Inside the restaurant remaking Vietnamese food in Las Vegas

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You’re eating the egg rolls wrong.

And you’ll want to do right by these egg rolls — gently crisp, stuffed with turkey (an unexpected twist), with a sidecar of nuoc cham dipping sauce, a classic communion of salty, sweet, sour, savory.

“Most people dip the egg roll and put it in their mouth. We always have a side salad,” said Crystina Nguyen, explaining the plating at Durango Social Club, the new Vietnamese restaurant in southwest Las Vegas where she is executive chef. “You take a leaf of lettuce, you put pickled vegetables and mint in there, you wrap the egg roll and you eat it like a lettuce wrap.

“The focus for me is the guests and the food and educating them on why we’re doing things a certain way.”

Nguyen, who developed a following when she led the kitchen at the old District One in Chinatown, joined chef Dan Krohmer of Other Mama in June to open Durango Social Club, bringing a permanent restaurant to a space — 3655 S. Durango Drive, Suite 29 — that Krohmer had previously used to house pop-ups. The restaurant (durangosocial.com) opened right after the previous pop-up ended.

“Normal people have a plan, an execution, a timeline, a tasting,” Krohmer said. “We said, ‘Restaurant Week is coming up — let’s jump in the water and start swimming. What do you feel like doing?’ We had to reverse engineer a restaurant while we were still working on it.”

Read the full article at neon.lvrj.com.
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