The Road to Pho

San Francisco Magazine Luke Tsai Andria Lo San Jose has the largest Vietnamese population of any American city. So it shouldn’t be any surprise that it’s home to some of the best Vietnamese food around. Sometimes a strip mall tells a story. In the case of Vietnam Town, an enormous shopping plaza in East San Jose that consists almost entirely of Vietnamese restaurants and other Vietnamese-owned businesses—cosmetics shops, nail salons and clothing boutiques—and the adjacent Grand Century M...