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| - Ginger has being doing essentially the same thing since I first started working in the city 10 years back; cheap, flavourful Vietnamese food, and, if you're fair about what you're buying, it's doing it really well.
First up, this joint is really, really inexpensive; the banh mi are big enough for lunch (and delicious) and will set you back only $4.50 before tax, and most plates are $6-9 and hardly small, if heavy on the rice.
Second, there's plenty to choose from and it will show up almost immediately. Ginger has a long menu of simple, flavourful items (and hilariously understaged, accurate photos of said items all over the walls), and your food will come out in less than 5 minutes most of the time. Sometimes much less. It's astounding, really.
Third, it's mostly really tasty. Sometimes it's just ok. But the "best ofs" (banh mi, anything involving bok choy and the pho, in my books) are all solid choices.
However, you do get what you pay for. The place is a cafeteria style joint more akin to an unkempt trading floor during prime meal hours, and expect to be dismissed pretty swiftly by an overworked cashier if you ask for any even remotely complicated sounding substitutions.
But, I mean, let's focus here. 5-10 dollars, 5-10 minutes, 90% chance of tasty. Calm down. It's really a pretty good thing.
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