BANH MI

and I am older than 17, dipshit.

Viet-Nam Banh Mi So 1
369 Broome St., between Mott and Elizabeth Sts.
212-219-8341
Longing for a Vietnamese-style meatball sub? Viet-Nam Banh Mi So 1 makes 11 types of delectable sandwiches ($2.75-$3.95), mostly featuring pork or chicken although

I was KIDDING

is it true chaki got sonned in a FB banh mi misspelling beef?

misspeloling

that FB group is hilar

best bahn mi i ever ate at ne 68th and broadway in portland

this place is pretty yum afaiac:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=122+E+Bui+Thi+Xuan+,+Ho+Chi+Minh+City&sll=36.204824,138.252924&sspn=36.360582,79.013672&ie=UTF8&ll=10.796506,106.663814&spn=0.021794,0.038581&t=h&z=15

10,000vnd

alex in SF and i are going to 2 (two) banh mi spots tomorrow for lunch.

This thread made me crave it!

best i had was in the back of a jewelry store in nyc chinatown

my favourite was in paris

banh mi coma

even the cafe sua da is doing nothing...

flatlining over here

(t/s: fix the thraed spelling so that this thread more searchable vs. that old nioze borad charm?)

i had fancy fake banh mi yesterday. lemongrass steak. mm.

Steve, do you guys go the place next to Turtle Tower in Little Saigon?

we went to Saigon Sandwiches and then to Lee's... they're all on that stretch of "Little Saigon" (does anyone ever use that name?)

(I do 'cause I think the lions are kinda cool and they went to all the effort to name it and all)

(ha, what do you call our neighborhood?)

A general banh mi question -- are these made to order or premade, and if the former, would I get yelled at if I asked somebody to leave off the cilantro?

suggest banh

Hmm, Steve, I don't know. I tend to think that I'm midway between the center of NOPA and the Lower Haight. You're almost Alamo Square, though. We should call it the White Vigilante Corridor to ensure maximum offense.

cilantro makes the banh mi, you nutter!

WmC, I know a few places that make them to order and I'm sure they're relatively used to cilatro-phobic people. I think it's a genetic thing, isn't it?

I agree, tehresa, but there loads of people out there for whom cilantro tastes 'soapy', or so I hear.

yeah, i'm like a blend of all three and yet none of them really. some might say the should of the fell autobahn (banh?)...

WmC, my NoMS-bro, these should be made fresh, baguette toasted and still warm. Dislike of Cilantro is a dealbreaker for me, but thankfully you and I are past that stage. Never asked w/o.

the cilantro-soapy phenomenon is genetically linked iirc

i don't like pâté :(

stick to pb&j

I don't like being one of those cilantro=soap people, that's just how God made me.

I'm sure I'll get grief for this but pâté, good pâté is wasted on banh mi and I really need to start making them 'cause I want to use real, crunchy crust baguette instead of the chewy shit that everybody ends up making a generation or two after their first exposure to French baking. It's one reason why I loved banh mi in Paris.

I've never had the jambon and pate banh mi at Saigon Sandwiches, but I've had it other places. Awesome stuff.

everybody ends up making a generation or two after their first exposure to French baking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam#Western_colonial_era

Nothing really compares to the Vietnames pork for me except, occasionally, chicken. If I want jambon on baguette, it'll be with butter and cornichons or maybe gruyère.

roasted pork (thit) or steamed pork (cha lua)?

I'm not really sure what your hinting at, there, Steve. I know Indochine was a French colony (not to mention a band and a movie)

Oh, the thit, definitely. That thit is the thit!

I like the combo pork! I had two for lunch!

there's places that actually do these NOT made to order??

drove 1.5 hrs to get some today. totally worth it.

I've seen some lonely-looking premade banh mi in a display case at a Vietnamese market/deli I go to in Memphis, is why I asked. I figured it wasn't SOP, but asked to be sure.

yeah i think much of the allure is the freshly toasted baguette which would get soggy and mushy if prepacked and left to sit with roast or steamed port, veggies, egg, headcheese and pate.

http://static.flickr.com/43/75011136_07f35b77b8_o.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/maria714/242503317/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maria714/242503309/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ifindoubt/4744481677/

yes those are fantastic!
snow-country child! delicious

iced vietnamese coffee is super easy to make at home!

go to chinatown and get: 1. vietnamese coffee filter (like a buck or two) 2. the condensed milk can with the fat old chinese guy logo 3. cafe du monde or trung nguyen coffee

fill the coffee filter with coffee just to the top of the screw (so you can't actually screw on the filter part), pour about 1/2 inch of condensed milk into a glass, put the filter on top of glass and pour boiling water into it. when it's done mix, then pour into a glass full of ice cubes. there you go.

mmmm condensed milk

yeah you will probably get diabetes within a year if you have it every day but mmmm

