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8 Essential Vietnamese Restaurants In Houston’s Bellaire Neighborhood

Source: Yen Tong for Vietcetera

Houston, Texas, may be well-known for its heat and humidity, but the city’s thriving food paradise can make any hesitant Northerner brave the extreme temperatures for its delicious offerings. Home to the third-largest Vietnamese population in the United States , the metropolitan area boasts some of the best Vietnamese food in the nation. With both old and new, traditional and modern, Houston’s diverse foodfare symbolizes the resilient and continually shifting character of Vietnamese American gastronomy in the coastal region.

Just one look down Bellaire Boulevard in Houston and one can find a mix of phở, bánh mì, and cơm tấm shops on every street corner, offering yummy dishes and drinks for locals and tourists alike. But traditional fare aside, Houston has also been the hotbed for creative fusions, innovative cooking, and avant-garde culinary experiments because of its diverse and multicultural immigrant communities.

In recent years, Viet-Cajun cuisine has become a staple part of the metropolitan city, bringing renowned journalists, TV hosts, and documentarians to the coast in search of the food’s delightful origin story. Blending Cajun and other Southern-based ingredients with characteristic Vietnamese accoutrements, Viet-Cajun cuisine exemplifies one of the many cross-cultural exchanges that have occurred in the city’s history of migration and contact.

With the ever increasing number of Vietnamese restaurants in Houston’s growing metroplex, choosing a good spot to eat can be overwhelming. Little Saigon, wedged between Chinatown and Midtown, offers a robust selection of food that will require repeated trips to the Bayou City just to sample its eclectic menu items. Below are 10 restaurants that have passed the test of deliciousness, offering everything from Viet-Cajun crawfish to a ten-course buffet menu.

Kim Son Buffet (10603 Bellaire Blvd, Houston, TX 77072)

If you only have one day in Houston, there’s no better place to try Vietnamese food than at Kim Son Buffet. located in the heart of Bellaire’s busy neighborhood, the restaurant boasts a cornucopia of small Vietnamese plates and noodle dishes from North to South. You’ll have the opportunity to try a little bit of everything—from bún bò huế and bún riêu to rice cakes and sweet chè desserts that will have you coming back for more.

The Blind Goat (409 Travis St Suite 367, Houston, TX 77002)

The Blind Goat, Christine Ha’s Houstonian gastropub, is the perfect place for drinks and elevated Vietnamese and Asian comfort food offering tasty treats such as Vietnamese steak and eggs (lunch), crab and garlic noodles (dinner), and Vietnamese coffee panna cotta (all day). The blind “MasterChef'' season 3 winner who stole Gordon Ramsey’s heart with her rustic apple pie recipe may just steal yours with her signature “Rubbish Apple Pie,” a decadent and fruit-laden pastry — packed with Vietnamese flourishes like star anise, lemongrass, ginger, and fish sauce caramel.

Bun Cha Ca Da Nang (12168 Bellaire Blvd #333, Houston, TX 77072)

Bún Chả Cá Đà Nẵng has my father’s personal approval as a Da Nang native. Well known for its fresh seafood and quality fish, Da Nang’s most famous dishes have found its way to a warmly lit, down-to-earth establishment on the Gulf Coast. Unsurprisingly, the restaurant’s signature item is its bún chả cá, a noodle dish with fried fish cake and Central Vietnamese spices like mắm ruốc. For visitors from out of town, the counter has an array of fish cakes for to-go purchases for you to make the noodles at home. The restaurant also has a variety of other plates, including bánh xèo, the sizzling pancakes, and mì quảng, a rice noodle dish paired with pork, shrimp, and a rich bone broth.

Crawfish & Noodles (11360 Bellaire Blvd #990, Houston, TX 77072)

Chef Trong Nguyen’s restaurant Crawfish & Noodles has been mentioned practically everywhere—the Netflix series Ugly Delicious , Eater , The New York Times , you name it. If you want to enjoy a sensational, mouth-watering tub of fresh Viet-Cajun crawfish, there’s no better place to get it. The restaurant hand-selects giant crawfish for their dishes and tosses them with savory Vietnamese-inspired blends of garlic, lemongrass, ginger, and Cajun seasoning. Come during the spring crawfish season to enjoy the best seafood in the Gulf region!

Cajun Kitchen (6938 Wilcrest Dr Suite E, Houston, TX 77072)

If you can’t get enough of Viet-Cajun, Cajun Kitchen is another great restaurant to try in the area. Here, your selections of Vietnamese, Cajun, and Viet-Cajun cuisine are endless—just take your pick between appetizers like crawfish puffs wrapped in wonton and oyster nachos; main entrees like crawfish creole pasta, po-boys, and crab fried rice; and desserts like bread pudding and a side of corn nuggets.

