Search Results for: Saigon

Lunar New Year: Time for dancing and dining

Feb. 7, 2013 – 4:36 p.m.

The Lunar New Year is nigh, and a couple of local Asian restaurants will be celebrating with colorful, dance-y displays. (It’s the year of the sssssssssssssnake, by the way.) On Saturday, Oh Yeah! China Bistro at 3101 N. Rock Road will be putting on a traditional lion dance. It’ll start at 1:30 p.m. and is [...]

By Denise Neil | Posted in Asian food | Comments

A look at the Kimlan Sandwiches menu

Oct. 9, 2012 – 3:05 p.m.

It’s open! It’s open! Kimlan Sandwiches, the new banh mi place at 1035 N. Broadway, is now open and serving a big menu of Vietnamese sandwiches, stuffed with bbq pork, meatballs, ham, headcheese, veggies and more. (My co-worker is calling it “Middle Saigon,” a nod to its location in between Saigon at 1103 N. Broadway and [...]

By Denise Neil | Posted in Just opened, Vietnamese food | Comments

New banh mi place will open soon

Sept. 10, 2012 – 11:06 a.m.

North Broadway is a good street to frequent if you love Vietnamese food. In a few weeks, a new restaurant called Kimlan Banh Mi Sandwiches will open at 1035 N. Broadway in a former Pizza Hut building. It’s right next door to the fabulous Little Saigon restaurant at 1015 N. Broadway and right down the [...]

By Denise Neil | Posted in About-to-open, Sandwiches, Vietnamese food | Comments

Three Vietnamese food headlines

July 27, 2012 – 2:41 p.m.

Over the past year, I’ve realized something: My favorite food in Wichita is Vietnamese food. I don’t know when it happened, but I think it was somewhere in between my discovery of the existence of banh mi sandwiches and my first bite of beef stew at My Tho. Now, I crave the fresh, basil-y, grilled [...]

By Denise Neil | Posted in Vietnamese food | Comments

Question of the week: Best restaurant products for home use?

May 23, 2012 – 4:16 p.m.

At last night’s fun dinner at Pat and Don Hysko’s house, Pat shared her secret about buying Knolla’s pizza dough raw whenever she wanted to make homemade pizza. Her theory: If a restaurant can sell you something it takes a while to make (or that you can’t make any better) and it’s inexpensive and good [...]

By Denise Neil | Posted in Question of the week | Comments

Happy New Year

Jan. 23, 2012 – 2:40 p.m.

Here’s my friend Jaime Green’s annual video created from the colorful and noisy New Year’s celebration at Saigon, 1103 N. Broadway. Enjoy…

By Denise Neil | Posted in Asian food | Comments

They’ll dance while you dine

Jan. 19, 2012 – 1:54 p.m.

A couple of local Asian restaurants will soon be offering traditional cultural dancing to entertain their diners. One is Sit @ Thai Bistro, which has recently begun an every-Friday-night traditional dance show. From 6 to 7 p.m. at the restaurant’s west side location, 7603 W. 21st St., a professional Thai dancer from Bangkok performs. Monday is [...]

By Denise Neil | Posted in Asian food, Vietnamese food | Comments

Sign gone at Saigon

Oct. 18, 2011 – 2:04 p.m.

And a new one is in its place. Fans of Wichita’s flagship Vietnamese restaurant at 1103 N. Broadway may have noticed during the past several weeks that the place was sign-less. Some killer wind attacked a few weeks ago and did the old sign in. But a new, yellow-er one is now in place. And [...]

By Denise Neil | Posted in Asian food | Comments

Vietnamese coffee: An underappreciated summer treat

July 19, 2011 – 10:23 a.m.

When I first moved to Wichita, the same smart people who introduced me to Vietnamese food also introduced me to Vietnamese coffee. If you don’t know about it, you should. Although it’s a calorie bomb, it’s a decadent treat, and as my coworker Suzanne can attest after I shared mine with her yesterday, an instant [...]

By Denise Neil | Posted in Vietnamese food | Comments

Tacos have replaced pho on South Hillside

July 18, 2011 – 11:24 a.m.

A reader named Ron sent in this question over the weekend: “I drove by 2959 S. Hillside and found a Mexican food restaurant.  Is there another address for My Canh?” Sadly, My Canh, a delicious Vietnamese restaurant I reviewed back in 2007, closed its doors about a year ago. Nhung Nguyen and Johnson Tran re-opened [...]

By Denise Neil | Posted in Mexican food, Restaurant closings, Vietnamese food | Comments