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San Jose Viet Food Adventure: Fun Snacks, Asian Markets and Fresh Tofu
We did something very exciting this week: we drove out of town to San Jose and it was like going on a mini vacation! San Jose is located about 35 miles away from our home, and getting there requires driving up and over the Santa Cruz mountains through the redwoods. The drive was spectacular but I was more excited about the prospect of going to Little Saigon. My mission was to buy groceries and pop into a bakery for snack “research.”
In before times, I took the Vietnamese community in nearby San Jose for granted. It’s among the largest in America and would always be there when I was in the mood for ingredients or a quick bowl of pho. But since mid-March 2020, when things locked down in the Bay Area, I’d only gone grocery shopping “over the hill” twice.When I did, the trips were short and frankly, manic, given the pandemic circumstances.