A Philadelphia restaurant was recognized by The New York Times for having one of the dishes they had while traveling across the country in 2025.

According to the NYT, the Banh Chow Salad at South Philadelphia's Mawn , a beloved Cambodian American restaurant, was one of the newspaper's 23 best restaurant dishes they had across the United States in 2025. Mawn was the only restaurant in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania to make the list.

Mawn, which is located on South 9th Street, is run by James Beard Award-winning chef Phila Lorn and his wife, Rachel. The Banh Chow Salad is a personal dish for Lorn.

"Eaten as a salad instead of the hand-held taco style is also a personal style of eating just from growing up eating that way (it was the lazy way)," Lorn said in a statement. "The sauc

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