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Bistro in Westminster  Breakfast is especially good at the
French-Vietnamese restaurant named for the host of a Vietnamese
cooking show on the Saigon Broadcasting Television Network.
July 29, 2010|By Miles Clements, Special to the Los Angeles
Times  In Little Saigon, modest fortunes have been made on
spring rolls alone. Entire legacies have been decided by the
buttery crunch of a warm baguette. Diners anoint only the most
exacting items: fresh-pressed sugarcane juice with muddled
kumquats, whole baked catfish with skin caramelized into candy.
Here, restaurants are immortalized in the details.  It's with
that diligence that Uyen Thy Bistro so often succeeds. This is a
restaurant innately aware of its strengths even when the
immensity of its menu sometimes indicates otherwise.  Uyen Thy
is predictably secluded in a sliver of space at the bottom of a
three-story strip mall behind a 7-Eleven. But the restaurant
isn't easily eclipsed — it's the namesake