Pho Ha Noi ★ 4.1
Pho Ha Noi on Story Road is a San Jose Little Saigon institution, simmering 500 pounds of shank bones daily for its silky Northern-style pho.
OrderPho Bac with 24-hour bone marrow broth and fresh noodles
San Jose's Vietnamese bakeries stuff baguettes with pate, pickled daikon and sliced pork in a form that has barely changed since the community arrived in 1975.
The French left Indochina with two lasting food contributions: the baguette and the taste for liver pate. Vietnamese bakers absorbed both and created banh mi, adding pickled carrots, daikon, cilantro and chilli to build a sandwich unlike anything in either France or traditional Vietnam. San Jose's Little Saigon corridor became one of the earliest and largest banh mi markets outside Vietnam, with counters on Story Road selling sandwiches for under two dollars through the 1980s.
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Com Tam Dat Thanh ★ 4.0
Com Tam Dat Thanh in East San Jose is beloved for authentic broken rice with charcoal-grilled pork chops, shrimp cakes, and family-recipe house sauces.
OrderCom tam with grilled pork and fried shrimp cake
Learn to cook it, or eat it with a guide
Banh mi makes more sense with someone from San Jose explaining it. These are the classes and tours we have checked, with booking links.
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San Jose: Sushi Making Class (Includes 3-Course Meal)
Learn how to make your own nigiri and seafood rolls from scratch in this hands-on class with Chef Elham. Cook spicy edamame, prep sushi rice, and roll it with a variet...
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San Jose: Chinese Cooking Class (Includes 3-Course Meal)
Cook a 3-course Chinese-Californian meal in San Jose. Make dragon cauliflower, pineapple chicken and rainbow fried rice with Chef Parsati.
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San Jose: Vegan Cooking Class (Includes 4-Course Meal)
Learn how to create healthy, plant-based food with fragrant spices in a vegan cooking class with Chef Parsati. Prepare tofu falafel, rice cakes, and Mediterranean-styl...
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