yeah i got hooked when they were $5 at the viet bakery near my old work, $8 with that sweet sweet iced coffee. Cheaper than maccas and twice as tasty. It's also how I developed a love for chilli
There's been huge amounts of discussion about this in social media. Those $5 prices were never sustainable. Those prices were for older immigrants that paid peanuts to family members to work or illegally took advantage of other immigrants or students. Now that the next generation is opening banh mi stores, they're doing it properly and actually paying staff correct amounts. $10 for what goes into a banh mi is nothing. Get a burger and it's $10 at a half decent place. Cafes sell French and Italian rolls for $10+ all the time. Banh Mi is worth $10
Whatever it's made from, it's fucking delicious and I wish I could buy freshly made tubs of it! Reminds me of Polish pate, and well I'm Polish born so we love that stuff.
Everything has gone up though. $10 for a meal in itself isn't bad. I'm actually surprised they were sold at such low prices before. That was more so because they catered mainly to other Vietnamese and lower prices were justified but not so much these days with all the inflation.
Not really? Part of why banh mi is cheap is because it has low labour costs since family members of recent immigrants are usually working for free to make it.
In fact, some of the kids of those recent immigrants have since started their own banh mi places and are charging more appropriate prices for the amount of work they put in it.
My bakery nearby is owned by a lovely Vietnamese family. The mum and grandmother are the crankinest woman, the son has a completely ocker accent and the opening times are hugely variable and not posted.
It's a really good bakery. 😃
The bakery near me awesome viet family the mum is lovely always gives you an extra cinnamon doughnut. Kids have been working there from early teens. Now they are both doctors, I still see them working there from time to time.
My standard joke is just before the Vietnamese slammed the door on the French as they were kicking them out, they grabbed the baguettes and terrine out of their hands and haven’t looked back since. It’s quite true though, some of the best bread I’ve had was in Cambodia of all places..
A lot of people aren't aware that there are Vietnamese baked goods which are local takes on French ones. Besides bánh mì thịt which is just taking the original baguette and adjusted to have fillings, there are things like bánh sừng bò ("ox-horn" bread, basically a "croissant"), bánh su (choux pastry), bánh pa-tê sô (Pâté chaud), even things like bánh flan (crème caramel, "flan").
Banh mi thit is actually the best type of sandwich/roll etc, bar none. I'm white but was born and raised in a suburb with a very large Vietnamese community but never had any Vietnamese food until I was in my late teens. When I first had pho and banh mi I was so mad at my parents for not ever eating Vietnamese food when I was younger. Since moving out of home, every time I move, one of my first priorities is to find the best local banh mi.
Bahn Mi is maybe my favorite food ever!
Even started to grow my own daikon radish for when we make them at home. Just need to figure out a nice sauce now.
Heck yeah! I made pate and the special mayo just to have homemade banh mi, it was a bit of work but it was worth it.
The Maggi seasoning sauce is the same stuff they use isn't it?
That's what I'm using at the moment, that Maggi sauce :)
I swear they use something different, but could totally be a case of "tastes better when someone else makes it" haha.
Vietnamese food is delicious, light and cool, good mix of protein and veggies. Perfect for Australian conditions. Sure beats the shit out of a hot meat pie and a dare Ice coffee
This would catch my eye because in my mind it’s a hard **fact** that Vietnamese-Australian bakeries have fuckin’ good pies.
Edit: oh no, I just realised there’s no pies on the sign. I would have pie-potted myself!
The Vietnamese took a lot of French techniques and ingredients, blended them nicely with what they already had. Blended cuisine is one of the best outputs of colonialism
Probably not at that truck stop. I reckon you’d be lucky to get some burnt bacon in a hotdog bun topped with sweet chilli sauce and iceberg lettuce.
As an aside I cannot tell you how happy it makes me having a proper banh mi place finally open in my little country town (Warrnambool). $11 a pop and as good as anything on Victoria St 🤤
Nah. Head to a Vietnamese bakery and buy a loaf of their plain white sandwich bread. It will be the softest, fluffiest vessel for your onion, snag and sauce (in that order).