Thiên Thanh Restaurant (11210 Bellaire Blvd, #140)

Everyone comes to Thiên Thanh for banh cuốn, the thin and silky steamed rice cakes that come with a variety of meat and vegetable fillings, toppings, and fish sauces. Traditionally a breakfast item, you can have them plain with just sauce or filled with minced pork, wood-ear mushrooms, or escargot. There are so many options that you might have to make a hard decision—or try them all.

Com Ga Houston (11505 Bellaire Blvd, Houston, TX 77072)

I can always appreciate a place that dedicates itself to one special ingredient, and Com Ga Houston is just that. Gà, the Vietnamese word for “chicken,” makes an appearance in nearly all the dishes on the restaurant’s menu and is always served fresh and delicious. The most famous dish is the chicken rice plate (“Com Ga”), which comes with soft and tender chicken served on a bed of fragrant rice and a delicious fish sauce dip. For those who prefer a different bird, the menu also offers a variety of duck plates such as cháo vịt (duck congee rice soup), gỏi vịt bắp cải (duck cabbage salad), or bún măng vịt (vermicelli noodle soup with duck and bamboo shoots).

Bun Bo Hue Duc Chuong Midnite (12148 Bellaire Blvd #124, Houston, TX 77072)

All the Vietnamese foodies I know love a good bún bò Huế, and Bun Bo Hue Duc Chuong does not disappoint. The deep bone broth blends perfectly with flavorful aromatics like lemongrass to give the noodle soup its signature umami kick. Paired with thinly sliced beef, blood cubes, and a plate of mixed vegetables, the dish takes your average beef noodles to the next level.

Hong Kong City Mall (11205 Bellaire Blvd, Houston, TX 77072)

If you’re hoping to catch a break from all the savory food you’ve been eating, walk around Hong Kong City Mall to browse clothing and jewelry shops, drink some boba, or try some delectable Vietnamese desserts at indoor cafes. The City Mall, also known as the Hong Kong Food Market, showcases the cultural flair of Bellaire’s surrounding Vietnamese Chinese communities. Whether you come for groceries or just want to window shop, it’s definitely worth a tour!

Nam Giao (6938 Wilcrest Dr Ste C Houston, TX 77072)

A favorite of my family’s is a small central Vietnamese mom-and-pop shop called Nam Giao. Well-known for their big platter of little bánh bèo plates (rice cake with pork topping), bánh bột lọc (chewy dumplings wrapped in banana leaves), and bún bò huế (beef noodle), the restaurant will transport you the heart of central Vietnamese cooking with its delicate flavors and fish sauce aromas. Every menu item comes at a reasonable price, so ordering one of their party tray options for a night out with friends might not be a bad idea.

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Houston—Where Vietnamese Flavors Meet Texas Smoke

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This story about Viet-Texan cuisine is part of Home, Made , a collection of stories honoring Asian diasporas creating vibrant communities by weaving their heritages with their American hometowns. Read more here .

At 11 a.m. on any given weekend, Houstonians descend upon Blood Bros. BBQ in an unassuming strip mall in the Southwest suburb of Bellaire, a major enclave of Asian immigrants. Inside, Astros and Texans memorabilia hangs on the walls, and aromas of pecan and oak smoke permeate the air. Behind the counter, classic brisket burnt ends are stuffed into steam buns topped with pickled jicama, cucumbers, hoisin-barbecue sauce, and green onions, or tossed with flat noodles and gai lan, or Chinese broccoli.

Call the cuisine here Viet-Texan, the evolutionary next step from Viet-Cajun, a fusion cuisine popularized around 15 years ago and pioneered when Vietnamese immigrants, who arrived en masse here after the Vietnam War, adapted their native seafood boils with local ingredients and set a new standard for diasporic American cuisines. It's their kids, the second-gen Vietnamese, leading now. For this generation of chefs, entrepreneurs, and Texans, phở and barbecue evoke a sense of home in equal measure.

At Khói, Don Nguyen, seen here with with collaborator and sausage maker Bill Dumas, imbues Vietnamese classics with Southern-style smoking.

Khói's whole hog bánh cuốn (steamed rice rolls) are a Northern Vietnamese specialty with a Texan spin.

