Hanoi

The Amazing Race Apologizes for Pissing Off Vietnam Veterans and a Token Fox News Liberal

My colleague R. Scott Moxley recently wrote of the shitstorm kicked up after The Amazing Race had contestants visiting Vietnam watch a pro-communist musical show, recite a pro-communist poem and then gather at an anti-American military site in Hanoi. If there was increased interest (and ratings?) ... More >>

Fox Slams Amazing Race on CBS For Pro-Communist Tributes During Vietnam Stop

One of the token liberals on Fox News is blasting CBS for airing an Amazing Race broadcast this week that required contestants visiting Vietnam to watch a pro-communist musical show, recite a pro-communist poem and then gather at an anti-American military site in Hanoi.Bob Beckel--a cantankerous, lo ... More >>

Dish Network Wins $6.4M Judgment Against Little Saigon Satellite Pirate

A federal judge in Orange County has granted summary judgment to Dish Network and imposed a massive fine on a Little Saigon man who operated a satellite piracy business.U.S. District Court Judge James V. Selna ruled this week that Tan Nguyen, the owner of several websites including ftafoall.net and ... More >>

Vietnam Communists Secretly Run Prominent Little Saigon Newspaper?

Two journalists at Nguoi Viet Daily News, the country's oldest and most respected Vietnamese newspaper, are suing a rival Little Saigon newspaper for publishing inflammatory accusations involving secret, foreign communist influence and sex.Dat Huy Phan and Vinh Hoang claim that Hoang Duoc Thao (AKA ... More >>

The Mein Event: OC's Best Noodles

Noodles, noodles everywhere, from pho to pad Thai and everything else

This Week In Food: Sushi Documentary, Where The Fuck To Drink? and Beer Nog

​ Why yes, that is Vincent Van Gogh's Stary Night made out of salts and spices. Read all about this masterpiece and others in this week's edition of highlights from the blog.

No. 20: Chicken Pie at La Palma Chicken Pie Shop

ProfessorSalt.comChicken pie dinner at La Palma Chicken Pie Shop​This 100 Favorites Dishes feature is all about comfort foods for this writer. Granted, I  include tacos de tripas and fish pho in that category, but it also embraces American classics like chicken pie. In Orange County, old-scho ... More >>

No. 21: Mac and Cheese at Ecco

ProfessorSalt.comFontina, gorgonzola and pancetta mac and cheese​You'd think a mac and cheese would be simple to pull off for a restaurant kitchen, but you'd be wrong. Never mind the technical difficulties of making a cheese sauce creamy-smooth,  balancing the flavor profiles and so on, we're ... More >>

No. 23: ABC Burger at Peter's Gourmade Grill

​When Peter's Gourmade Grill opened last year, they staked a sign into the lawn across the off-ramp of the 55 freeway. The sign steered you toward a gas station, which just happens to host a terrific, if oddball, take-out restaurant.The first thing I ever tried in the early days of the restaurant, ... More >>

'Black Power Mixtape' Is Your Civil-Rights History

The struggle, as brought to you by Swedish TV

Vietnamese Film Festival Hits Final Three Days

Heightened US-Vietnamese relations​This weekend is you last chance to witness firsthand the emerging, impressive Vietnamese film industry at the Vietnamese International Film Festival in Orange County.Tonight's films air at the Bower's Museum in Santa Ana and include a 56-minute movie about the Ha ... More >>

Vietnamese International Film Festival Opens Tonight in OC

Hip Hop in Ho Chi Minh​The acclaimed Vietnamese International Film Festival (VIFF)--an eight-day showcase of short and feature films--launches tonight in Irvine with Stephane Gauger's impressive Saigon Electric, a drama about hip hop dancers and present day youth culture in Vietnam.You can see Gau ... More >>

Court: U.S. Can Deport Ex-South Vietnam Soldier and Family

U.S. bombs still falling on friendly South Vietnamese​The Vietnam War, which ended 35 years ago, claimed four more casualties today.Sadly, the victims are a former South Vietnam army sergeant, who was captured and tortured by communist soldiers during the war, and three members of his family.But t ... More >>

Ed Royce: Hillary Clinton Failed in Vietnam

Clinton​News services are reporting that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pressured Vietnam's leaders to improve its human rights practices during her trip to the Southeast Asian nation, but two Orange County members of Congress view her actions with opposing conclusions.Loretta Sanchez (D-Anahe ... More >>

Ed Royce Worries Hillary Clinton is Soft on Vietnam Human Rights Abuses

Royce to Clinton: Don't be a wimp in Hanoi​Demonstrating his concern over ongoing human rights abuses by Vietnam's rulers, Congressman Ed Royce has sent a letter to Hillary Clinton asking the secretary of state to pressure the communist nation on the topic during an upcoming trip to Hanoi. "W ... More >>

Has Loretta Sanchez Created a "Big Bugaboo" in Vietnam?

