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...food is going to be quickly piled on you, it might as well be good, and Le’s certainly excels at this. The menu, though seemingly extensive, is mainly comprised of variations on a few base dishes: soups, vermicelli, and noodle or rice stir fries. This is typical of any Vietnamese restaurant, and Le’s offers its dishes tastefully and warmly prepared...
...house specialty is vermicelli—thin rice noodles in a fish sauce mixed with your choice of beef, pork, or chicken and mint, bean sprouts, and peanuts ($6.95). It is a lovely light dish, and certain versions feature a crispy spring role accompanied by the wonderfully tangy nuoc cham sauce on the side. You can customize it to your liking (I choose to skip the mint), making vermicelli a good choice for your first Vietnamese culinary experience...
...more adventurous among you, try a spicier meat entrée. The Xao Curi dishes ($9.50) are a great choice for any of the meat or tofu options. Intensely seasoned and saucy, these dishes feature vegetables and meat stir fried with rice on the side. Brown rice, annoyingly, is not available for more health conscious customers...
...that doesn't mean Beijing is on the same page as Washington over how to handle the crisis. Where Secretary Rice defines the meaning of the sanctions as the international community moving to "collectively isolate" North Korea, Beijing appears to have something quite different in mind. "Sanctions are the signal, not the goal," said a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman on Thursday, in a statement that appeared to criticize the U.S. for seeking to "expand" the sanctions from those adopted by the Security Council. Some reported inspection of truck traffic at the border aside, it's pretty much business as usual...
...refusal to offer Pyongyang security guarantees, played a role in provoking North Korea's test. Whatever the merits and demerits of this argument, there's clearly a current in Beijing sharply critical of the U.S. handling of the diplomatic process over the past three years. So, when Condi Rice comes calling and asks what China is going to do to make the sanctions work, she may also find officials in Beijing responding with their own question, asking what the U.S. is going to do to make the diplomacy work...