Jeremy Henderson extrapolated from data available...



Houston was also my introduction to Vietnamese food (Kim Son), which has
not been equalled until we came to Paris (eg Vietnam Foyer, Pl Monge)


A couple of joints at the South end of Houston's Downtown are a bit less
frou-frou and more "authentic", but you can get decent Vietnamese food in
Houston as one may in Paris. To me, Vietnamese cooking is at its best at
the simple end of the spectrum....a good big bowl of Pho or the like.

Of course, there are those who claim that the quality of French cooking was
rarely higher than one could find in Saigon in the early 60s (and a number
of popular Vietnamese dishes are clearly drawn from the French including a
generic beef and fried potato dish that's pretty scary.

Nuoc mam on powdered eggs? No.....

TMO