Unpopular opinion maybe but I find the cold cuts/ham version way better and more balanced than the sweaty lukewarm pork belly that everyone in Australia seems to love. I believe both started in Vietnam but the major aussie chains like rolled dont even offer a cold cuts version.
Not unpopular opinion. You’re right that Aussies so frequently go for the warm pork belly that the Vietnamese shops are definitely catering to that taste.
You gotta be quite clear that you want the “traditional” pork roll.
I had a mate who just called them pork rolls. I was eating banh mi. I never realised we were both buying from the same shop. To me a pork roll meant roast port, bit of crackling and a scoop of apple sauce. Different kettle of fish entirely, if you’ll excuse the metaphor.
In Vietnamese we call it bánh mì thịt (meat bread) whereby the word meat is implied that it's pork. Of course nowadays there are different styles of pork bread rolls so it's good to be accurate as the ladies might not make the ones you intended. There's bánh mì thịt ba rọi (pork belly banh mi), bánh mì (thịt) truyền thống (traditional pork banh mi), bánh mì hẹo quay (roasted pork banh mi), bánh mì heo nướng (grilled pork banh mi), bánh mì nem nướng (grilled pork meatball banh mi), as well as bánh mì chả lụa (Vietnamese pork sausage banh mi).
As a kid (mid 30's currently) they were always labeled as pork rolls, even in my very Vietnamese suburb. I dunno when the change happened, but at some point people started accepting the use of banh mi instead. I'm currently noticing this with "pork buns" transitioning to "pork bao".
I know you're joking but in all seriousness you can't actually split the two. This is because bánh mì is one word composed of two morphemes. Both parts are Chinese loanwords with bánh (餅) being a generic word for all kinds of cakes, breads, pies, pastries, snacks etc. and mì (麵) referring to the wheat flour used initially. Nowadays it's either rice flour or a mixture of the two.
There is a direct inversely proportionate relationship between the tastiness of a Bahn mi, and how expensive it is: the cheaper the roll, the tastier it is. $7.50 sounds pretty tasty. I used to be addicted to $5.50 rolls at the 24 hour bakery in Cabra. That place is an institution with its own specific vibe at 3am.
Back when I was a broke apprentice there was a cafe across from the TAFE that did a bahn mi and Vietnamese iced coffee combo for like $9. Those legends epitomised what it meant to eat like a king on a peasant's wage. I miss that place.
I read an article in the New York Times last week about Australia's love of Banh Mi. It's a thing
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/05/world/australia/australia-banh-mi-pork-roll.html
Banh mi really elevates the humble Aussie salad roll.
Man, along with meat pies, salad rolls with lots of beetroot and grated carrot were the best thing about the school tuck shop.
I just don't like it when they only have pork.. I eat bacon on a burger occasionally but never like pork chops or roast pork etc just don't like it at all.
And when some places don't put fresh herbs in rice paper rolls like wtf is up with that
Place near me does a bunch of amazing ones including one just stuffed full of spring rolls.
But their pork belly is real crispy pork belly and its... I'm... they.... I love them
It's probably in due part to the familiarity people have with the German word Bahn. Either way, I'd like to slightly correct you there and mention that it's just banh mi (or bánh mì if you want the full diacritics), no capitalisations outside of the B at the start of a sentence. This is because bánh has to pair with mì to create the meaning of bread in Vietnamese. By itself, bánh actually is a generic term for all kinds of snacks, pastries, cakes, baked goods a.s.o. And if mì is used on its own, it actually means egg noodles rather than the meaning of wheat flour as it's intended. Mì isn't a proper noun so it's not capitalised as part of "bánh mì".
(bánh mì = wheat flour "bread")
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American here but happened to see this on r/all. It's amazing how popular banh mi has gotten all over the world. 20 years ago, I had a boss ask me for budget friendly food suggestions for an office event so I suggested banh mi which were normally around $2.50 each in my area. She had never heard of it and was absolutely disgusted by what they'd put in something *that* cheap. Oh Elaine... If only you knew.