“ Barbecue is safe ground,” says Don Nguyen, the founder of Khói , a recurring Houston pop-up that launched in 2017. “It's iconic for all Texans, and we're as Texan as anyone else.” Born in Vietnam, Nguyen moved to Space City when he was five. At Khói, which translates to “smoke,” Nguyen celebrates his heritage with takes on Central Vietnamese noodle soups like mì Quảng, or turmeric noodles, using meat from a Carolina-style whole hog roast. The broth for the flagship beef phở, meanwhile, is reimagined through chicken broth infused with smoked beef ribs—then crowned with brisket smoked in Phú Quốc island pepper.

Blood Bros. BBQ , which also started as a pop-up before becoming a brick-and-mortar in 2018, is the brainchild of pitmaster Quy Hoang and his partners Robin and Terry Wong. While the menu skews more classic Texan, the owners also nod to their Vietnamese and Chinese roots with dishes like bánh mì sandwiches stuffed with either smoked turkey or char siu pork loin.

“Vietnamese food and Texas BBQ are both comfort foods—this is why I think the flavors and meats work harmoniously,” Hoang says, citing his adaptation of thịt nướng, or marinated pork grilled over coals as an example. “This was a dish that I grew up eating a lot with my family. We decided to use the same marinade, but with pork belly, cooked low and slow.”

Sean Wen and Andrew Ho, the Houston-born co-owners of Pinch Boil House and Curry Boys BBQ in San Antonio, have followed the evolution of Viet-Texan closely. After opening Pinch, a Viet-Cajun boil spot, in 2017, they followed up with Curry Boys BBQ, an Asian barbecue concept. Meats sourced from their friend, pitmaster Andrew Samia of South BBQ, are paired with a selection of Southeast Asian curries, plus rice and noodles.

“We’re so lucky to have barbecue as a vehicle because people are immediately obsessed,” Wen says. “We still have people come in and ask us what curry is, or why it goes with barbecue, but it gives us a chance to educate and share in small ways.”

At Blood Bros. BBQ, the menu skews more classic Texan but with a determined nod to the owners' Vietnamese and Chinese roots.

Blood Bros. BBQ started as a pop-up before becoming a brick-and-mortar anchored by its warm and welcoming atmosphere.

While these only-in-Texas creations hold their own as part of the state’s culinary canon, they’re also important avenues for cultural storytelling. Nguyen, who works as a sustainable energy trader by day, remembers working on a project documenting his mother’s family recipes in 2017, around the time he happened to purchase a smoker. A week later, Hurricane Harvey crippled the city and Nguyen found himself stuck at home.

“I had all this time to sit around and be introspective about our place as Vietnamese people in Texas—and it just morphed into a form of expression,” he recalls of his early iterations.

Nguyen points to sausage as a perfect canvas, due to the fact that nearly every culture has a comparable technique of meat preservation. Taking cues from Carolina-style barbecue, Khói’s version inverts bò lá lốt, a lemongrass beef sausage wrapped and grilled in fragrant betel leaf. The dish is notably a part of Vietnam’s traditional feast of beef seven ways, which is best known in Houston at the old-school Asiatown mainstay Saigon Pagolac .

“Growing up, we used to go to Pagolac all the time, and so I thought, ‘Let’s just use the same flavors and make a western-style beef sausage,” he says.

Khói has become a gathering ground for Houstonians of all kinds.

The phở at Khói, crowned with brisket that's smoked in Phu Quoc island pepper

Vietnamese influence is spreading beyond barbecue, too. At fried-chicken-and-seafood restaurant Gatlin's Fins & Feathers , the house hot chicken sandwich comes with a Viet-Cajun sauce. At the Asian smokehouse Loro , Vietnamese iced coffee is blended into a frappé. At Japanese newcomer Money Cat , fatty bluefin tuna is served with an icy granita inspired by canh chua—a homestyle Vietnamese tamarind-pineapple sour soup. “Vietnamese food has become a major influence in Texas ,” says Sherman Yeung, executive chef-owner of Money Cat. “Chefs in Houston especially recognize how well Vietnamese ingredients work with various cuisines.” At Xin Chào, the joint venture between Vietnamese American chefs Tony J. Nguyen (unrelated to Don) and MasterChef alum Christine Ha, freewheeling mash-ups range from buttermilk fried chicken battered with pandan rice flakes to Nguyen's favorite childhood dish, chow fun noodles with post-oak-smoked brisket. “Xin Chào shows how versatile Vietnamese cuisine can be,” Nguyen says. “Second-generation Vietnamese Americans are growing up, and it's interesting to see how we influence our home.”

Don Nguyen, who is working toward a permanent location for Khói, says he's been pleasantly surprised to see Houstonians of all types embracing his take on phở. It's a long way, he says, from the days of being that lonely Vietnamese kid with the smelly lunch.

