| Because of the geographic location, | | | | |
| VietnameseCuisine and Guizhou cuisine has a natural | | | | The environment did not seem too upscale, but |
| link; Vietnamese Cuisine would be my first choice | | | | rather a kind of homey feels. |
| besides Chinese. Nanshan in Chinatown, Saigon in | | | | |
| uptown and the PHO in my neighborhood are the | | | | There are oil painting collections all over the wall, |
| restaurants I visit often. When I worked in | | | | showing the owner's taste. |
| downtown Kansas City years ago, I went to a little | | | | |
| dirty Vietnamese's Pho place every Friday with my | | | | Also a good place to enjoy quiet time for couples |
| Chinese friends, Compared to those so called | | | | (Will take my husband there next week, even us |
| American-Chinese food, a bowl of Pho is much closer | | | | old couples need some quality time alone now and |
| to my home town taste, and cured my | | | | then) |
| homesickness a little. | | | | |
| From what I can remember, the Vietnamese's | | | | However, the most memorable thing was the |
| restaurants are normally inexpensive, and perhaps not | | | | food I tasted! |
| the best place to take your girlfriend for a date, they | | | | BUN SOHO totally changed my impression of |
| are a level lower than Chinese restaurants in some | | | | Vietnamese cuisine not being well-made. For example, |
| people's minds. However, my impression was | | | | this appetizer looks simple, but it seemed to be dried |
| completely changed by one Vietnamese restaurant: | | | | octopus, and taste so rich with plenty of flavors, I |
| BUN SOHO. | | | | asked myself, is this Vietnamese? Tony laughed and |
| One day, I went out with my friend Everlyn, she | | | | said that his dishes indeed are influenced by the |
| invited me to a nearby restaurant for a tea break. | | | | French and can be considered as more modern |
| | | | Vietnamese. It seems French does have the Midas |
| My first impression as I walked into the restaurant | | | | touch. The combination of local dishes and French |
| was the time and effort that must have went into | | | | cuisine often has morphs into some better, new |
| the design. You can feel the sentiment through the | | | | dishes, just like New Orlean's CAJUN cuisine. |
| atmosphere that owner had in mind. | | | | My camera didn't capture all of the beauty of the |
| | | | dishes; their online pictures speak to the real look of |
| I knew my first impression was right when I met the | | | | the dishes. And most of them, I have never seen in |
| owner: Tony. | | | | any other Vietnamese restaurant. Their menu it is |
| TONY, native of Chaozhou, Vietnamese Chinese, | | | | also worth mentioning, a big thick, beautifully printed, |
| typical Scholar players. | | | | with nice pictures for each dish, looks like a very nice |
| | | | elegant professional photography album. You can tell |
| The things he enjoys the most is the early morning | | | | that the Menu is made by someone who loves food |
| tea and evening wine. Seems to have one thing on | | | | from the bottom of his heart. And you can get a |
| his mind, and that's to enjoy life to the fullest. I | | | | rough idea of the owner's own personality and the |
| categorize restaurant owners into two different | | | | taste as you browse the pages. |
| groups; one is the "Money Maker": This owner is in it | | | | |
| just for the money, the restaurant just a means to | | | | I didn't get to try every dish in the restaurant, but |
| inflate their bank accounts, very serious, every day | | | | it's the only four-star Vietnamese restaurant selected |
| calculating the sales to the penny. | | | | by The New York TIME OUT's for the quality for |
| The other is the group that does it out of their love | | | | their food. I found a great place for our next dinner |
| for food and people and the satisfaction garnered | | | | meeting for my beautiful girlfriends, not to mention |
| when a customer is full and happy. They consider it a | | | | Tony said he will give us a discount. To be honest, I |
| career, a family, all their treasures are kept there, a | | | | think their price is very reasonable and fair, as I recall, |
| place for them to meet friends and interact with all | | | | the most expensive dish I saw was around $12. |
| sorts of different people. | | | | In the end, BUN has given me a new love for |
| TONY definitely is in the latter category. | | | | Vietnamese food. Maybe someone will say I am |
| Even a cup of tea is beautiful here: as if it's a snow | | | | advertising here, but it is really worth a try, and it will |
| lotus in full bloom, he doesn't miss any detail of this | | | | be your loss if you don't. |
| art. | | | | |