Kim Son was the city’s first successful Vietnamese restaurant, and still one of its best. It offers a much broader menu than most other local Vietnamese places, and the inclusion of a great many familiar, fall-back Chinese dishes makes this a good place for a person to try this exciting Southeast Asian cuisine for the first time. The prices make eating here one of the great bargains in the entire area.
The city's longest-running Vietnamese restaurant opened in the 1980s. When Vietnamese families were resettled here in the 1970s, their first restaurants uncovered the fact that nobody here understood their food. To make a living, they started cooking Chinese, which is why to this day about half the menu at Kim Son is distinctly Chinese.
A large room with the usual Asian kitsch. An alarmingly big fish levitates in an aquarium. Men should check out an amazing apparatus in the restroom.
If you automatically order pho and nothing else in Vietnamese restaurants, you will miss the point of this one. Sample much wider range of this menu. Make sure you stay away from the Chinese food, which is not bad but not as good as the Vietnamese dishes.
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