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WriteupNew Orleans4 min read
Dong Phuong bakes bánh mì and king cake, and is famous for the wrong one
A New Orleans East bakery that became a Carnival institution without ever stopping being a Vietnamese bakery.
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WriteupWestminster4 min read
Phở 79 has not changed the broth in forty years
A James Beard America’s Classic in a Little Saigon strip mall, and the argument for never updating anything.
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WriteupHội An3 min read
Bánh Mì Phượng is a sauce with a sandwich around it
Hội An’s old-town bakery, and why the queue is a reasonable use of fifteen minutes.
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WriteupHà Nội4 min read
Phở Thìn sears the beef first, and that is the entire trick
A Hà Nội stall on Lò Đúc, copied everywhere and matched almost nowhere.
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