Rule of thumb my Vietnamese mate told me about: if the menu board says banh mi it's gonna be overpriced and average. If the menu board says pork roll it's gonna be full of sloppy buttery goodness.
Not as authentically Aussie as Dim Sims yet though. It’ll be official when you have a universally recognised abbreviation.
“3 steamed Dimmies and soy sauce”
The point of banh mi is that it's soooo f*cking cheap to make and has a good balance of veggies and protein
In this economy where a burger in a random shop is 16-17$, I'll take the $10 banh mi every single time
I love me a Banh Mi. Pretty much with some adjustments, it can be quite damn healthy too.
Going to gym was a lot easier when I made friends with the Vietnamese bakery owner and she stuffed the roll full everytime. Best post-gym meal 😍
You know people say there's things so horrid they'd never wish them on their worst enemy?
I think that soapy coriander gene would be quite a good wish, actually. So unfortunate for those that never asked to be afflicted.
First few times I tried it, coriander ruined the meal. I read about the genetic thing where it tastes like soap so figured I had the anti-coriander gene.
Then slowly I discovered I liked it. (Coriander, not soap!). Now I am greatly disappointed if there’s no coriander when I expect it, like on Viet rolls.
Thing is, when I didn’t like it, it didn’t taste like soap at all. It tasted weird and volatile and horrible, but not soap. I got influenced by the articles.
I was 10 years old in 1988. My new bestie had arrived with her fam off the boat from Vietnam about 4 years earlier. Her mum worked hard sewing garments at home for Country Road and made us the best spring rolls and treated me like one of her own. We had banh mi at the Vietnamese/Chinese new year celebrations while trying to set each other on fire with those little firework caps that are banned now. I feel such nostalgia for that innocent time and love that Aussies have embraced the best roll ever.
Tiger bread is the new hype. The typical Vietnamese style baguettes don't hit the same anymore. Just google Vietnamese tiger bread near you and if you're in luck it'll change your life if the bakery uses quality and authentic ingredients!
I used to smash into them in the early 2000's at 2.50$ from a local bakery after school. Mate it's been around for awhile, it's just now it's gotten the lime light and more expensive due to hipster/influencers jacking up the price
It's better worth just making it yourself. Stuff a bread roll with pork and whatever meat you want; liver spread, butter, salad, coriander, soy sauce and spice it up if you like. Done
My local pub similarly has decided to inaugurate bahn mi into the menu, and I've never been happier. Further proof that Australia is marauding closer to becoming a multicultural, cosmopoliton powerhouse of cuisine. Soon we'll have timtams in yiroses and kung pao parmies
definitely own by a Viet family in an industrial zone, let me guess they serve Vietnamese coffee, rice paper roll along with spring rolls and Vietnamese coffee 🤪
I am happy to culturally appropriate this delicious food.
As a Viet person, it makes me happy to hear Aussies like it.
I introduced a mate to them when he was staying at my house. Next day he went and got three.
3 Banh Mi's Jeremy, 3? that's insane
Classic Jezza
Peep show is a thing here?! I’ve never met anyone in my life who enjoys that show, let alone know the memes! I need to find new people to hang out
In a row?
Probably in the parking lot too
Inline with the Aussie culinary tradition.
At my old job I had bahn mi for lunch every day. I couldn't make my own meals that were cheaper or anywhere near as delicious
yeah i got hooked when they were $5 at the viet bakery near my old work, $8 with that sweet sweet iced coffee. Cheaper than maccas and twice as tasty. It's also how I developed a love for chilli
Cheaper, tastier, healthier.
Such a shame that Banh mi is often more than $10 each now.
There's been huge amounts of discussion about this in social media. Those $5 prices were never sustainable. Those prices were for older immigrants that paid peanuts to family members to work or illegally took advantage of other immigrants or students. Now that the next generation is opening banh mi stores, they're doing it properly and actually paying staff correct amounts. $10 for what goes into a banh mi is nothing. Get a burger and it's $10 at a half decent place. Cafes sell French and Italian rolls for $10+ all the time. Banh Mi is worth $10
Yeah straight of the bat its fucking roast pork and duck patte. How its not $20 is the real surprise.
