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| - I was really impressed by this place. You can tell that it's run really well!
First I wanted to say that it was late at night so we called to ask what time they closed. Girl on the other end of line was super sweet and even told us "you have a good one" before saying bye and hanging up. When was the last time you've called a business to ask questions and they did that? Not counting businesses where their calls are monitored and recorded??
Really cute spot. Small and cozy but plenty of seating and because it was a corner unit with lots of windows, it felt really open.
Order their Banh Mi Dac Biet, Korean BBQ Banh Mi, Avacodo Bubble Tea and Mangonada.
Their bread is perfect. And I mean it. Picking it up I thought that it would be too hard and dry. But biting into it was perfect. No resistant. No excessive crunch. No crumbling from being too dry. No chewiness from either being too "meaty" or use of microwave. Really, based on my opinion this is the PERFECT bread. It is not a 100% of a Vietnamese baguette, BUT, it is perfect for a Banh Mi.
The Dac Biet was very good!! Top 3 of every Banh Mi Dac Biet I've eaten (I was born and raised in OC California)... but, their Korean BBQ Banh Mi wasn't good. Tasted nothing like Korean BBQ, and it was way too salty.
The avocado bubble tea I got was nearly perfect! Jus the boba was on the harder side, but everything else was absolutely wonderfully. I loved it!!
Mangonada was a bit too sweet. If the avocado bubble tea was a 5 (being perfect), the Mangonada was a 15+ (way out of the ballpark) because it was literally at least 3 times as sweet.
Regardless, I really enjoyed my visit here. They draw quite a crowd so they definitely know what they're doing. My opinion is merely based on the fact that I was around when these kind of shops first popped up in CA some 20+ years ago, and it's just a opinion... this is better than 90% of tea/boba/Banh mi shops that's around anywhere! That's why they get a 5 star from me.
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