Food R Drink

Many of the Vietnamese restaurants we’ve reviewed in Orange County’s Little Saigon sit somewhere in the range of good to great by local standards – or excellent by national ones. Opened on Westminster Avenue in Santa Ana around the end of May 2025, Food R Drink is just down the street from Little Saigon, and not quite up to rivals’ standards except in pricing.

A two-page, double-sided menu includes an appealing collection of central Vietnamese dishes spanning appetizers, breakfast items (and dim sum), soups, rice, noodles, drinks, and desserts, but on our September 2025 visit, multiple items were unavailable pending a substantial revision. Cajun dishes and ribeye pho were set to join the menu, while items such as banh mi sandwiches, ha cao shrimp dumplings, banh khot, and banh xeo were all apparently set to be removed in favor of new choices. We ordered around them, and weren’t terribly impressed with the results.

Our meal’s arguable highlight was a set of four fried cha gio egg rolls ($7), which were pretty average by local standards – crispy, hot, and served with lettuce, herbs, and sweet fish sauce. Their only issue was the presence of a couple of long human hairs on the lettuce wrap plate. Three unfried sausage-egg-jicama bo bia rolls ($7) were larger but less wonderfully flavored than THH’s versions, but served with a nice peanut and shallot dip to boost their impact.