Bánh Mì Westminster
A refugee resettlement built its own baguette bakeries on Bolsa Avenue after 1975, no wholesaler stocked the bread that came with them.
A refugee resettlement built its own baguette bakeries on Bolsa Avenue after 1975, no wholesaler stocked the bread that came with them.
The Việt Kiều bánh mì is the homeland roll rebuilt abroad by the people who left: longer, fuller, jalapeño-loaded, sold from refugee lunch trucks and bakery-cafés to a community first.
Style from Bánh Mì Trâm shop; another legendary Hanoi establishment.
Sydney Vietnamese-Australian style; Cabramatta and surrounding areas.
Bánh Mì #1 style; common name for Vietnamese sandwich shops in America.
San Jose Vietnamese-American style; large Vietnamese population.
Prague Vietnamese-Czech style; large Vietnamese diaspora.
One stall on Phan Châu Trinh, run by Madam Phượng since the late 1980s, building the standard Hội An bánh mì so exactingly that travelers route a trip around it.
Saigon branch of famous Hội An shop; brings Central style to the South.
Phượng's special combination; their signature recipe with all the works.
Bánh mì Paris is the diaspora roll of the 13th arrondissement: the Saigon filling rebuilt on a fuller French baguette after 1975, sold over bookshop counters near where the loaf was first baked.
Style from Như Lan bakery; famous 24-hour shop, known for consistent quality and variety.
Melbourne Vietnamese-Australian style; Richmond, Footscray areas.
London's bánh mì grew out of a failed 1979 refugee dispersal policy that regrouped Vietnamese families in Hackney, and a British bread supply it still works around.
Lee's Sandwiches began in 1983 as a San Jose storefront off a Vietnamese refugee family's catering truck. The croissant line it added in 2001 carries a son's idea he never saw open.
Style from legendary Huỳnh Hoa shop; known for extremely generous meat portions, considered by many the best in Saigon.
Houston Vietnamese-American style; significant Vietnamese community.
Style from the famous Hòa Mã shop; credited with creating the modern Vietnamese bánh mì in the 1950s; original combination recipe.
California Vietnamese-American style; often larger portions, American ingredients added.
Berlin's bánh mì descends from the Vietnamese contract workers who came east to GDR factories and stayed. A Vietnamese build on a German pantry, kept on the counters of Lichtenberg's Dong Xuan Center.
Style from Bảy Hổ shop; another legendary Saigon establishment.
Style from Madame Lan's shop; another famous Hội An establishment.
Famous 'grandmother's' bánh mì in Đà Nẵng; legendary local shop.
A real address in Hanoi's Old Quarter: the couple who opened Bánh Mì 25 in December 2014, the numbered morning queue, and what a sandwich costs there today.