of the folks who used to own Vina II now own the restaurant and a couple of the siblings havve branched out and now run Vietnam Restaurant near the Maplewood Mall and a restaurant (don’t remember the name) in Woodbury. I...

- Argentinian - Vietnam - Thailand Suggestions (title & author) are much appreciated!

Try Thai Binh Duong II in the Tenderloin. It has better-than-average food. I like their “Pho” and “Bun Cha Ha Noi”. It is true that you can’t compare the food in the US with food in Vietnam. But one...

them through past personal experience). If you’re in Kaimuki, Happy Days on 12th and Waialae is OK for Chinese as well as Kim Chee II for Korean. Not too expensive and kid-friendly. As Kaimukiman had suggested, Wailana in...

Diner, a vietnamese restaurant, Verbano Italian, Kim Chee II (not so great), Coffee Talk, Azteca (yum), Joses (bleah), 3660 ($), Hale Vietnam and 12th Avenue Grill. That should be enough to get you started.

we were regulars at Vi’s in Oakland till he decided to close the restaurant and move back to vietnam part time. Just thought there might be a good one closer to home. Thanks....

Last Friday around lunchtime I found myself headed north toward the 10th Street Vineyard Café in San Miguel. (http://www.tenthstreetvineyardcafe.com/ ) I was leaving Buellton and The Hitching Post II,...

That’s great news! I recently traveled North to Central Vietnam and experienced so many kinds of dishes different from what we typically see here in the US (which I assume are mostly Southern dishes). We had the Banh Khoa...

-N-Out burgers from the west coast. Farther South Vietnam Banh Mi So 1 (369 Broome St, east of Mott) - get a banh mi sandwich, it’s a vietnamese sandwich. They’re cheap and good. You can search chowhound for posts on...

to get a bit more information. If possible please structure your response in two categories: I. Basic information about regional/stylistic differences, and II. Restaurant recommendation (which should include restaurants specialty...

Vietnam has a few :)

food. The countries I’m thinking of visiting are: Japan, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia and Indonesia. This is very flexible, though. The only one that is definite is Japan because that...

Toi, which seem like a reasonable distance from where I’m staying. I eat a lot of Vietnamese in San Francisco (both northern and southern) and I’m headed to Vietnam in about a month. I’d like to try out some...

Don’t forget Saigon II. It’s not the best Vietnamese place I’ve been to, but it does satisfy a craving unless I want to take a long drive. The food used to be pretty bad, but has gotten better after the...

but it was full and not a seat was open. So I kept walking and noticed that Vietnam II (which Low End Theory has mentioned) looked quite busy too. I ended up at Them Ky (717 Ellis St., SF, 415.441.8525) which was very busy also...