After nearly a year of operating out of a stall inside Blossom Market Hall in San Gabriel, bánh cuốn (Vietnamese steamed rice rolls) specialist Ten Seven Rolls opened its first standalone location in Temple City in July 2024.

Named after the Klaude family patriarch’s birthday, Ten Seven Rolls serves its eponymous dish stuffed with pork, shrimp, or tofu, along with fresh cucumbers, blanched bean sprouts, crispy shallots, sliced pork sausage, and fish sauce vinaigrette. In addition to the rolls, the restaurant offers other Vietnamese specialties like gỏi cuốn (spring rolls), chả giò (fried spring rolls), and bánh xèo (stuffed turmeric rice flour pancakes).

Ten Seven Rolls began as a home business during the height of COVID-19. Co-owner Chris Klaude’s mother, Lan Nguyen Klaude, and younger sisters, Sophie and Monika Klaude, spent their days rolling and selling bánh cuốn as food service runs in their family. Lan worked at her family’s catering business after immigrating from Paris to Southeast Asia, while Klaude spent over a decade managing restaurants after moving stateside in the 90s. Restaurants are a “very easily spoken language in our family,” he says.

As pandemic restrictions were lifted, the family paused their bánh cuốn operation and returned to jobs outside of hospitality, but it wasn’t long until their shared passion for making rolls came calling. When the family opened Ten Seven Rolls at Blossom Market Hall in February 2023, the community embraced the new restaurant with regulars coming in multiple times a week, says Klaude. However, the food hall’s newness and lack of foot traffic posed significant challenges. When it came time to renew the lease after a year with a sizeable rent hike, Klaude decided to go in a different direction.

Ten Seven Rolls’s new location is shared with Mama Musubi, a musubi pop-up that sells at farmers markets. Mama Musubi’s owner, Carol Kwan, was only using the kitchen for prep which allows Ten Seven Rolls to operate in the dining room as a full-service restaurant. Sharing the space has also given Klaude the chance to pay a lower rent. With the increased financial flexibility, he’s been able to further experiment with the menu, adding dishes like mì cào tỏi (mushroom garlic noodles).

The new Ten Seven outpost currently operates as an indoor counter with a few tables outside for seating as Klaude obtains the necessary permits to convert the interior space into a dining room. For now, the family is focused on the same thing that made them start rolling bánh cuốn in their kitchen — sharing the food they grew up eating with the San Gabriel Valley.

Ten Seven Rolls is located at 5612 Rosemead Boulevard, Temple City, CA 91780, and is open Wednesday to Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Ten Seven Rolls

Ten Seven Rolls