There are many reasons to love this intimate dining room: the pretty terrazzo floor and original pressed-tin ceiling, the attractive and attentive staff, the snappy timing of the kitchen crew, the big-bellied Buddha by the cash register. The primary reason that this Vietnamese venue is busy morning, noon and night is that its menu mixes the familiar fare (pho bowls, bun dishes heaped with grilled meats) with more distinctive, sexy and fragrant combinations of meats and seafoods and fresh herbs: chicken with ginger, beef with lemongrass, basil chicken, curry shrimp. Vegetarians can get meatless versions of the same dishes and enjoy lemongrass gluten, curried bean curd or lemongrass tofu and deep-fried sweet potatoes. If you eat there often enough, the servers recognize you and bring out your order almost before you get a chance to request it yourself.
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