So, Andrew, to start up, can you just tell me what you've eaten here so far since you started eating without me?

Damn, where the hell were you?

I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I actually was a little bit early to meet you and I was very hungry and I know we're gonna eat, but I don't like to show up to a taping starving, because I don't want to be so distracted with my hunger.

So, I just walked into the place next door and it said something about sushi on the... I was like, I was gonna get like one sushi roll, but then I walked into the picture of a rice paper wrap via the Mew Spring Roll.

So, I said, I'll take one of those. And it was taking a while. So, I'm like, what's taking so long? But then I'm like, maybe it's a good sign that it's taking so long.

And that rice paper wrap was so good, it was like soft and chewy and stretchy.

So, that's why it took so you so darn long to get here.

To just like go next door and...

This is the sportful. It's not for foodies, it's for eaters. I'm Dan Pashman.

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Anger and Win is a highly respected recipe developer and author of seven cookbooks, including her latest, Evergreen Vietnamese.

Super fresh recipes starring plants from land and sea, which comes out this week.

We'll talk about that new book a little later.

But first, Andrea and I met up in Alameda near Oakland. She lives about an hour and a half south, but she was nice enough to make the drive when I was in town.

Partly to meet up with me, partly to check out this Vietnamese restaurant that she's been dying to try.

It's called Side Street Fall, Alameda's like up and coming as having some of the coolest Asian restaurants.

You have not been to this restaurant before.

Side Street Fall conjures up these images of being in Vietnam and going down a little alleyway that we would call a ham.

To have your favorite little bowl of noodle soup or little snacks.

The woman who owns this restaurant, her name is Hunt Win, and she comes from a family that started one of the oldest and earliest Vietnamese restaurants in Southern California's little Saigon community.

And she's changing it up here at this restaurant.

And I wanted to see what the heck she was doing for modern Vietnamese food.

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