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Article: Far from Home; At Bambuza and Green Papaya, Vietnamese Food is Served Crate & Barrel Style
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- The Stranger
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- May 7, 2003
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IT'S NOT THAT I prefer squalor. I know of a certain Vietnamese restaurant in Pioneer Square that's dominated by a loquacious canary, caged in the corner, who pelts customers with bits of things from across the room--which explains, even though I work across the street from it, why I never go there. Nor would I ever think of eating at Osaka Teriyaki in the transactional hurly-burly of Second and Pike. But screaming birds and dealers notwithstanding, I do like restaurants that remind me (or at least let me pretend) that I live in a real city.
And besides, a restaurant whose theme is Vietnam has a lot to work with. But last week I tried two new Vietnamese restaurants--Capitol Hill's Green ...