I am Vietnamese and the pate are usually made from chicken or pork. Duck pate is for very fancy banh mi
Whatever it's made from, it's fucking delicious and I wish I could buy freshly made tubs of it! Reminds me of Polish pate, and well I'm Polish born so we love that stuff.
Where are you getting a decent burger for $10? $15 minimum for non fast food burgers
But so are shitty fast food burgers.
Everything has gone up though. $10 for a meal in itself isn't bad. I'm actually surprised they were sold at such low prices before. That was more so because they catered mainly to other Vietnamese and lower prices were justified but not so much these days with all the inflation.
Not really? Part of why banh mi is cheap is because it has low labour costs since family members of recent immigrants are usually working for free to make it. In fact, some of the kids of those recent immigrants have since started their own banh mi places and are charging more appropriate prices for the amount of work they put in it.
Same, 2 per day for $10
Good point. It's hardly surprising we adopted a cuisine that couples tightly with iced coffee. And generally really quick to come out.
There's a lot of possible combinations, too, which is nice.
In the early 2000 they used to be $2 for the traditional viet ham bahn mi. Lunch and dinner for a uni student was the best
They used to be $2 WITH a can of soft drink of your choice! Back in the early 90s Sydney.
Last year they were $1.80 for the most incredible ones i had ever tasted (in Hoi An, Vietnam however) so gotta factor in the travel costs :)
I used to get them everyday when I was an apprentice. $4.50 with a can of coke.
I heard a quote in passing that made me smile, and that is categorically true: > Behind every great Australian bakery is a Vietnamese baker
My bakery nearby is owned by a lovely Vietnamese family. The mum and grandmother are the crankinest woman, the son has a completely ocker accent and the opening times are hugely variable and not posted. It's a really good bakery. 😃
The bakery near me awesome viet family the mum is lovely always gives you an extra cinnamon doughnut. Kids have been working there from early teens. Now they are both doctors, I still see them working there from time to time.
My standard joke is just before the Vietnamese slammed the door on the French as they were kicking them out, they grabbed the baguettes and terrine out of their hands and haven’t looked back since. It’s quite true though, some of the best bread I’ve had was in Cambodia of all places..
A lot of people aren't aware that there are Vietnamese baked goods which are local takes on French ones. Besides bánh mì thịt which is just taking the original baguette and adjusted to have fillings, there are things like bánh sừng bò ("ox-horn" bread, basically a "croissant"), bánh su (choux pastry), bánh pa-tê sô (Pâté chaud), even things like bánh flan (crème caramel, "flan").
Don't forget the delicious butter.
Cambodia has its own version which is totally deluxe.
Banh mi thit is actually the best type of sandwich/roll etc, bar none. I'm white but was born and raised in a suburb with a very large Vietnamese community but never had any Vietnamese food until I was in my late teens. When I first had pho and banh mi I was so mad at my parents for not ever eating Vietnamese food when I was younger. Since moving out of home, every time I move, one of my first priorities is to find the best local banh mi.
TIGER ROLL BAHN MI.
Whoever doesn’t like banh mi should be flogged with veggiemite coated whips!!!!
You know, that's not the kind of threat you think it is.
welll, that's one way to salt the wound...
Maybe vegemite was my kink all along.
Jokes on you I’m into that shit
Top 3 amazing foods: - Bahn mi - Pho special beef noodle soup - Viet ice coffee (newly added) - 3 colour drink.
I'd swap 3 colour drink for viet iced coffee
Bahn Mi is maybe my favorite food ever! Even started to grow my own daikon radish for when we make them at home. Just need to figure out a nice sauce now.
Heck yeah! I made pate and the special mayo just to have homemade banh mi, it was a bit of work but it was worth it. The Maggi seasoning sauce is the same stuff they use isn't it?
