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Lemongrass Grilled Pork (Heo) Sandwich at GHE banh mi & rolls

Lemongrass grilled pork on Bánh Mì Baguette. Sandwich Score 46, rough. At GHE banh mi & rolls, Berkeley.

Lemongrass Grilled Pork (Heo) Sandwich at GHE banh mi & rolls: an illustration of the sandwich.
Illustration, AI-generated

A sandwich at GHE banh mi & rolls, a bánh mì shop in Berkeley, California.

Bánh Mì Baguette (r…PorkBánh Mì Baguette (r…
46
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · rough

Rough, with one move worth +35.

Uncharted, two of six roles, few layers have a partner.

Holding the summit: a finished composition, a third role on the board (an acid, a sauce, an aroma or a crunch)

Balance
64
Harmony
74
Contrast
50
Structure
62
Focus
84
Composition
23
Quality
100
Envelope
98

More umami than 90% of the catalog.

Each bar is one pillar of the score, 0 to 100. The tick marks what a sandwich at the summit needs; an amber bar is the one holding this sandwich back.

Bánh Mì Baguette (bread not stated on the menu), toasted: lemongrass grilled pork.

Balance

salt0.7 · 36thacid0.0fat2.7 · 70thsweet1.0 · 90thumami2.7 · 90thheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt0.736th
acid0.0n/a
fat2.770th
sweet1.090th
umami2.790th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.0n/a

64 Balance, out of 100

The seven flavor axes of the whole sandwich, each summed across its layers. The shaded ring is the catalog's middle 80%; the small number under each axis is where this sandwich falls in the catalog. A shape that sits inside the ring is in the range most sandwiches live in; a spike past it is where this one stands apart.

What each layer brings

LayerRoleFlavor and texturePoints
Bánh Mì Baguettescored as Bánh Mì Baguette (rice-flour blend)breadcrispy soft flakythe frame
lemongrass grilled porkscored as Porkproteinfat 4 umami 4 juicy chewy tendernot scored

Points: what the Sandwich Score would lose if that one layer were left out, everything else the same. A negative number means the sandwich scores higher without it. Flavor runs 0 to 5 on each axis.

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