Vietnam

Rice Paper Scissors Hijacks Whiz Burgers on New Year's Day

Rice Paper Scissors New Year's Day Brunch Where: Whiz Burgers, 700 S. Van Ness (at 18th St.), 824-5888 When: Tues., Jan. 1, 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Cost: Menu items available à la carte ($3-12) The rundown: Not content to rest on their achievements of 2011 (which included props and screen time from ... More >>

B.street Waffles: Hearty Hand-Held Waffles an S.F. Hit

Found in Translation

3 Bottled Fish Pop-Up Wants You to 'An Ngon' (Eat Delicious)

If you were lucky enough to get to Coffee Bar's The Window early last Thursday, you got to taste the authentic yet accessible Saigon street food from 3 Bottled Fish (http://3bottledfish.wordpress.com). If you got there late, unfortunately, you missed out: the lunchtime pop-up's stash of spring roll ... More >>

San Francisco's 10 Best Sandwiches

​Given the care that San Francisco cooks lavish on the humblest of vegetables, it's no surprise that sandwich-making in this town qualifies as an artisanal pursuit. Even journeyman makers hunt down the perfect bread for their masterpieces and whisk together small-batch mayonnaise. In fact, we're s ... More >>

Binh Thai Luc, Suspect Mass Murder of Family, Dodged Deportation in 2006

​Binh Thai Luc, the man accused of brutally murdering an entire family last Friday, was reportedly ordered by a judge to leave the country six years ago and return to his native Vietnam after serving prison time for robbery and assault. But federal authorities told the Associated Press that L ... More >>

Ken Ken Ramen Sets Up Shop, Three Twins Displaced from Fire, and Umami Burger's Menu

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. The popular pop-up Ken Ken Ramen is moving in to its own brick-and-mortar. Grub Street reports they're setting roots in the Mission at a commercial space that they'll have to transform into a restaurant. ... More >>

SFoodie Readers Get 35% Off Posh Street Eats Event

Nagashi somen from Ame restaurant​Street Eats Benefit Gala Where: Ferry Plaza When: Sept. 18, 6-10 p.m. Cost: $125 to $225, with 35% discount for SFoodie readers A couple weeks ago, I mocked the Street Eats Benefit Gala, an all-you-can nosh event to benefit the charity OneVietnam. I called O ... More >>

French Food in North Beach, Kink.com's Bar, and a Replacement for Skip's Tavern

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. After the cardboard box announcement, then learning of the world-traveling French couple behind it, the restaurant has arrived. Inside Scoop reports that Le Bordeaux (524 Union at Grant) opened yesterday; ... More >>

We've Mapped Even More of Our Favorite Local Dishes

View SFoodie's 92 in a larger map ​We've been busier than ever working on the second annual countdown of favorite dishes, SFoodie's 92: The 92 dishes and drinks we've loved most in 2011. We've since made it all the way up to No. 21 -- Blacksmith Cellars' Chenin Blanc -- and we thought it wou ... More >>

Who Serves This Mystery Meat?

Tamara Palmer​Meatlessness is for Mondays. That's why we're offering up a juicy slab of meat this afternoon. But can you pinpoint the name of this dish and the San Francisco restaurant that created it? If so, please offer a guess in the comments below. A hearty congratulations to Dee Dee Nguy ... More >>

Blue Bottle Trying to Develop Artisanal Version of Vietnamese Drip Coffee

Genevieve Y./YelpVietnamese screw-down drip filters at My Father's Kitchen.​Requests from S.F. pho restaurant My Father's Kitchen and other customers got Blue Bottle wholesale trainer Vien Dobui thinking. Why couldn't the Oakland-based micro-roaster develop its own artisanal version of Vietnam ... More >>

Study: Vietnam Vets Who Took Lives Suffer More Later in Life

​A recent survey of 1,200 Vietnam veterans headed up by researchers from U.C. San Francisco and the San Francisco VA Medical Center reports that soldiers who killed people during that combat have, on average, lived far more troubled lives in the ensuing decades than soldiers who did not. Even when ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Dueling Desperados

Leader of Down Below Gang blames PTSD for killings

CSNY: Déjà Vu

Two Blocks of Vietnam

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

Shipwrecked with San Francisco's Best Bartending Storyteller

Battlefield Poet

Magik Markers

BOSS (Ecstatic Peace!)

'Across the Universe': Help!

Run for your life if you can, little girl: Julie Taymor's '60s-set musical is a bust

Man Down

Werner Herzog takes his hero worship Hollywood

Go Your Own Way

Hippie fashion sense lives on

Bang your head on the Mall

No Justice, No Peace ... Whatever

In the country’s putative activist capital, all the protests and rallies may do more to sow apathy than draw people to the cause.

Killing Time

In the profound Jarhead, a soldier can be his own worst enemy

Not Much to Say

Snappy one-liners can't rescue the Mime Troupe's too-obvious political message

Paper Machine

Another weapon of war: propaganda

Encore

Our critics weigh in on local theatre

BeatBox

Three Kids' Tales

Telling old stories new ways

New York Stories

Four extraordinary short plays explore three generations of Jewishness

Reps Etc.

Letters to the Editor

Week of April 23, 2003

War on War Songs

Iraq and roll don't go together well when rockers protest

The Asian Collection

On exhibit: Vietnamese, Cambodian, Korean, and Chinese restaurants

Dooley

The dramatic story of a 1950s war hero, anti-Communist activist, and closeted gay man

Missed Saigon

Tao Cafe

The C-Word

Kate Rigg's Chink-O-Rama is an unapologetic, confrontational -- and very funny -- look at Asian stereotypes

Far Afield

With Quiet American, Aaron Ximm transforms the whole world into a recording studio

Pop Philosophy

America attacks back -- in the key of D

Zoom Lens

The Fifth Annual New Asian Film Festival

Agent Provocative

In the 1960s Anthony Poshepny was a CIA operative whose macabre Southeast Asian exploits drew comparisons with Col. Kurtz, the megalomaniacal anti-hero of Apocalypse Now

Film Fights Back

Reel World

Life During Wartime

Good Morning, Vietnam!

Night+Day

Crossroads

Irrawaddy's Burmese cuisine reflects Chinese and Indian influences, as well as its own soul