Phan’s San Francisco restaurant is often hailed as the best Vietnamese eating spot in the US, offering refined and smart modern renditions of classic dishes from his native land.

There’s a remarkably wonderful diversity to the food here: clams in a butter-lime sauce; spicy tuna tartare based on Hawaiian poke; fresh corn and mushroom saute; wok-charred eggplant with satay sauce.

Fresh, surprising, and great fun to execute.

Cloth. Color photographs throughout.