Cafe 888

Most of the floor space here seems to be dedicated to apparel of the usual Chinatown sort. Also, based on the other reviews, they apparently make a decent banh mi — I’ll have to try that some day.
This review however, is solely for their shrimp chips. If you should be so fortunate as to see them displayed in the window as you stroll by, do yourself a favor; stop, turn back, and immediately buy some.
These super bumbucha wavy wafers of crispety crunchety crustaceanicity, bear as much resemblance to their poor, oily, unnaturally multi-​colored, styrofoam-​based, supermarket-​shelved brethren, as premium gelato does to freeze dried astronaut ice cream.

Great Vietnamese sandwiches, my humble opinion says that it is better than Ba Le.
My humble opinion also says that I need to try it again and again.

Over the past few decades – or just long enough for Neil Abercrombie to evolve to Cro-​Magnon stage… lose the beard, Uncle Neil! – in Chinatown the Chinese businesses/​spaces have slowly but surely been taken over by Vietnamese immigrants. Is that a bad thing? No. But it certainly means more variety of food!
One of the things I miss about California (besides pro sports, good Mexican food that’ll make you fart arpeggios, cheap flights to Vegas and drive-​by shootings) is cheap Vietnamese sandwiches. You know, those shops that are all around Nam Jose – er, I mean San Jose – and elsewhere peddling French-​inspired Vietnamese sandwiches cheaper than Madonna pre-​Like a Virgin.
This place has bubble tea for $ 3.50 and sandwiches starting at $ 5.50. Expensive for a Vietnamese sandwich shop? You forget, young sons and daughters… this is Hawaii, where the only thing that comes cheap is the soul of union leadership.
I can’t rate this place too high yet since I need to try most of the menu first, but it’s reasonably clean (for Chinatown) and has a lot of space that potentially could be put to good use. Just be careful about all the mokes and titas high on batu hanging around the block. (Another problem Uncle Mufi fails to fix while getting his rail done… can anyone say… million dollar consulting job later?)
For another option besides dim sum and some California nostalgia, this place gets 3 stars!