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Twenty years of temple kitchens, then a shop of her own.
Cô Tâm Huỳnh has cooked the vegetarian meals for her temple’s mùng 1 and rằm for twenty years: big pots, no onion or garlic, every dish made to be shared. In 2020 her son Khoa, who had worked in Denver restaurant kitchens, talked her into a shop of her own on S Federal.
She named it An Lạc, a Buddhist word for peace and joy. She still lights the stove before the sun is up. Khoa still tastes the broth first, and says it needs nothing.
An Lạcpeace and joy
What people say at the counter.
Sample reviews, written for this demo site.
“Every rằm my mother asks for the lẩu nấm and nothing else. The broth tastes like it sat on the stove all morning, because it did.”
Linh orders for her family on rằm
“I stopped eating meat years ago and I am tired of salad. The cơm tấm has the char on the tofu I had been missing.”
Daniel weekday lunches
“We ordered a meal for forty for our rằm gathering. No onion or garlic, the trays came hot, and the kitchen called the day before to check the count.”
Cô Hương temple organizing committee
