Asian Malls and Shopping Districts

Asian Malls

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Markets

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Chinese, Thai and Viet

Viet Restaurants

My short list

Newspaper Restaurant Guides

Tips on Finding Viet Ingredients and Restaurants

Newspapers are good sources for unbiased opinions of restaurants in America. I don't use Zagat because there are few Vietnamese restaurants included. Here are links to the dining guides of some the nation's biggest newspapers. Under cuisine, select "Vietnamese" and see what they come up with!

BayArea.com
www.bayarea.com/mld/bayarea/entertainment/dining
Includes San Jose Mercury News. Covers SF, East Bay, South Bay, Monterey.

Boston Globe
ae.boston.com/dining/search.shtml

Chicago Tribute/Metromix
www.metromix.com

Houston Chronicle
www.chron.com/content/chronicle/dining/index.html

L.A. Weekly
http://www.laweekly.com/food/
Here's a link to a searchable database from terrific restaurant reviewers Jonathan Gold and Michelle Huneven. Gold is Gourmet magazine's restaurant critic in NYC, but he writes for the LA Weekly too. Scroll down the main page for links to past special issues devoted to the L.A. restaurant scene.

Los Angeles Times
www.calendarlive.com/dining
Covers Los Angeles and Orange Counties.

O.C. Weekly
http://www.ocweekly.com/food/
Covers Orange County.

Minnesota Star Tribune
www.startribune.com/stories/456/

New York Times
www.nytimes.com/pages/dining/index.html
Here's a list of NYC Viet restaurants from the New York Times.

San Francisco Chronicle
www.sfgate.com/eguide/food/

Washington Post
eg.washingtonpost.com/main
Covers Washington D.C., Virginia and Maryland.

If I've not included your paper here, use Refdesk.com's comprehensive list of links to newspapers in America and other countries: www.refdesk.com/paper.html