Or check out the steamed banana cake (bánh chuoi, $3.99). After you've sampled all the street food and desserts, order a bánh mì, made while you stand in line. It's bold to name a dish "the ...

We’re baking the honey-glazed ham, trimming the tree and hosting our post-midnight-mass gifts exchange over cups of homemade cremas, a Haitian drink my ... smell of the food she used to make ...