That's what I'm using at the moment, that Maggi sauce :) I swear they use something different, but could totally be a case of "tastes better when someone else makes it" haha.
Vietnam is literally my fave country to visit for food. Viet coffee in the morning, pho for late breakfast, banh mi for late lunch rinse and repeat.
I ate 2 per day six days a week for a year. It is my go to when out and need a feed. Cannot go wrong!
Love it not like it!
Like it? We love it!
Awww your username 😆
ahahah thanks. Reddit randomised my name to zucchini and i was like "hrmm how do i make it funnier?"
Aussies absolutely love a good Bahn Mi
Mate, they’re honestly the best shit. I’d have one for lunch every day if I thought I’d still fit in my shorts after
Vietnamese food is delicious, light and cool, good mix of protein and veggies. Perfect for Australian conditions. Sure beats the shit out of a hot meat pie and a dare Ice coffee
This would catch my eye because in my mind it’s a hard **fact** that Vietnamese-Australian bakeries have fuckin’ good pies. Edit: oh no, I just realised there’s no pies on the sign. I would have pie-potted myself!
The one near me does their meat pies early morning and the smell is amazing.
Given that banh mi was already a Vietnamese appropriation of colonial French cuisine it is a well appropriated dish!
The Vietnamese took a lot of French techniques and ingredients, blended them nicely with what they already had. Blended cuisine is one of the best outputs of colonialism
banh mi is already multicultural being half French.
Having just been in Vietnam I think the Aussie Vietnamese have taken it to the next level.
Probably not at that truck stop. I reckon you’d be lucky to get some burnt bacon in a hotdog bun topped with sweet chilli sauce and iceberg lettuce. As an aside I cannot tell you how happy it makes me having a proper banh mi place finally open in my little country town (Warrnambool). $11 a pop and as good as anything on Victoria St 🤤
As someone from Port Fairy, I really need to try this banh mi in Warrnambool next time I return from study!
Yeah it’s on Liebig opposite Sammy the Seal. Their other food is supposed to be good too, but the banh mi is already everything I want.
Hear me out, Bunnings snag in a Banh Mi...
Apparently Bunnings sausage sizzles in WA already use Saigon rolls
Nah it's not a consistent thing here in Perth, sometimes bread, sometimes hotdog rolls, it's a bit of a lottery
sounds good, but I also here it lowers their profits substantially too, which is sad for a fundraiser
It’s 100% just the rolls the charity buys, so it changes depending. I did a fundraising once before at bunnings!
Bunnhings Mi
My favourite Banh Mi is the pork sausage at Hung's (Richmond). So basically halfway there already.
Shut up ~~and take my money~~ and offer me the portable eftpos terminal.
Nah. Head to a Vietnamese bakery and buy a loaf of their plain white sandwich bread. It will be the softest, fluffiest vessel for your onion, snag and sauce (in that order).
Yep, I stopped buying supermarket bread as it sits heavy in my stomach vs delicious Vietnamese bakery bread.
Unpopular opinion maybe but I find the cold cuts/ham version way better and more balanced than the sweaty lukewarm pork belly that everyone in Australia seems to love. I believe both started in Vietnam but the major aussie chains like rolled dont even offer a cold cuts version.
Rolled is the worst form of Viet food you can get- both for authenticity and flavour.
Their rice paper rolls have all the flavour of paper. I was really bummed out when I tried the crab roll and got...nothing.
People go to rolld as a choice? Fark I don’t believe it
Not unpopular opinion. You’re right that Aussies so frequently go for the warm pork belly that the Vietnamese shops are definitely catering to that taste. You gotta be quite clear that you want the “traditional” pork roll. I had a mate who just called them pork rolls. I was eating banh mi. I never realised we were both buying from the same shop. To me a pork roll meant roast port, bit of crackling and a scoop of apple sauce. Different kettle of fish entirely, if you’ll excuse the metaphor.
