Someone wrote: >Laura B. wrote: >: of a duplicate of one of their dishes. It's a pretty common vietnamese >: one, lemon chicken on a skewer with vermicelli, but every other place >: I've had it uses dark meat, making it a greasy nearly inedible concoction >: for me. Chesapeake Bay used breast meat and it was a lovely savory dish, >: one I used to pick up carryout regularly. Any suggestions? > >I like the lemon chicken vermicelli at taste of saigon, Tysons Corner >(International and 123), also in Rockville. I don't remember light/dark, >but it isn't greasy there. Thanks for the hint! I tried it, and it was definitely the lightest I've found. Not quite the perfection of Chesapeake Seafoods, the lemon notes too overdominating and the vermicelli wasn't the teeny kind I like, but I'm desperately grateful :) I'll take more suggestions from anyone, though, especially ones in Arlington closer to me. Laura "Quest for Vermicelli"
Washington, DC