"If you have to eat in downtown Los Altos, and you want Viet/SE Asian style food, but don't want the pungent smell of fish sauce, this is your jam.Everything we had wasn't bad, just very mild, it just didn't have any of the usual fish sauce/smell.Also missing were fresh herbs. Lemongrass pork and prawn vermicelli had zero lemongrass flavor/aroma, no mint leaves, the liquid sauce here was a mild sweet liquid. Mostly vermicelli and romaine, no sprouts, a few strips of watery mushy Daikon and carrots (normally they are pungent pickles). Pork banh mi had a very few of the mild carrot Daikon pickle but nothing else except mayo, no cilantro. So if you don't like the pate, headcheese, fresh herbs, jalapeno, cucumber, and just want pork and bread, this is the place.Pork was pretty oily, orange oil dripping like a folded NYC ?. Also the cut they used had a streak of fat, that ate crunchy, if that makes sense. (Obvi this isn't the place to go for gourmet meat quality, I did break out in a rash from the pork. I am sensitive, when pork/chicken isn't fresh, my body knows before my nose!)Chopsticks were some of the best, they are pre-separated so less splinters.During winter, come early, eat fast.Seating inside is limited and cold, as front door is open."
