Leslie Simon treated me to lunch at a Vietnamese cafe I'd been wanting to try--Mong Thu on Hyde Street near Eddy. It was written up in the SF San Francisco Chronicle. Here's a paragraph that's really touching: "Even the name of the restaurant is a nod to the importance of family. Kim considered each of her four daughters’ names before deciding that her third-born’s was the best suited for a cafe. Five years later, Mộng Thu was killed in a car accident shortly before her high school graduation. Kim is thankful that every morning when she comes to work, she gets to see her daughter’s name on that hand-painted sign."
