{"id":198,"date":"2005-11-28T08:43:15","date_gmt":"2005-11-28T15:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=198"},"modified":"2005-11-28T21:20:38","modified_gmt":"2005-11-29T04:20:38","slug":"vietnam-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/28\/vietnam-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/IMG\/BlogPhotos\/VietnamHouse.jpg\" alt=\"Brett eating dinner\" \/>I cheated on the Jackson Five and went to the I-District last night with my friend Brett. We picked Vietnam House for one reason only &#8211; I hadn&#8217;t been there yet. <\/p>\n<p>Vietnam House has the same laminate tables, plain decor, and bright lighting that most of our Vietnamese places have. But the food sets it apart:  It&#8217;s awesome. Oh my. And good lord, so cheap. <\/p>\n<p>I had the spicy lemon grass chicken &#8216;bun&#8217;. Brett went for the stir fried gluten and tofu. Our dishes didn&#8217;t arrive in synch, but that&#8217;s okay because we&#8217;d started with the spring rolls made with crispy fried tofu. Yum.<\/p>\n<p>Because I&#8217;m such a veggie eater at heart, I&#8217;m kind of picky when it comes to meat. No complaints here; my chicken was perfect. Brett&#8217;s stir fry came with a big pile of veggies, fresh and yummy, cooked just right. We both ate everything on our plates. I should probably have stopped halfway through but it was just so delicious.<\/p>\n<p>And the total? 13 dollars. For two. While we were settling up at the register, something appetizing was coming out of the kitchen. &#8220;You&#8217;ll order that the next time,&#8221; the woman at the register said. She was right, we will. <\/p>\n<p>Vietnam House is at 1036 S. Jackson, right next door to Tamarind Tree. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cheated on the Jackson Five and went to the I-District last night with my friend Brett. We picked Vietnam House for one reason only &#8211; I hadn&#8217;t been there yet. Vietnam House has the same laminate tables, plain decor, and bright lighting that most of our Vietnamese places have. But the food sets it &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Vietnam House\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/28\/vietnam-house\/#more-198\" aria-label=\"Read more about Vietnam House\"><br \/>&#8230;read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-are-you-gonna-eat-that","category-the-jackson-street-crawl","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}