Owners Loan Thi Thu Nguyen and Quang Minh Le have run it since 2014, and the menu rewards going beyond the namesake soup — the banh khot (crispy rice pancakes topped with herbs and tiny shrimp) and bun ca tra vinh (a lemongrass fish broth loaded with vermicelli, fish patties, catfish and pickled greens) both lean into specifically Southern Vietnamese flavors that read differently than the broader Argyle Street rotation.
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