Comments on: Under $10: Huge Banh Mi Subs at Vinh Loi Tofu

By: Bun Me

Bun Me — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:29:40 +0000

We serve gourmet vegan-friendly dishes – coming soon at Northridge, CA 8/2010

By: $3.50 Bowl of Chicken Pho! Pho Ha, Rosemead

$3.50 Bowl of Chicken Pho! Pho Ha, Rosemead — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:21:20 +0000

[...] beef pho all around LA, SGV & Little Saigon are tremendous values, but then, there also exists a gushing review of a vegan $6.50 banh mi sammy in Reseda. This particular bowl of lighter pho, relatively to that banh mi, is the king of Vietnamese [...]

By: A Teasing $3.50 Chicken Pho at Pho Ha, Julie & Julie Review & Friday blabs | sinosoul.com

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:36:27 +0000

[...] $3.50 bowl of ORD’s boat noodles are superb values, yet there exists such ramblings as this gushing review of a vegan $6.50 banh mi sammy in Reseda. This bowl tho, was the king of cheap [...]

By: Yutjangsah

Yutjangsah — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:19:17 +0000

Wow. Tony hi-jacked the comments section here, did he? hehe. Well, I’m lovin’ this sandwich but the drive there I can’t justify to the planet. if i’m in the hood, i check it out.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:04:46 +0000

Good god, duck out of town a few days and hilarity ensues. Sinosoul, if you can offer a “vegan” alternative restaurant that suits all of the above commenters’ tastebuds – and falls within the budget bucket with which you have apparently burdened Reseda (!?) – this is obviously what is needed for your argument here. Blathering about 300-year-old monks and the origins of the word vegan just does not do a lot for the average vegan angeleno looking to score a sando for less than a Hamilton.

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:12:47 +0000

LMAO @ the idiots posting how this food is too expensive, etc.

Great review, Quarrygirl.

I’m heading over there tomorrow!

“Half the pleasure of eating a viet baguette is knowing how little you paid for it.”

Uh…so that axiom only applies to vietnamese baguettes? Brilliant logic.

By: secretarykissinger

secretarykissinger — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:29:08 +0000

Sorry to report that Banh Mi My Tho seemed to be gone last time I went by….

By: Valleygrrrl

Valleygrrrl — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:50:45 +0000

I have never had the chicken curry sub at Vinh Loi Tofu, I usually get the normal chicken one, which is cheaper. BBQ duck is pretty good too.

By: yawn

yawn — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:44:06 +0000

its ok sinosoul is just coping with a better blog that happens to be vegan getting on los anjealous

By: Foodeater

Foodeater — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:08:35 +0000

SinoSoul: What exactly is your point? If you want to stick with dirt cheap meaty sandwiches from the SGV, than go there and eat them. I don’t know what planet you live on where $6.50 for a fresh, large and delicious specialty sandwich is expensive, but I think I want to live there because it sounds like a wonderful fantasyland.

And by pointing out that the photos on Yelp are by the owner you are saying what? That he takes nice photos and wants to share them so that people will come eat his food? Wow… scandalous. In case you didn’t notice he’s got his name there right with the photos, it’s no secret that he put them there and you’re probably the only person on earth who thinks it’s shady.

There may be plenty of Vietnamese restaurants in the 818 but there is only one that is vegan, and there are NONE that are as delicious as Vinh Loi Tofu. Most everyone else who’s eaten there, both vegetarians and meat eaters alike agree that the food is great, the portions are huge and the prices are ridiculously cheap. Four people can leave there having eaten a table full of food for less than $30.

It’s “obvious” that you couldn’t find much in this post to diss on veganism with so you opted to launch a little rant about the price. For what it’s worth, the word “vegan” does not need quotes around it, and if you were to ever taste the amazing things that Vinh Loi does with “tofu” and “gluten” you’d realize how very “mistaken” you are in “assuming” the price is a rip off.