Bánh mì literally translates to bread in Vietnamese, so the Vietnamese baguette is the most iconic part of this sandwich — cotton-soft in the middle and with a paper-thin crust on the outside. In ...
Baguettes reached Vietnam via French colonizers in the mid-19 th century but were a luxury due to the price of imported wheat. To save money during World War I, Vietnamese bakers began mixing cheap ...
Alyssa and Kim Nquyen. Picture: Evan Morgan “We thought it would be a great opportunity to come in and offer banh mi and Vietnamese coffees,” she says. “What makes the coffee so good is the ...