Bánh Mì Westminster
Little Saigon, Westminster style; heart of Vietnamese-American community.
Little Saigon, Westminster style; heart of Vietnamese-American community.
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.