For over 20 years, family-owned restaurant Tân Tân Café & Delicatessen has been cooking up authentic Vietnamese cuisine in Beaverton, Oregon.
The eatery’s name means new beginning—a reference to owners Vinh and Mai’s arrival in the U.S. after fleeing Vietnam in 1976 after the fall of Saigon. They came to Oregon in 1981, with their daughter, Lisa, born in an Indonesian refugee camp, in tow. The restaurant team embarked on another new beginning in 2017, when the family launched a line of Vietnamese sauces based on the ones incorporated into Tân Tân’s dishes.