fusion Hobbled by Growing Pains
The good news is that Malai Kitchen is a vast improvement over Tom Tom Noodle House, the Asian-styled restaurant that once occupied West Village. The less than good news is Malai restaurant still faces some growing pains. Asian fusion can be catastrophic, but compared with Tom Tom, there is ... More >>
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March 29, 2011
D'Vegan: Making Meatless Choices Easier
For weeks, my newly born-again vegan friend had been badgering me to try a new restaurant called D'Vegan. Catering to the Vietnamese Buddhist vegetarian community, the restaurant is only six weeks old. The self-proclaimed "green" eatery sits in the food court space between Hong Kong Supermark ... More >>
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February 24, 2011
Pho Tay Do: Venturing Out of Chinatown for Fiery Vietnamese Soup
Kristy YangPho Tay Do's bun bo hueThe second most popular Vietnamese noodle soup, behind only pho, is arguably the fiery and fragrant bun bo hue. The vermicelli dish originated in the central Vietnamese city of Hue and gets its signature taste and aroma via chilies and lemongrass. Word is, t ... More >>
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February 1, 2011
Fill Your Super Bowl in Arlington. You're Going to Be Stuck in Traffic Anyway.
As much as we hate to admit it, technically, the Super Bowl is being held in Arlington. So in honor of the big game in the little city west of us, here's a list of some Asian eateries to visit in Arlington. For banh mi: This is a toss up. Most locals are loyal to Ba Le on Browning. Indeed, ... More >>
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January 27, 2011
Lemongrass' Khoa Nguyen Demonstates an Easy, Greaseless Vietnamese Seafood Crepe
Photos by Kristy YangLemongrass' banh xeo with seafoodAs I teased in last week's Pho from Home post, this week we're visiting Lemongrass' kitchen with owner Khoa Nguyen where he'll teach us how to make their popular banh xeo. Banh xeo, or Vietnamese crepe, is known to be delicious but notor ... More >>
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January 18, 2011
Lemongrass: Pho and Fusion Fit for a Mom
Pho even a mother could loveWhen I visited Lemongrass last summer, I promised owner/sometimes chef/always waiter/emergency dish washer Khoa Nguyen that I would return in the winter for a bowl of the restaurant's pho. With the cold weather setting in last week, I figured it was the perfect tim ... More >>
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January 14, 2011
Steel Creator Bringing Vietnamese Street Food to Downtown
It was dark and cold yesterday morning when I biked past the empty storefront alongside Press Box Grill, so I elected not to check out the brand new permits posted in the window. But D Magazine's Tim Rogers is obviously a better -- or at least warmer -- cycling newshound than I am, since he s ... More >>
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November 23, 2010
Of Dining, the American Dream and Places in the Heart
Apologies for missing last week's Walk the Wok. Hope everyone has been eating well and has discovered something tasty since the last time we rendezvoused. During my MIA time, I've been revisiting past blog-subject restaurants with the intention of doing updates. I stopped in at Naga Thai to ... More >>
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November 9, 2010
V Bistro: Next Time, This Party of One
Will Party Down the Block
As this weather continues playing its schizophrenic mind games, the affect on me is a range of melodramatic "food swings." It's cold. I want something fat. It's hot. Maybe just some fruit. It's cold again. Maybe it's OK if I have a burger as long as I'm wearing a baggy sweater. Nope. ... More >>
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November 3, 2010
Ba Le: Good Sandwiches, But Not Great
A couple of weeks ago, when a visit to Ba Le in Garland proved disappointing, I teased that I would be trying out the much more highly recommended outpost in Arlington. The two restaurants couldn't be more opposite. While the Garland location is a small deli take-home type of establishmen ... More >>
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October 20, 2010
Pho 95: Does U.S. Pho Beat Vietnam's?
Not Always.
One of my best friends recently emigrated from Vietnam to the United States. He was born in Ho Chi Minh City, spent all 30 years of his life there and is a proud Vietnamese, but when I last spoke to him, he said something that surprised me. What he said wasn't so surprising as much as from wh ... More >>
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October 15, 2010
Ba Le in Garland Lays It on Thick
It always surpsrises me when I return home from Vietnam a few pounds lighter. Keep in mind that the nation still is a third world country, and the general mindset of the Vietnamese isn't as diet-fanatical as it is here. Although I've traveled back to Vietnam quite frequently over the past decade, th ... More >>
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August 30, 2010
Eating Asian in the Big Apple: The Highs, the Lows, the Many
Bone Marrow at PruneHaving been on a business trip in New York for the last two weeks, I thought, surely I'd be off blogging duties. However, the man had different ideas for me, with a seemingly innocuous send-off of, "Have a safe trip. Send in anything interesting you might find." Crap. See ... More >>
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July 14, 2010
Pho Que Huong: Not Quite as Comforting
As Food from Home
Noodles, the anti-blues foodI haven't written a Pho From Home in some time, as I've been reserving it for when the cold temperatures return. Last week, however, I found myself in the odd position of craving pho in the middle of the Texas summer. After botching a job interview in Las Colinas ... More >>
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June 15, 2010
Stranded at the Altar: Zander's House Teases With a Menu We Can't Taste
Plano has its share of Asian restaurants, but seeing as how I live in between the two closer options of Richardson and Arlington, I never feel the need to travel past Belt Line Road. Luckily, a shopping expedition to Allen made sure I'd have to drive through our northern neighbor, and I wante ... More >>
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May 28, 2010
100 Favorite DIshes: Vietnamese Pork Panini at Lumi Empanada & Dumpling Kitchen
As a countdown to the Dallas Observer's "Best of Dallas" 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can be eaten on the che ... More >>
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May 18, 2010
Love Hurts: I Luv Pho Puts Our Fondness for "Vietnamese" Food to the Test
