The name of their new place is more polite than Pho King Rapidos , the title of the food truck that husband-and-wife team Long Nguyen and Shauna Seamen revved up during the pandemic, but the food is just as tasty. After a few stops in other spots — Avanti, a shared space in Park Hill, and plenty of pop-ups — they've opened Saigon Noodle Club at the Edgewater Public Market.

“We’ve had to fight with people considering our name to be crass,” Nguyen told us last spring, when they'd decided to open in Edgewater under another name. “We aren’t going to serve the same menu we did at Avanti or the food truck, so the name change, the evolution, would help with that.” Although many of PKR's bomb-ass food favorites are still available, the focus here is on fun, affordable, fresh noodle bowls wit

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