“It's so indicative of Houston, so indicative of Texas,” he says of Khói. “There's dudes with cowboy hats, but there's also metalheads. There's African Americans, Latinos, Asians, and the LGBTQIA+ community. It's a really cool environment where everybody can come and feel safe. America is so polarized, but at least we can find some common ground.”

The Tequila Sunburst cocktail at Xin Chào is a heady mix of tequila, orange and grapefruit, hibiscus berry, and sparkling wine.

Xin Chào's menu features popular dishes like smoked brisket in lemongrass stew, buttermilk fried chicken crusted in pandan rice flakes, and coconut bread pudding.

Where to try Viet-Texan and Vietnamese food in Houston

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Operating out of a Phillips 66 gas station in Northwest Houston, Brisket & Rice serves its namesake dish—smoked brisket over white rice—along with baked potato salads and nui xào bò, or Vietnamese macaroni noodles with beef.

Set in the Sawyer Heights area, Xin Chào (which translates to “hello”) brings together the talents of chefs Tony Nguyen and Christine Ha. The menu spotlights a second-generation approach to both Vietnamese and Texan cuisine, with dishes like Viet-Cajun oysters, smoked duck salad, and buttermilk fried chicken coated in pandan rice flakes.

Blood Bros. BBQ

After years as a beloved pop-up, Blood Bros. opened in a brick-and-mortar space on Bellaire Boulevard—a main thoroughfare that also runs through Houston’s Asiatown neighborhood. On the menu, find traditional Texas ’cue presented in Vietnamese staples, like a smoked turkey banh mi sandwich and chow fun rice noodles with gai lan, or Chinese broccoli, and brisket.

A longstanding pop-up with an eye on a permanent location, Khói applies Texas smoke and beef to lighter, more aromatic Vietnamese dishes such as phở and other noodle soups. Owner Don Nguyen frequently dabbles outside of Texan barbecue traditions, looking to the Carolinas for whole hog cooking and sausage making—much of it with a Southeast Asian bent. Dishes and monthly dates change regularly, so check Instagram for the latest news.

Diners tucks into their meal at Blood Bros. BBQ's space on Houston's Bellaire Boulevard.

A casual, modern Vietnamese restaurant, Dinette offers several Viet-Texan-leaning crowd pleasers like pandan-fried okra and honey-and-fish sauce glazed wings. The Heights kitchen also takes on Viet-Tex-Mex with brisket phở nachos and a reimagining of the Vietnamese bánh xèo turmeric crepe as a taco.

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There’s no real fusion here: it’s straightforward and traditional. But what is undeniably Texan is the fast casual format and the drive-through (Houston is one of America’s most car-dependent cities). Prepared Chipotle-style in under three minutes, food comes with a choice of char-grilled meat served in a rice paper wrap, over rice, or over noodles with herbs and sauces.

Dan Q. Dao is a culture writer who splits his time between Saigon and New York City. Born in Houston to Vietnamese refugees, Dan's work often examines food, media, and art from a diasporic perspective. His work can be found in the New York Times, Condé Nast Traveler, Vice, and more.

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From downed transmission lines to uprooted trees, storms leave trail of damage in Houston

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A severe storm with damaging winds, prompting tornado alerts, passed through Houston and surrounding areas late Thursday, leaving behind a trail of damage.

In west Harris County, ABC13's cameras captured a couple of downed transmission lines at West and Fry Road.

"These are the strongest ones, the ones that carry the highest current, and it takes a lot of wind to topple something like this because they're built to withstand high winds," Chief Forecaster David Tillman said during Thursday's coverage update on the downed lines.

Also in Katy, along Fry Road and FM-529, eyewitness photos showed damage to a home's backyard and a tree that snapped, with part of it on top of a vehicle.

In that same area, more images showed damage to the Starbucks location across the street from Cy-Springs High School. Down the road from that area, in the Cypress Springs retail plaza, the plaza's sign took on heavy damage, with some parts nearly ripped off.

In the northeast part of the city, a viewer sent images of the damage at the Krab Junkie on Kelly Road. Images showed downed branches and what appears to be a trampoline and a fan on a post and fence.

Images from another one of ABC13's cameras show massive damage to the Conejo Malo club at Travis Street near Commerce. Footage shows an entire brick wall of the building ripped off, with more than dozens of bricks covering the parking lot. It's unclear if anyone was inside the building during that time.

In the northwest area, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez shared on social media an image of an uprooted tree that had fallen at the intersection of Pinemont Drive and TC Jester.

"Please avoid the roadways if possible," Gonzalez urged.

Also in downtown, a guest at the Hyatt Regency shared a video of water pouring inside after winds apparently blew out the windows.

So far, it's unclear if anyone has been injured.

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