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Your A-List, Best Vietnamese Cuisine
Growing up in Houston, Vietnamese food competed with Mexican for the cheapest, tastiest meals purchased on a student budget. When I moved to Austin in 1984, I was shocked to find how few Vietnamese restaurants were handy to campus. (Missing from my computation was the fact that the postwar Vietnamese diaspora of the 1970s coalesced on the Gulf Coast and in Houston in particular. Austin beckoned the next generation.)Now, good Vietnamese food is fairly available all over Austin. Kim Phung, with two eateries on the north side, won the A-List vote for best Vietnamese cuisine with 16 percent of the vote. The next nine vote-getters bunched up together between 7 and 11 percent. In descending order, they were Hai Ky, Sunflower, Pho Hoang, Triumph Cafe, 888, Tam Cafe and Deli, Mekong River, Saigon Kitchen and Pho Van.
Wrapping up the list with less than 4 percent were Pho Saigon, Tan Mi, Le Soleil, Thanh Nhi and Rosie Pho’s.
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