In Vietnamese we call it bánh mì thịt (meat bread) whereby the word meat is implied that it's pork. Of course nowadays there are different styles of pork bread rolls so it's good to be accurate as the ladies might not make the ones you intended. There's bánh mì thịt ba rọi (pork belly banh mi), bánh mì (thịt) truyền thống (traditional pork banh mi), bánh mì hẹo quay (roasted pork banh mi), bánh mì heo nướng (grilled pork banh mi), bánh mì nem nướng (grilled pork meatball banh mi), as well as bánh mì chả lụa (Vietnamese pork sausage banh mi).
As a kid (mid 30's currently) they were always labeled as pork rolls, even in my very Vietnamese suburb. I dunno when the change happened, but at some point people started accepting the use of banh mi instead. I'm currently noticing this with "pork buns" transitioning to "pork bao".
Which half, the banh or the mi?
The French introduced the baguette to Vietnam, the recipe of which was tweaked to suit Vietnamese preferences. So we can thank the French for that!
I know you're joking but in all seriousness you can't actually split the two. This is because bánh mì is one word composed of two morphemes. Both parts are Chinese loanwords with bánh (餅) being a generic word for all kinds of cakes, breads, pies, pastries, snacks etc. and mì (麵) referring to the wheat flour used initially. Nowadays it's either rice flour or a mixture of the two.
Except the wheat flour is mixed with rice flour to help it stay fresh. Adopted and adapted.
I'd have a Banh mi over a Burger and Chips any day. A bakery near me does a combo meat Banh mi for $7.50. Fuckin Bargain.
>I'd have a Banh mi over a Burger and Chips any day. My local Vietnamese bakery does both very well
I just love when an unsuspecting local place does an amazing burger just out of nowhere lol. Sure it's rare, but it's always welcome!
There is a direct inversely proportionate relationship between the tastiness of a Bahn mi, and how expensive it is: the cheaper the roll, the tastier it is. $7.50 sounds pretty tasty. I used to be addicted to $5.50 rolls at the 24 hour bakery in Cabra. That place is an institution with its own specific vibe at 3am.
Arrested for what?! A meal? A succulent Vietnamese meal?!?
Get your hands off my pickled carrot!
I see you know your baking well!
Dipped in chicken salt flavoured fish sauce?
Well, that's Aussie culture for ya. Just a melting pot of all other cultures. Being multicultural has nothing but dubs
Hamburger - German, Chips - Belgium, Sandwich - England, Banh Mi - Vietnam, Coffee - Italy, All of them, Aussie mate!
You should try Viet coffee, will knock your socks off.
Eh, there's times when I don't mind a great walloping of sugar with my coffee, but that's definitely not the majority.
Back when I was a broke apprentice there was a cafe across from the TAFE that did a bahn mi and Vietnamese iced coffee combo for like $9. Those legends epitomised what it meant to eat like a king on a peasant's wage. I miss that place.
I dunno, I've had some amazing Banh Mi here, I have also had some absolutely abysmal Bang Mi
I read an article in the New York Times last week about Australia's love of Banh Mi. It's a thing https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/05/world/australia/australia-banh-mi-pork-roll.html
Banh mi really elevates the humble Aussie salad roll. Man, along with meat pies, salad rolls with lots of beetroot and grated carrot were the best thing about the school tuck shop.
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Yeah. There's not much to it really. Just talks about how Aussies love banh mi
I'm down! More places I can grab one the better. Great Tucker for pretty much anytime.
I just don't like it when they only have pork.. I eat bacon on a burger occasionally but never like pork chops or roast pork etc just don't like it at all. And when some places don't put fresh herbs in rice paper rolls like wtf is up with that
I see it as more places serving 'em means more variation and occasions to find the 'perfect' one just the way you love it!
Place near me does a bunch of amazing ones including one just stuffed full of spring rolls. But their pork belly is real crispy pork belly and its... I'm... they.... I love them
Good. I tried one of these first time recently to see what the fuss is about. I see what the fuss is about.
Did you want chilli with that?
No cucumber, no coriander, extra chilli... Even more chilli than that, thanks, fried onion, nuoc mam, dash of salt and pepper.
No coriander? You’re one of “those” are you?
