Hue Oi Vietnamese Cuisine

Only streets away from Garden Grove’s and Westminster’s Little Saigon district, Fountain Valley hosts a growing collection of restaurants that continue broadening local understandings regarding what Vietnamese food actually is and can be. One such example is Hue Oi, a restaurant that originally opened in 2011 within Garden Grove before relocating to a larger Fountain Valley space in 2013. Nearly a dozen years later, it’s offering a compact menu with some central Vietnamese delicacies in Orange County, and expanding into LA County with multiple locations.

Hue Oi is a place where you can try Banh Loc La – steamed, banana leaf-wrapped tapioca with shrimp and pork – and Banh Nam, a larger, flatter steamed flour cake with ground shrimp, ground pork, and green onions, potentially in a sampler plate with both items. During a light lunch, we also ordered the more widely available Mi Toi Bo Luc Lac, garlic noodles with cubes of shaken beef (here, filet mignon), and their house special Bun vermicelli with grilled pork, chicken, and shrimp.