Bodard Vietnamese

Sometimes it's nice to change things up and eat something else in Chinatown.

So we ended up on Bodard at the corner of the DiHo Shopping center.  

This is the Che 3 Mau, which is red bean (adzuki), green bean (mung bean), and grass jelly (agar jelly).  There's pandan taste and coconut milk too.    

This is Cha Gio, which is Vietnamese for eggroll.  You eat it with the lettuce wrapped it and you add other veggies, with eggroll in the middle.  And you dip it in the fish sauce.  It's actually very filling. There is a whole huge discussion about eggroll versus spring roll.  In Chinese, seems like spring roll (which is a straight translation of its Chinese name) is the fried roll with fillings inside.  The Vietnamese has the eggrolls and the fillings are similar with meat and veggie and vermicelli of sort.  But in Vietnamese, spring roll is wrapped in rice paper with either Vietnamese sausage or shrimp, lettuce, and vermicelli.  And either way, the Vietnamese rolls of both kinds you dip it in fish sauce to bring out the taste.

When we were there, there's alot of people waiting for catering order, so I guess that is the popular thing from here.  And you see people tray after tray walking out of there, so they must be good in order to be so popular.

Bodard Bistro 

9140 Bellaire Blvd

Houston, TX 

713-541-5999

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