The food at I Luv Pho is enough to break your heart. There are the blogs I can't wait to write, and there are the blogs I put off until 4:30 on a Monday afternoon, tippy-toeing dangerously close to my deadline. This week's would be the latter. After being repeatedly hounded by a friend to vi ... More >>
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April 27, 2010
Your Search for a Fabulous Hu Tieu Ends With This Post
Last Monday afternoon, my friend and I found ourselves taking an unplanned tour of the Dallas area, from Uptown to White Rock Lake all the way to Garland, after three restaurants we wanted to try were closed or out of business. Frustrated and starving at this point, I declared that we eat at the ... More >>
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March 23, 2010
Le Me Thinks It Can Do It All But Can't
With Texas continuing its onslaught of dysfunctional weather (today excluded), I interpreted last weekend's abrupt cold weather as a sign for me to finally go and review Pho Bang, the popular pho restaurant in Garland. Along for the food ride was my friend Kelly, a Vietnamese cuisine neophyte. On ... More >>
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March 16, 2010
Sometimes Off the Beaten Path Should Stay Off the Beaten Path
This past weekend's Pacquiao-Clottey fight marked my first visit to Cowboys Stadium. Being the ever-so-dedicated blogger that I am, I took this opportunity of being in Arlington to try out a restaurant about which I'd been hearing good things. Whenever I am in Arlington, I usually visit my old st ... More >>
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February 9, 2010
Pho From Home: Ngoc Suong
Photos by Kristy YangBun ChaAfter a positive dining experience at the Super H Mart last week, I asked my mother if she was up for joining me on one more food expedition before she leaves town. She said yes, but any early excitement she held for Grimaldi's pizza or Rise No. 1 baguettes soon dissip ... More >>
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February 2, 2010
Pho From Home: From Saigon Kitchen to the Super H Mart and Back
Photos by Kristy YangSoup at Saigon KitchenIs it safe to come out? Someone's writing sure did bring about a lot of ire last week, but I've always felt food, like puppies and babies, is a unifier not a divider. So let's get started again. Like many food finding expeditions I've had in the past w ... More >>
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January 26, 2010
Pho From Home: Bistro B
This week I had the rare pleasure of spending time with my mom. She is in town, well, technically in the country, for the next few weeks and I have been waiting anxiously for her arrival. One of my favorite pastimes is embarking on adventures of the food variety with my mom. Whether it's gett ... More >>
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January 12, 2010
Pho From Home: Dishes To Fit Your Resolutions
Mi Hoanh Thanh (wonton noodle soup).City of Ate reader, Margie, comments, "Oh, and I'd like to add that this rash of dieting talk all over the web and TV is making me sick. My resolution is to eat more and drink more and have more fun doing it. Saying 'hell' more than 'damn' is another one I thi ... More >>
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January 5, 2010
Pho From Home: Vietnam Restaurant
The holidays wreaked havoc on my dining schedule these last few weeks, so today's post is going to be a tad shorter. Gathering backup participants for fulfilling my cravings in faraway lands like Garland or Carrollton proved rather difficult. Reactions from my family and friends ranged from an ... More >>
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December 22, 2009
Pho From Home: Cafe Hop
My only immediate family member in town this Christmas is my brother, Ben. It's been a difficult time for my family, and I figure my brother and I need a home cooked meal. Seeing as how my parents are both overseas caring for my ailing grandmother, this is kind of a conundrum. While I am adep ... More >>
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December 8, 2009
Pho From Home: Le's Fire Pot
Le's in glorious Arlington.It's freezing. I am always cold, by nature, but it is bonafide frosty. I need something warm in my belly, and I can't believe it, but I am craving pho. My brother, with whom I work, senses my impending breakdown and says the six words he or anyone who's in my inner ... More >>
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December 1, 2009
Pho From Home: Pho Chau And Lumi
Call this the tale of The Two Phos. A few days ago, I arrived back in Dallas from my month long sojourn in Asia. As my poor neglected boyfriend picked me up from DFW's international terminal, his first sentiment was how much he missed me. His second was that he was starving. Before he even ... More >>
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November 24, 2009
Pho From Home: Hanoi Style
Pho Hung, Ho Chi Minh City.In Pho From Home we seek out the variety of pho--authentic, Texified, good and bad--available in restaurants, starting in the streets of Ho Chi Minh City and winding all the way around the Dallas area. This time, we wrap up our excursion through Vietnam. Next week, we ... More >>
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November 17, 2009
Pho From Home: Finding Perfection
In Pho From Home we seek out the variety of pho--authentic, Texified, good and bad--available in restaurants, starting in the streets of Ho Chi Minh City and winding all the way around the Dallas area.I am staring at a forty-paged PDF file on my laptop. My mother, who lives in Ho Chi Minh City, ... More >>
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November 10, 2009
Pho From Home: Vietnam
In Pho From Home we seek out the variety of pho--authentic, Texified, good and bad--available in restaurants, starting in the streets of Ho Chi Minh City and winding all the way around the Dallas area.As a little Vietnamese kid in a primarily white world, I never thought these three letters wou ... More >>
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May 7, 2009
Veggie Girl: Mai's
View Larger MapNothing about Mai's is bad. There are plenty of things that are weird, though: the racks of dog-eared issues of US Weekly and Cosmopolitan, the soft-rock instrumental remixes of "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" and "Take My Breath Away," the organza curtains that barely hide the parkin ... More >>
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April 16, 2009
Veggie Girl: Green Papaya
Eddie GarzaThey say Green Papaya isn't authentic Vietnamese. I say: When I first moved to New York, my oldest friend introduced me to her cousin, who also lived there and was also a journalist. We hit it off immediately, and one of our shared passions--aside from writing, reading, watching Proje ... More >>
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