New Asia, a Vietnamese restaurant on the far-west side of Lincoln Square, has a secret weapon: freshly slaughtered chickens.
by Mike Sula
A little more than two months ago I suggested in a blog post that the recent opening of a Lawrence Avenue storefront restaurant called L.D. Pho might signal a demographic swing toward the Vietnamese taking place on the far-west end of Lincoln Square. What I didn't realize was that for three years prior a Vietnamese restaurant had already existed in the same space, a place I'd passed hundreds of times but dismissed because its name—New Asia—suggested the sort of pan-Asian dilettantism that makes the eyes glaze over.…[ Read more ]