Subject: Saigon

• Little Saigon Film Director Wins Major Award

  Congratulations to Orange County-based film director Ham Tran. Judges at the AZN Asian Excellence Awards in Los Angeles recently named Tran's Journey from the Fall as the outstanding independent film of 2007. Tran's epic movie follows a fictional Vietnamese family from the day the Communists invaded Saigon in 1975 through the early 1980s and its relocation to OC's Little Saigon. I reviewed the movie favorably in 2006. LA Weekly's film critic Scott Foundas applauded much of the film but believe

  June 4, 2007

• Wednesday's Headlines & Surprises: Total Idiot

  Fatal Femmes! In the July 30 issue of Time, Sean Gregory reports on the Fatal Femmes Fighting Championship for all-female mixed-martial arts caged combat. Need I say more? Well, okay. In an enjoyable read based on the event in a Compton casino earlier this month, Gregory describes the brutality and “the raucous Femmes crowd, an eclectic, testosterone-heavy mix of bachelor-party drunks, white-collar MMA fans and even a few young girls, ooohed every choke hold and kick to the face.” These fig

  July 25, 2007

• Thursday's Headlines. No Surprises: Little Saigon - NYC Style?

  "Cruel" to the Caronas: Yesterday, federal prosecutors produced a list of two dozen friends and associates they believe the Caronas should stay away from - including former Assistant Sheriff Don Haidl, Mrs. Carona's best friend, two friends from Florida and their tax accountant. Not an odd request since our dear sheriff is being accused of witness tampering, but the couple's lawyers called it "unnecessary and almost cruel." Little Saigon - NYC style? After studying Little Saigon in October, exp

  November 15, 2007

• Monday's Headlines & Surprises: Horny Priests and Eskimo kids

  $50 million Eskimo Pie: Because its priests and missionaries sexually abused 110 Eskimo children from 1961 to 1987, the Jesuit order of the Roman Catholic Church has almost finalized a deal to pay $50 million to the victims, William Lobdell and Stuart Silverstein report in today’s LA Times. But “the settlement does not require the order to admit fault” and “more than a dozen” priests escaped criminal charges, according to the article. “Many plaintiffs said their once devoutly Cathol

  November 19, 2007

• Huong Huong: Food-To-Go, Ready When You Are

  Say you've been invited to potluck but you can't cook. Or your family's hungry, and you don't have much time or money to burn. There are a myriad of options, of course, most of them involving take-out. But for my hard-earned cash, there's Little Saigon's food-to-go shops -- establishments that exist just for these very reasons. In particular, there's Huong Huong, a stop-in-and-get-out food-to-go shop with its own parking lot (albeit a tiny one) on Westminster's main drag of Bolsa.

  June 29, 2008

• Show of Farce

  June 8, 2000

• Get Me Rewrite

  July 12, 2001

• The OC Weekly Book Of Food Lists!

  July 24, 2003

• !Ask a Mexican!

  January 27, 2005

• Don't Fire Until You See the Reds of Their Flags

  NEWS ITEM: The National Weather Service announces today a red flag warning will be in effect the rest of the week in Southern California due to unseasonably warm weather increasing the danger of fire in the local mountains.. . . AND NOW THE REST OF THE STORY: Little Saigon protesters vehemently lash out at the National Weather Service over its "commie-colored flag."

  January 14, 2009

• Going in Circles

  November 6, 2008

• [Food Issue 2008] For Our Recessionary Times, 54 Orange County Meal Deals Between 99 Cents and $15

  August 7, 2008

• Broken rice at Com Tam Tran Quy Cap in Fountain Valley

  February 14, 2008

• Letters

  'Normally, writers of your muckracking calibur would drop the context out of a quote, but you actually left it in. Thanks for doing half the job for me'

  January 17, 2008

• A History of Violence

  A brief history of anti-communist attacks in the United States
  

  August 16, 2007

• Red Scare in Little Saigon

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

  August 16, 2007

• This Hole-in-the-Wall Life

  August 9, 2007

• THE CRITIC RESPONDS

  "I am by no means suggesting that the history depicted by the movie didnt happen..."

