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.
A Hanoi bánh mì shop on Đình Ngang known for beef braised in sốt vang, served in a bowl with a crisp roll to tear and dip into the hot, cardamom-spiced sauce.
Sydney Vietnamese-Australian style; Cabramatta and surrounding areas.
Bánh Mì #1 style; common name for Vietnamese sandwich shops in America.
Story Road, Lion Plaza, and McLaughlin Avenue hold San Jose's bánh mì counters: toasted torpedoes, coarse pâté, short rolls, and a street-name fight in the middle.
Halo Bánh Mì sells baguettes filled with pâté and pickles from a window at SAPA in Libuš, the Vietnamese market Prague calls Little Hanoi.
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.
A delivery listing in Bình Thạnh carries the Hội An shop's name with no confirmed tie to the family. What a Saigon kitchen could copy, and how the pâté and sauce give it away.
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.
A sizzling skillet of fried eggs, pork and homemade pâté with a whole baguette on the side, served in Saigon since 1958 and at 53 Cao Thắng since 1960.
Ba Le baked bánh mì in San Jose by 1982, and Little Saigon got freeway signs in 1988. The California version runs on numbered menus, warm loaves, and jalapeño.
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.
A Saigon bánh mì stall founded in 1930 by Trần Văn Hậu on Tôn Đức Thắng Street, now on Huỳnh Khương Ninh, known for a warm pâté that is steamed, then grilled.
Baked by Bà Lan's family and sold from the afternoon at 62 Trưng Nữ Vương, this Đà Nẵng shop stacks pâté, chả and cold cuts, then dusts them with Sa Huỳnh pepper salt.
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 2014, the numbered morning queue, and what a sandwich costs there today.