DINING ON A DIME
One of OC’s Best Vietnamese Restaurants Brings Quality Pho to Redondo Beach
Pho Hue Oi serves polished Vietnamese dishes to the South Bay
by Joshua Lurie Apr 12, 2018, 12:45pm PDT
Photos by Joshua Lurie
"All too often, Vietnamese restaurants outside of Little Saigon or the San Gabriel Valley water down flavors based on what owners feel non-core demographics can handle. That’s why any bowl of bún bò Huế on LA’s Westside won’t contain congealed pork blood cubes, if they even serve bún bò Huế at all. Regional dishes are rarities. Yes, there are some great Vietnamese flavors at Cassia, for instance, but that’s an anomaly.
There’s finally a ray of hope in Redondo Beach, right off the 405 freeway, with Pho Hue Oi. The Duong family already runs one of Little Saigon’s best central Vietnamese restaurants — Hue Oi in Fountain Valley — and has followed that up with Pho Hue Oi...."
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