On the Town
Indochinese Allure at Crustacean

Elizabeth An is the petite woman dressed in Chanel greeting Oliver Stone, Winona Ryder and you at the door. And there is her mother, Helene, ready to suggest her “secret kitchen” dishes, like ginger lobster in a ginger-basil sauce or whole roasted Dungeness crabs and garlic noodles. It’s hard to imagine that twenty years ago the An family came to America from Vietnam with little more than the clothes on their backs.