"Find southern-style Vietnamese food at this perpetually busy, iconic San Gabriel restaurant. Come for the blistered chả giò stuffed with ground pork and wood-ear mushrooms, and stay for a bowl of phở, a platter of broken rice, or cool vermicelli noodles. The interior looks like a quirky old-school diner, with some leather booths framing the entrance, patterned wallpaper behind the cash wrap, and linoleum wood-paneled walls." - Cathy Chaplin