Budget Bites: Dinette offers a crunch in every bite

• Nearly every bite featured a nice crunch.
• We loved the Hanoi egg rolls, packed with crab, pork, shrimp, mushroom, taro and more ($8); the snow mushroom salad, served in a sesame cracker bowl ($11); and, perhaps my favorite, the pandan fried okra ($6).

Yes, but: Okra, even when encased in sweet fried rice and coconut, is still slimy.

Pro tip: Save some room for dessert at Pudgy's Fine Cookies in the same strip center.

If you go: 1018 N. Shepherd Drive.