One of my all-time favorite things to order from my neighborhood Thai delivery joint is what they call Salad rolls. They're cold appetizer wraps stuffed with fresh produce and the hallmark flavorful bite of Thai and Vietnamese cooking, thanks to the palate-pleasing mix of pungent Thai basil, mint, lime, and spice. Some say salad rolls, some say spring rolls, some even say cold rolls; in any case the food items in question are cylinders of......

LAist needs to admit from the get-go that we know little to nothing about Vietnamese food. We know it's typically fresher and lighter than other Asian cuisines, and that it is flavored to varying degrees with herbs like mint, basil,and ginger and spices like curry and chili. So in seeking out somewhere new to try on a night when lighter, tasty fare was on the agenda, we stumbled on Eagle Rock's Blue Hen, a......

If we learned one thing this weekend, it's that it's darn hard to come up with a fun, original, low stress, easy to propose to a large group of people, last minute place to grab a drink and some eats after a shindig on a Saturday night. We tend to work fairly well under pressure, save the "okay so where do you wanna go right now?" kind. We had to take into consideration folks......