The Little Saigon neighborhood of Seattle is centered around 12th Avenue South and South Jackson Street at the eastern edge of the Chinatown - International District. The area has grown from a few businesses opened by Vietnamese immigrants in the late 1970s to become the social and economic hub of the Vietnamese-American community in the Puget Sound region.

In 1993, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ran an in-depth article on Little Saigon's many businesses, with a particular focus on its restaurants and food markets. This photo shows a man enjoying a bowl of beef noodle soup, or pho, at a restaurant in Little Saigon, probably Pho Bac restaurant at the corner of South Jackson Street and Boren Avenue. Pho Bac, one of the areas first Vietnamese-owned business, was opened in 1981 by Pham Nien, a refugee from Vietnam.

Caption information source: PHO, FISH AND FUN - ENTICING VIET FARE by Jonathan Susskind, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 20, 1993, p. C1.
Caption information source: Friends of Little Saigon website at https://flsseattle.org/