  April 5, 2007

• AFTER THE WAR

  April 20, 2006

• Library Music

  April 13, 2006

• Grub Guide

  February 2, 2006

• This Week in Inoffensive Tet

  Tet Nguyen Dan

  January 26, 2006

• This Hole-in-the-Wall Life

  December 8, 2005

• 'Gwen, We Hereby Disown You'

  July 14, 2005

• Losers Again

  June 30, 2005

• Temple of the Fresh Kicks

  April 21, 2005

• This week in the letter T

  January 20, 2005

• Best of OC 2004: Part 1

  October 21, 2004

• Best of OC 2004: Part 3

  October 21, 2004

• What Side Are You On?

  December 18, 2003

• Fresh Division Appears in Little Saigon

  June 5, 2003

• Sanitized for Your Consumption

  May 8, 2003

• Noorani Nosh

  February 13, 2003

• Raising Caine

  October 31, 2002

• No Queers Here

  December 20, 2001

• Westminster

  September 27, 2001

• Tustin

  September 27, 2001

• Shortchanged

  September 6, 2001

• Identity 101

  July 5, 2001

• Creole Lady Hearing Aid

  June 14, 2001

• Holy Mackerel!

  February 1, 2001

• Miss This Saigon

  September 16, 1999

• Everyone Hustles Now

  May 13, 1999

• Hearts and Blinders

  May 6, 1999

• Photographer Resented War Shot Seen 'Round the World

  The Pulitzer Prize-winning photo above by the late shooter Eddie Adams helped further turn public sentiment in America against the Vietnam War. For that, some would applaud him. But Adams later said he regretted what the picture wrought, and he wished he was better known for photos that eventually helped lead to the creation of Orange County's Little Saigon.This will all make more sense to those who attend Regency South Coast Village Theatre's 7:30 p.m. Thursday screening of the documentary An U

  July 7, 2009

• Scholarship Established For Ex-Weekly Reporter Vu Nguyen

  Vu Nguyen​The Public Affairs Reporting program at the University of Illinois at Springfield has created a website and scholarship in honor of former OC Weekly intern Nguyen Huy Vu, who died from a stroke on Mother's Day at the age of 34. Vu, who grew up in Orange County's Little Saigon, also worked at the Orange County Register, Seattle Times, Nguoi Viet, the Associated Press and finally at the Daily Breeze in Torrance, where he covered education issues. For more information about Vu's life, g

  July 29, 2009

• Vietnamese Cajun Crawfish With Funnel Cake for Dessert: Thank You, Q Restaurant

  September 24, 2009

• SCP's Crustacean Will Now Be Called AnQi & Slated to Open Winter 2009

  Photo Courtesy Crustacean​ Crustacean at South Coast Plaza, the long-planned sequel to the much-hyped and oh-so-trendy Vietnamese Beverly Hills restaurant that I love to complain about (let's just say that I've never paid so much to be ignored by the wait staff and unwhelmed by the kitchen) has been in development across from Charlie Palmers at Bloomingdale; but only this week has there been word that it is finally underway and slated to debut this winter.  They'

  November 3, 2009

• Life on the Veg: Noorani Halal Tandoori in Garden Grove

  Dal Urad​Noorani's Halal Tandoori Restaurant is a hole-in-the-wall type establishment that is pretty easy to overlook, particularly amid the clusterfuck that is Little Saigon's urban design. If you do notice, chances are you'll experience a moment of severe disorientation when you realize you're looking at a Pakistani restaurant in... well, Little Saigon. It may look like a fish out of water, but since it has been located on the same block for about 20 years, it's most likely that the outgrowt

  November 18, 2009

• This Week in Food

  ​ Edwin explores the possibilities of "All Purpose Sauce" in Wacky Snacks, lists Five All Time Greatest Food Movies, answers the time-old question of what astronaughts do with taco sauce in space, and announces that it's that time again for tandoori Thanksgiving turkey! Dave gets Santiago Vallejo of Mariscos Puerto Esperanza On the Line, conducts a blind taste test pitting 7-Eleven new line of Yosemite Road wine against Trader Joe's "Two Buck Chuck," and explains why the food truck phenomenon

  November 20, 2009