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3636/3371500990_cfe8277e35.jpg?v=0

these ones from this place in ft lee are redic

total overkill but still good

should i tell you my MAGIKAL vietnamese coffee substitute for condensed milk or not? hrmmm

Only place that serves these in my town charges waaay too much and they are pretty small, imo.
Feel like I am missing out, big time.

brought home 4 banh mi from quang in mpls, $2.50 each and amazing (but better at home with added cheese & hot sauce, toasted). also coconut bread and casava cake!

got one today $2.50, yup

also HAMBAO

holy shit how is that the first mention of ham bao on ilx?

maybe they are called hum bao? only jaq talks about them

googling these they look like the same thing as char siu bao? i have love for them

also lol at the url of the first result on google - www.goonswithspoons.com/Home_Baked_Char_Siu_Bao_(Hum_Bao)

someone fix the thread title already

if they are the same as char siu buns I believe they are covered here

ROAST PORK BUN

The vietnamese kinda-related version is called "banh bao" which I guess I can see people hear as "ham bao" but that's probably something different.

I know that "banh" is just the transliteration of "pan-" from panis but I always wondered if "bao" might be related to "pao" from the portuguese?

Just research and post fun facts about B... Read Moreánh Mì

Steve, Wiki says it comes from Cantonese immigrants importing Tai Pao to Vietnam.

wait what?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banh_bao

oh... i'm just talking about the etymology of "bao", just wondering if it's roots are in latin/portuguese (like "banh" <= "pan-").

I'm glad thread title was changed bc I spell this wrong all the time and thread wasn't helping

I don't eat as many of these any more tho. But when I do go to my reg place, the owner guy is still happy to see me! aw

is it true http://i54.tinypic.com/11l4yvn.gif got sonned in a FB banh mi misspelling beef?

― (*ﾟーﾟ)θ L(。･＿･)　　　°~ヾ(･ε･ *) (Steve Shasta), Thursday, July 23, 2009 3:05 PM

oh... i'm just talking about the etymology of "bao", just wondering if it's roots are in latin/portuguese (like "banh" <= "pan-").

While not giving a definitive response, I surmise from that article that bao stems from 'pao'. Also I'd bet that while Japanese got the word from the Portuguese, Vietnamese got it from the French 'pain'.

pro tip, if you really want to be with it you should romanize 大包 as 'daai baau' or if you want to retain the older spelling, 'dai bao'

tai pao is some wrong peking shit

The "o" in the portuguese "pao" has the tilde over it which is pronounced with an "N" sound (pao = "pan"). nb: not fluent at all in portuguese.

also: Portuguese were trading with VN (and japan, china, most of east asia) a few centuries prior to the French invasion iirc.

yo hold the fuck up y'all! the sign at Vietnam's Deli quite clearly says "HAM BAO"

also they look like this:

http://www.worldhum.com/images/c_uploads/xiao_long_bao.jpg

not like the ones in the roast pork bun thread although the filling looks the same

that is a xiao long bao (as stated in the img url)... it's a shanghainese/taiwanese soup dumpling, definitely not vietnamese.

right i used to get them fro a chinese place (that billed them as "ham bao" too), but i got i'm pretty sure the place i got them at yesterday called "Vietnam's Deli" might just be vietnamese

i asked a person who is an authority on these matters what a "hum bao" was and she said "i have no idea but my friend in seattle talks about them"... sounds regional, a quick google shows mostly pac nw references. i tried to google in chinese "呀包" (crying dumpling) and nothing culinary showed up, mostly purses and handbags lol.

this thread confirms it may be a PacNW regional name for a cha siu bao:
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/57546

ha. for the record i've had them in portland and in suburban seattle. i guess that explains why jaq is the only other person to mention them before. she's a seattle person.

pro tip: you can only get good xiao long bao in china

sounds good brb

pro tip: you can only get good xiao long bao in china

― dayo, Tuesday, November 16, 2010 11:02 PM (37 minutes ago)

ehhhh depends on whether you consider Taiwan part of China or not!

have you ever been to a Din Tai Fung?

been to one in HK and beijing, haven't been to an OG one or an LA one

sorry for not being in china

its okay I still like you

dy how did your experiences at DTF rank compared to your gold standard?

it was pretty dece but I'm not a huge xiao long bao fan in general, I would rank it up there though, never been to shanghai so I can't say I've quested for the real stuff in hole in the wall places

i am a MASSIVE xlb fan, there's this place in SF that kills it but it's $$$. Which might be a blessing because if it was cheaper I'd be there 94/7.

weird about hum bao being local slang, always assumed that they were called that everywhere. delicious in any event. weird thing is that they vary quite a bit in appearance, size and preparation, but are still always called hum bao around here.

i am eating one right now. it is delicious and my stomach is smiling.

ty vietnamese gf

o hai