Yen Viet Kitchen
A mother and daughter cook at Yen Viet Kitchen, and in August 2026 MICHELIN gave them a Bib Gourmand.
Why go
The guide's inspectors wrote the room up in a sentence that says who is cooking and what it costs at once: In Las Vegas, where it's a bit more difficult to stretch a dollar, YEN Viet Kitchen, run by a mother and daughter, cooks from the heart while delivering great value.
1 Johnathan L. Wright, filing from the ceremony, records how the city took it: the room was not part of the pre-ceremony buzz
and he describes it as a Chinatown spot many had never heard of.
2 The one dish anybody has named belongs to Van Alan Nguyen, who owns 595 Craft and Kitchen, and he measures it against his grandmother's cooking.3
Order this / avoid
- Order: the xoi man. Van Alan Nguyen:
They have xoi man (savory sticky rice dish with Chinese sausage) exactly like my grandma used to make it.
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What locals & experts say
- Van Alan Nguyen, owner of 595 Craft and Kitchen and Arts District Kitchen:
It was a flood of nostalgia. It's been 15 years since I've had that [dish]. And that's the only time I can think of in my adult life that I got emotional eating food.
3 - The MICHELIN Guide inspectors: the kitchen
cooks from the heart while delivering great value.
1 - Johnathan L. Wright, Las Vegas Review-Journal: a Chinatown room many in the city had never heard of, and one of two Bibs nobody predicted.2
Good to know
- The Bib is confirmed at the guide's own page, not just on the desks that reported the ceremony.1
- A Bib Gourmand is the value award, which is the whole point of this one: the inspectors name the price as the reason.
Verdict
could-visit — A mother and daughter cook Vietnamese food in Chinatown, and in August 2026 MICHELIN gave them a Bib Gourmand and said they cook from the heart in a city where it is hard to stretch a dollar. Van Alan Nguyen, who runs 595 Craft and Kitchen, orders the xoi man and says it tastes exactly like his grandmother's, which is the only dish anyone has named here. Nobody has reviewed the room yet, which is what holds this where it is.