A Vietnamese street food classic comes inside on Capitol Hill.
Researching the city’s best coffee shops tends to mean riding a caffeine high tempered only by a steady stream of mediocre pastries, inexplicably made in-house when perfectly wonderful bakeries could supply far better wholesale for half the effort. Which meant that by the time I reached Phê, the über-cool Capitol Hill Vietnamese matcha shop and café, I leapt at the chance to change things up. As tempting as the banh mi selection was (with pork, vegan, and halal lemongrass chicken options), I ordered the xôi mặn—literally salty sticky rice—to offset the dessertlike signature banana pudding matcha latte.
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