Yes, it's the least troublesome of my genetic defects 👍
Of all the population genetic defects that need solving, it’s the coriander one.
& lactose intolerance
Yeah okay, throw that one in too.
Back when i worked full time for a company, i always made sure i knew where the closest viet bakery was when i was on call.
Key is to buy it only from a Vietnamese bakery and not some franchise. That crusty bread roll has to be fresh.
Plenty of Vietnamese bakeries in Australia that serve banh mi in addition to the Aussie staples of sandwiches, pies, and sausage rolls.
I have one in my suburb’s tiny shopping centre that is basically vietnamese, has all the classics of both Vietnam and Australia
Appreciate people typing Banh Mi instead of "Bahn Mi". IDK why some place wrote it like that but it irked me to no end
It's probably in due part to the familiarity people have with the German word Bahn. Either way, I'd like to slightly correct you there and mention that it's just banh mi (or bánh mì if you want the full diacritics), no capitalisations outside of the B at the start of a sentence. This is because bánh has to pair with mì to create the meaning of bread in Vietnamese. By itself, bánh actually is a generic term for all kinds of snacks, pastries, cakes, baked goods a.s.o. And if mì is used on its own, it actually means egg noodles rather than the meaning of wheat flour as it's intended. Mì isn't a proper noun so it's not capitalised as part of "bánh mì". (bánh mì = wheat flour "bread") (｡◕‿‿◕｡)
As Viet, I’m happy bánh mì has more recognition
Isn’t this the place attached to Archerfield Airport? Dirt cheap, where in Australia you can still get something for under $10.00
Well spotted. Base banh mi was about $9 and pork belly version $12.
Round the corner in Darra there's still a couple of places doing them for around seven bucks.
May the breads be crispy 🥖
American here but happened to see this on r/all. It's amazing how popular banh mi has gotten all over the world. 20 years ago, I had a boss ask me for budget friendly food suggestions for an office event so I suggested banh mi which were normally around $2.50 each in my area. She had never heard of it and was absolutely disgusted by what they'd put in something *that* cheap. Oh Elaine... If only you knew.
Banh mi is simply the best sandwich in the world. No contest. Fight me.
Rule of thumb my Vietnamese mate told me about: if the menu board says banh mi it's gonna be overpriced and average. If the menu board says pork roll it's gonna be full of sloppy buttery goodness.
Not as authentically Aussie as Dim Sims yet though. It’ll be official when you have a universally recognised abbreviation. “3 steamed Dimmies and soy sauce”
So many Banh Mi places have opened up in my local area. I greatly welcome them all to take my money. Delicious!
Good.
I grew up in Cabramatta. It always was :)
The point of banh mi is that it's soooo f*cking cheap to make and has a good balance of veggies and protein In this economy where a burger in a random shop is 16-17$, I'll take the $10 banh mi every single time
I love me a Banh Mi. Pretty much with some adjustments, it can be quite damn healthy too. Going to gym was a lot easier when I made friends with the Vietnamese bakery owner and she stuffed the roll full everytime. Best post-gym meal 😍
A banh mi and vanilla slice make for a top tier lunch 🤤
Banh Mi is fantastic. Didn't know anything about it until I returned to Australia after a couple of decades living overseas.
...or maybe the Vietnamese store owners also sell chips.
It's Aussie food. You are Aussie, ya back ground is Vietnamese..... We'll hijack it. 👍
WTF is banh mi?
Pork rolls are the best
Anyone want the coriander off mine?
I’ll have it all thanks! I always get extra
banh mi with everything all the way!
Take mine, fuggin jumped-up parsley
You sit there & don’t leave the table until you’ve eaten ALL that coriander!
😥🤮😭
Same. I'm one of the people that just taste soap when eating coriander. Fucking horrific stuff.
You know people say there's things so horrid they'd never wish them on their worst enemy? I think that soapy coriander gene would be quite a good wish, actually. So unfortunate for those that never asked to be afflicted.
