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Ho Chi Minh City

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2012

    Pop-Up Planner: The Best Temporary Restaurant Events, Aug. 20 - Sept. 2

    We love pop-ups and temporary chef nights, but we hate keeping track of them. Every few weeks we'll bring you a list of the best upcoming events -- all you have to do is mark your calendar. The Great American Pop-Up Where: Great American Music Hall, 859 O'Farrell (at Polk), 885-0750 When: Tues., Au ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2011

    Vietnamese Thursday Pop-Up Will Deliver Food by Bicycle

    Phil CarterKatie Kwan, left, and Valerie Luu​If you were in Saigon Ho Chi Minh City any time until about a decade ago, chances are you got food delivered by bicycle. The Vietnamese pop-up Rice Paper Scissors will bring Saigon nostalgia to the lower Haight and Fillmore every Thursday night, sta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2011

    Pho Vung Tau: Nice Space, Functional Noodles

    Jonathan KauffmanBun with grilled pork and shrimp at Pho Vung Tau, $6.25.​ Last month, SF Weekly moved offices to within a mile of Chinatown, allowing me to embark on a new project: systematically visiting a different Chinatown restaurant each week, starting at Powell and Vallejo and moving sout ... More >>

  • Dining

    June 30, 2010

    Vietnamese Crawfish Boil

    Crack a beer and some tail

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2010

    SJ Crawfish Adds Sunset Location to Its Mini Seafood Empire

    Tamara Palmer​ SJ Crawfish, a seafood joint with locations in San Jose, Sacramento, and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), has taken over CoCo's Crawfish in the Sunset in a bid to be the messiest meal in San Francisco. Dungeness crab, king crab legs, giant prawns, and crawfish are sold by the pound ( ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2009

    Doggy Bag: Street Food Mission

    ​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Street walker: Bay Area Bites' Stephanie Im reveals what she did on her weeks-long blogging hiatus -- eat. In Ho Chi Minh City, no less. Her illustrated report on the city's street food is, well, awesome. Im: "Most often, it is cooked on the spot, right be ... More >>

  • Dining

    April 23, 2008

    Two Blocks of Vietnam

    Prowling the jungle of the Tenderloin for hot, sour, salty, and sweet.

  • Film

    July 13, 2005

    Free at Last

    A harrowing journey leads to America, and then to someplace better

  • Dining

    June 19, 2002
  • Film

    July 11, 2001

    Secret Worlds

    The Vertical Ray of the Sun offers up a rich slice of Vietnamese family life

  • Dining

    May 10, 2000

    East Is East

    Miss Saigon

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