During that year, the well-known Nguoi Viet Daily News also began publishing from a home in Garden Grove. Since 1978, the nucleus of Little Saigon has long been Bolsa Avenue, where early pioneers Danh Quach and Frank Jao established businesses. Today, these two cities rank as the highest concentration of Vietnamese-Americans of any cities in the United States at 37.1% and 31.1%, respectively (according to the 2011 American Community Survey).Ībout 45 miles (72 km) south of Los Angeles, Westminster was once a predominantly white middle-class suburban city of Orange County with ample farmland, but the city later experienced a decline by the 1970s. The community originally started emerging in Westminster, and quickly spread to the adjacent city of Garden Grove. With other Southern California counties, this region constitutes the largest Vietnamese American (VA) population outside of Vietnam. The oldest, largest, and most prominent Little Saigon is centered in Orange County, California, where over 189,000 Vietnamese Americans reside. Phước Lộc Thọ, known in English as Asian Garden Mall, the first Vietnamese-American business center in Little Saigon, Orange County
Somewhat-smaller communities also exist, including the comparatively nascent Vietnamese commercial districts in San Francisco, San Diego, Atlanta, Sacramento, Denver, Oklahoma City, New Orleans, the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex ( Haltom City, Arlington, and Garland), Falls Church, Virginia, Orlando, and Seattle.Īdditionally, Vietnamese-Americans and Vietnamese-Canadians also established businesses and bringing distinctively Vietnamese elements to most Chinatowns some examples include the Chinatowns of Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Boston, Houston, Honolulu, Manhattan, and Edmonton, Alberta.Īn intercity bus service named Xe Đò Hoàng connects the Little Saigon in Orange county to the one in San Jose and various other cities in California and Arizona with high concentration of Vietnamese Americans. The most well-established and largest Vietnamese-American enclaves, not all of which are called Little Saigon, are in Orange County, California San Jose, California and Houston, Texas. Saigon is the former name of the capital of the former South Vietnam (now Ho Chi Minh City), where a large number of first-generation Vietnamese immigrants arriving to the United States originate, whereas Hanoi is the current capital of Vietnam. To avoid political undertones due to the renaming of Saigon to Ho Chi Minh City, it is occasionally called by the neutral name Vietnamtown ( Vietnamese: Phố người Việt or Khu phố Việt Nam). Alternate names include Little Vietnam and Little Hanoi (mainly in historically communist nations), depending on the enclave's political history. Studies indicate that there is a lower exposure risk when outdoors, but the level of risk involved with patio dining is contingent on restaurants following strict social distancing and other safety guidelines.Little Saigon ( Vietnamese: Sài Gòn nhỏ or Tiểu Sài Gòn) is a name given to ethnic enclaves of expatriate Vietnamese mainly in English-speaking countries. More information can be found at coronavirus.dc.gov. The Washington Post is tracking coronavirus cases and deaths in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. Many restaurants offer outdoor seating, but this should not be taken as endorsement for dining out, as there are still safety concerns. allows indoor dining at 25 percent capacity.
Here are some best bets in the area, from Rockville and Wheaton down to Falls Church and Springfield.ĭ.C. All the a la carte goodness has translated to carryout and can still be consumed around in Maryland and Virginia every day of the week. But that doesn’t mean that dim sum has gone away. Indoor dining restrictions put into place during the COVID-19 crisis have pushed some restaurants, such as Da Hong Pao in Logan Circle, to temporarily close. Rolling carts are known to dispense everything from garlicky yu choy to beef chow fun, too.
Pork ribs in black bean sauce or custard tarts are more entry-level fare. More adventurous diners can indulge in gelatinous chicken or duck feet, first fried and then saturated in a savory sweet sauce. Traditional dim sum covers a gamut of dishes, most famously dumplings stuffed with everything from pork to shrimp to dried scallops.
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