New Saigon

New Saigon is the Vietnamese restaurant at 985 Bennington Street in East Boston. Phone (617) 561-6500. Official hours are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily, with carryout until 8:45 p.m. The pho list includes chicken, grilled chicken, vegetables with optional tofu, shrimp, seafood, eye-round steak, meatballs, and a special pho. There are vermicelli bowls with grilled pork, shrimp, and fried egg roll, plus egg rolls and steak satay called out on the site. Vegetarian options are posted. This is Bennington Street in Orient Heights, East Boston, not a downtown pho bar. Come for a bowl of pho or a vermicelli plate, and note the kitchen’s own line that flank is off until they have it.