Served on a baguette with peppers, carrots, rice noodles and a light soy-vinegar dressing, the deluxe sandwiches are sufficient for a light meal. Walking into Dakao for the first time and seeing those prices on the wall, I briefly felt as if I'd woken up on a different planet. For me, Dakao is less a restaurant than a cultural experience, which makes it almost impossible to review. I can offer a few general tips, however. Dakao serves plenty of pretty good, very cheap food among the more than 200 items on its sit-down menu.
Locals also recommend the coffee drinks.
The menu items are only in Vietnamese, and the food tends toward lukewarm. Places like Dakao are heartening, and not just because they're so mind-bogglingly cheap. Western cultural imperialism may lure the Eskimos into selling their igloos for televisions, the Chinese into scorching their lungs on Kools, and the women of the Amazon rain forest into forking over a month's wages to Avon ladies. But right here in America, the Vietnamese are sticking to their banh lot. This page was designed and created by the Boulevards team.