Bánh Mì Que
Thin, stick-shaped mini bánh mì; popular Northern snack, denser bread.
Thin, stick-shaped mini bánh mì; popular Northern snack, denser bread.
Bánh mì que with meat filling.
The pencil-thin Hải Phòng stick read down to its plainest complete form: a near-hollow baked tube, a ribbon of pork-liver pâté, and the city's fermented chí chương chilli dipped on the side.
Stick-shaped thin bánh mì; Hanoi specialty, dense and crusty.
Shop/restaurant bánh mì; sit-down establishment style.
American-style pulled pork in bánh mì; slow-cooked shredded pork.
Prague Vietnamese-Czech style; large Vietnamese diaspora.
Pizza-topped bánh mì; cheese, tomato sauce, toppings on bread.
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 served with phở for dipping; bread to soak up broth.
Cheese bánh mì; melted cheese, various styles.
Bánh mì from Huế Street in Hanoi; Central Vietnamese influence in the North.
Old Quarter-style bánh mì; traditional Hanoi preparation from the 36 streets.
Bánh mì with phá lấu (Chinese-influenced braised offal—pig ears, intestines, tongue in five-spice soy broth); chewy, intensely flavored, ...
Bánh mì with phá lấu (braised offal); Southern street food specialty.
The terrine does all the kitchen work behind it. Pork liver, fat, shallot, baked into a sheet that goes onto a fresh baguette with butter, pickle and herb, and the sandwich is finished.
Hanoi pâté style; often coarser, more rustic than Southern.
Bánh mì with pâté gan (liver pâté); specifically highlighting the liver component.
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.
The whole sandwich is decided in the two seconds the cook spends choosing when to lift the egg. A loose-yolked flat-fried egg in a rice-flour baguette, breakfast and almost nothing else.
The breakfast bánh mì built on a runny ốp la egg and a hard-browned xúc xích link. It is the chảo skillet wrapped in a crust you can eat walking, the order a child meets before liver terrine.
Bánh mì ốp la thịt nguội cracks a loose fried egg over cured pork so the yolk runs down into the cold cuts, not the bread: the heartiest egg roll, cut by sharp pickle, more meal than breakfast.