Protected worker?​A highly successful American businessman who lives in Hanoi says that Orange County Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez and Iowa Senator Tom Harkin have "overblown" the need for worker rights in Communist-run Vietnam, according to a July 13 Voice of American (VOA) article."From my ... More >>

Dengue Fever Dream On

The Long Beach band blur the boundaries of language, genre and nationality

Loretta Sanchez Says Vietnam's Rulers Are Pimps

[Moxley Confidential] The OC congresswoman's tough stance on human trafficking should play well in Little Saigon

Vietnamese Singer Forced To Defend Himself As Anti-Communist

Get this thru your thick skulls: This Ho ain't related to the other one​One of the amusing aspects of covering Little Saigon politics is watching the world class mental gymnastics performed by the mostly elderly folks determined to spend their lives fighting the Vietnam War into perpetuity. It's n ... More >>

Nguoi Viet Strengthens Itself With Editor Pick

​In March 2008, Nguoi Viet--the Orange County-based largest Vietnamese newspaper in the United States--pushed out its longtime editor Hao-Nhien Vu at a time when rapid right-winger immigrants were calling the very-much-non-communist paper a tool of Hanoi.After his ouster, Hao-Nhien Vu launche ... More >>

Jury to Protesters: The War's Over. Now Go Home!

Do you remember the exciting drama unfolded in the summer of 2007, when a small group of anti-communist protesters began to make life a living hell for the publishers of two Little Saigon newspapers, Viet Weekly and Nguoi Viet Daily News? No? What, did the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the election ... More >>

Jury to Little Saigon Protesters: The War's Over. Now Go Home!

Do you remember the exciting drama that unfolded in the summer of 2007, when a small group of anti-communist protesters began to make life a living hell for the publishers of two Little Saigon newspapers, Viet Weekly and Nguoi Viet Daily News? No? What, did the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the elec ... More >>

Register Marketing Ploy: Insert Head in Sand

Michael Volpe's Media & Marketing column in the current Orange County Business Journal--which I'd link you to but it's a pay site and I'm not that kind of girl--reports that the Orange County Register is launching promotions aimed at countering all the bad news about newspapers, which includes W ... More >>

Yearlong Viet Weekly Boycott Ends

Our good friend Hao-Nhien Vu, a.k.a. the Bolsavik, the ex-Nguoi Viet Daily News managing editor who lost his job thanks to anti-commie protests, has another big scoop on his blog today. Apparently, protesters who have been demonstrating outside the Historic Main Street offices of Viet Weekly for the ... More >>

Tony Rackauckas Hunting Commies in Little Saigon?

The Weekly never passes up on an opportunity to make fun of our favorite local lawman—favorite, now that Sheriff Mike Carona's out of the picture, that is—Tony Rackauckas. So when we saw this item on the fiesty and irreverent Bolsavik blog by ex-Nguoi Viet Daily News managing editor Hao-Nhien Vu ... More >>

What you missed over the weekend: Part XI

Dave Segal moved into Detroit Bar on both Friday and Saturday nights: "Free the Robots' thrilling [Friday] live show blew away Afrika Bambaataa's moldy DJ set. Local upstarts overshadowed a legend!" And on Sat, "DJs Josh One, Hyder, James Pants and Peanut Butter Wolf spun loads of great hip-hop cuts ... More >>

Irvine's Saigon Grille Becomes Pho Ha Noi

Throw a stick anywhere in Westminster and it'll hit a pho joint. Not so in Irvine, where Vietnamese restaurants are as rare as the slices of steak in the soup they serve. At my last count, there are exactly five eateries that serve this foul-weather food. The stalwarts are the two Pho Bac Ky's ... More >>

Broken rice at Com Tam Tran Quy Cap in Fountain Valley

Act of Faith

Doubt asks deep, painful questions

Red Scare in Little Saigon

Le Vu's Viet Weekly newspaper endures OC's latest anti-communist witch-hunt

Have you impugned your local librarian today?

Those wascally wabble wousers at Dissent the Blog, your duly elected South Orange County Community College District watchdogs, have posted for our listenting pleasure a snippet from a recent Board of Disgustees meeting where (Dis)Trustee Don Wagner calls the American Library Association, based on hi ... More >>

Diary of a Mad County

Down in the Dump

Do Minh Tuan exposes life at the bottom in Vietnam

Schedule of Events

A Mid-Summer Nightmare

Cultures clash in A Dream in Hanoi

Diary of a Mad County

Keep Your Trap Shut

Traveling through the new Vietnam

No Queers Here

Here and there, Vietnamese say theyre not crazy about gays

Patriot Games

How a Newport Beach businessman used granny, apple pie and the flag to bilk patriotic investors

Damn Dirty Remakes

Summer flicks 2001

Crouching Festival, Hidden Films

Newport fest chops Asian presence

Just Declare Victory

Little Saigon embraces Vietnam trade

Steal This Hoffman

Sort of red, arguably white, very blue

Eat Cheap

Part Two

Hanoi (Art) Rocks!

Protests aside, the Bowers exhibit is beautiful

The Phantom Menace

Are American POWs still being held in Southeast Asia?

Beyond Politics

Asian fest films get personal

Invisible Enemies

Who's the real threat in Little Saigon? Ask the FBI.

A Dissenter Emerges

Diver Down