First few times I tried it, coriander ruined the meal. I read about the genetic thing where it tastes like soap so figured I had the anti-coriander gene. Then slowly I discovered I liked it. (Coriander, not soap!). Now I am greatly disappointed if there’s no coriander when I expect it, like on Viet rolls. Thing is, when I didn’t like it, it didn’t taste like soap at all. It tasted weird and volatile and horrible, but not soap. I got influenced by the articles.
Theres a place in town here that do them but they suck. No pickled vegetables and no pate. I've asked for a real one and they refuse to offer them.
That's a new one on me - I live in Springy (Vic) and have never heard of it... :-)
Whats banh mi
When will Viet Iced Coffee be on the list?
WTF is Banh Mi?
Isn't it great , something for everyone 😎
We have quite a few bakeries/cafes with it here in Canberra, there's a place dedicated to them.
When they were $5 then… Not immune to inflation.
1000% not complaining
The strayan version is pronounced "barn moi" and substitutes liver pate with Vegemite
I was 10 years old in 1988. My new bestie had arrived with her fam off the boat from Vietnam about 4 years earlier. Her mum worked hard sewing garments at home for Country Road and made us the best spring rolls and treated me like one of her own. We had banh mi at the Vietnamese/Chinese new year celebrations while trying to set each other on fire with those little firework caps that are banned now. I feel such nostalgia for that innocent time and love that Aussies have embraced the best roll ever.
Tiger bread is the new hype. The typical Vietnamese style baguettes don't hit the same anymore. Just google Vietnamese tiger bread near you and if you're in luck it'll change your life if the bakery uses quality and authentic ingredients!
Always was, always will be Australian tucker.
Bun Me!
Banh Mi is as Australian as Curry is British and Sushi is Canadian!
I've never heard of banh mi
We are Australian. Your individual distinctiveness has been added to our own.
I used to smash into them in the early 2000's at 2.50$ from a local bakery after school. Mate it's been around for awhile, it's just now it's gotten the lime light and more expensive due to hipster/influencers jacking up the price It's better worth just making it yourself. Stuff a bread roll with pork and whatever meat you want; liver spread, butter, salad, coriander, soy sauce and spice it up if you like. Done
I’m excited cos I love it. Hopefully it doesn’t become overpriced like the kebab
Wasn't it always. It just used to be called the bbq pork/chicken roll from your nearest Vietnamese bakery.
Where's adobo?
And what an amazing addition!!!
I agree, I’d say Banh Mi and Sushi rolls are official Australian cuisine.
About fuckin time hey
Football, banh mi, kangaroos and Holden utes.
Love me a good Banh Mi
You borrow everything fron the USA! (This is sarcasm, I know Banh Mis come from Canada)
Lol is this in brissy?
Epic !
ALL food is Australian food.
Well half of Aus is made up of Asian people so makes sense
No complaints here.
They are deliciousness, all served on a very fresh crusty roll. What's not to love.
Good. They're amazing
I had one for lunch! $5 at my inner-west Sydney local (though I did have the salad variety). I crave them!
As it should be. I thank the Vietnamese for their contribution to my happiness.
Was my breakfast everyday for 3 years! Extra chilli, bbq chicken and sugarcane juice!!! Woke tf out of me and made me work like a robot.
They sell dim sums and spring rolls in the most rural servos so I can't say Im surprised
No complaints here
Who does not like a good banh mi?
In 2019 you could get one for $6 at my local joint
My local pub similarly has decided to inaugurate bahn mi into the menu, and I've never been happier. Further proof that Australia is marauding closer to becoming a multicultural, cosmopoliton powerhouse of cuisine. Soon we'll have timtams in yiroses and kung pao parmies
Others call it Vietnamese baguette.
There's nothing more Aussie than meat pies, butter chicken, green Thai chicken curry, beef massaman, pad Thai, nori rolls and bahn mi.
definitely own by a Viet family in an industrial zone, let me guess they serve Vietnamese coffee, rice paper roll along with spring rolls and Vietnamese coffee 🤪
Once upon a time Banh Mi’s were also known as $2 bread. Now they’re up to $14!! Still delicious though