On the recommendation of a friend, Santa Rosa's Saigon Cuisine seemed a sure bet with three out of five of my benchmarks met--a 75-item menu in both English and Vietnamese, nothing over $9* and a totally confounding dish called The "Vietnamese Pancake" (Bahn Xeo Chay, $6). Perfect. I ordered immediately.

Tragedy! Takeout sushi from the Oddfellows Hall moves on. Good things never last. Takeshi Uchida, who's been serving up reasonably priced takeout sushi every Monday, Wednesday and Friday out of Santa Rosa's Oddfellow's Hall is packing up his knives...

I don't speak Spanish. I do speak Fried. As in chicken, mozzarella sticks, zucchini, the occasional Blooming Onion, and once a Twinkie. In the universal language of crispy deliciousness, I am fluent.