My Top List for Vietnamese Food in NYC (from a Vietnamese) - 1 Year Update

Hi folks,

The original post and discussions are here: https://www.reddit.com/r/FoodNYC/comments/qki072/my_top_list_for_vietnamese_food_in_nyc_from_a/

So I won't repeat myself a lot here. For context, I spent 16 years with my folks in Hanoi before moving to the states 10 years ago. This whole list started because of my constant urge to find a half-decent Viet restaurant in NYC 9 years ago and lots of my friends asked for it.

The list has stayed somewhat the same. The biggest change is "Banh" lost its top spot (to a restaurant that is temporarily not open atm. Owners went visiting Vietnam).

The link is the same and will be updated on a monthly basis:

https://www.tuuthreee.com/imnotafoodblogger/2021/6/15/current-viet-food-eateries-ranking

At the moment I'm working on a piece called "Pho in Hanoi: In Hanoi's own words", in fine details of pho history in the land that made it famous. The details reveal one ingredient that made Hanoi pho tastes so distinctively (some of you may never want to eat it again if you are to find out).

If you want to read about northern pho origin stories through folk tales and anecdotes, you can read them here:

https://www.tuuthreee.com/imnotafoodblogger/2021/10/9/pho-how-it-came-to-be

Edit 1: Monsieur Vo made the list. Detail write up is here:

https://www.tuuthreee.com/imnotafoodblogger/2023/1/1/what-to-order-at-monsieur-vo