Okay, so what's better than a new pho restaurant opening in town? A new pho restaurant that also serves frozen yogurt!
Seriously, how can you not be excited by that? It's so weird, so bizarrely, wrongly right, that I know you just can't wait to get there yourself. But if you can wait a measly few (dozen) hours -- until 10 a.m. Saturday, June 13 -- then you can have something even better than soup and yogurt:
Free soup and yogurt!
That's right. A week after it actually open
Lori MidsonNoodling around​Took the kid out for dinner last night to his first Vietnamese restaurant. Originally, we were hot on the trail of sushi, until Elliott (the kid) reminded me (his mother) that he would not eat rice, and since his weekly allowance is way less than two pieces of sashimi, we tabled that idea. Oh...I forgot to mention the part about how I make my fourth-grader buy his own food every week. Your kid gets a new Wii game; mine has to buy his own toro.So, anyhow, Elliott is c
Later today, we'll post my list of the town's best spots for pho, which includes Pho 95, a wonderful place I review this week, and several other pho shops along Federal Boulevard.
My all-time favorite spot for pho was in Aurora. Sadly, Pho 2000 closed years ago, but it stucks like a burr in my mind as that most perfect place for a psychological head-kick of Blade Runner futurism -- a plain, white room, banked with windows where, when the rain came down, a man wanted to do nothing but eat
Pork Pork Egg = Banh bao = YummyIf there was such a thing as a Vietnamese Whopper, the banh bao would be it.
Banh bao, a steamed rice dumpling, is like its Chinese cousin, the char siu bao. But instead of harboring BBQ pork, banh bao contains two types of pork mixed together: salty ground pork with green onions and sweet, greasy Chinese sausage.
What puts a banh bao over the top is that it also contains a hard-boiled egg. Some bakeries make their dumplings with halved chicken eggs,
