A Vietnamese sandwich shop classic, tender pork gets marinated in a sweet fish sauce-based marinade before being quick-grilled and stuffed into a sandwich with jalapeño peppers, pickled carrots and daikon radish, and cilantro. Personally, I'd also stick in a fat stick of cucumber for its fresh crunch. This recipe works fine in crisp French bread, but if you can find a real banh mi-style rice flour baguette, all the better. More

Cali Baguette Express is more sub shop than typical bahn mi joint, offering 16 banh mi options—everything from Cajun shrimp to turkey pesto, rotisserie chicken, and even tuna. The usual suspects, like pork loaf with pate, are also available, but I always go for the BBQ pork banh mi ($3). And yes, just $3. More

This almost-banh-mi has many of the same trappings as the popular Vietnamese sandwich we know and love. The juicy pork meatballs on this Hoi An Meatball Sandwich ($8.50) pack a lot of flavor. The meat has a pronounced porkiness as well as an unexpected crunch from diced jicama. The meatballs are simmered in tomato sauce which lends a little heat as well as the addictive stink of fish sauce. More

You may recognize this one from our best-in-the-US sandwich roundup recently. But frankly, if someone had asked me to name a city where you could get a great banh mi sandwich, Cincinnati wouldn't come to mind first. This cold cut version at Pho Lang Thang just outside Findlay Market is pretty stellar. More

There's been a lot of buzz around town surrounding the opening of Chipotle's new Southeast Asia-inspired ShopHouse, despite the company's best efforts to keep it under wraps. While it's still unclear as to why CEO Steve Ells would open the first (and only planned) location here in D.C., residents seem to be pretty pleased about it. I put my math-minded friend in charge of ordering to make sure we got every ingredient in every category in at least one bowl and banh mi. More

A few months ago I threw out the idea that Mei Sum Inc. in Boston's Chinatown makes one of the best bánh mì around. Some of you agreed, and some of you weren't shy about telling me I was dead wrong. In an effort to start it up all over again, I'm going to put myself out there and say that my other favorite bánh mì is the grilled pork sandwich from Pho Viet in Allston's Super 88 food court. Here's my case. More

There's been a lot of chatter (here and elsewhere) about bánh mì this past week, which naturally prompted me to go eat my favorite version from Mei Sum in Boston's Chinatown. While the barbecued beef sandwich at Mei Sum is just so-so. But their fried tofu bánh mì? That can't be touched. More

Ok, so I'm gonna pull an Adam and pull out the Truth Hammer for this one. Pardon me as I sputter indignantly in public for a moment. Was anyone else flabbergasted at the appalling lack of reporting, knowledge, and taste displayed in New York Times writer Jordan Michelman's recent article about bánh mì modestly titled "Banh Mi In America"? Reading through it the other night, I was so shocked at the level of ignorance and the misinformation displayed that I was compelled to shoot off an email to Chichi, Robyn, and Tam just to vent. Never mind that his choices for best bánh mì in the country are... puzzling (you don't have to take my word for it: OC... More

What type of cuisine does the Nom Nom Truck in Los Angeles serve? The kind that makes you go nom-nom-nom (feel free to throw in a few more noms). "It's so good you have to make a noise," say the founders Misa and Jennifer. In this video, Spike.com's Food Dude Will Greenberg visits the truck to make lemongrass chicken bahn mis. More

Note: It's time for another edition of Street Food Profiles. This week we meet a banh mi truck. [Photographs: Nom Nom Truck] Name: Nom Nom Truck Vendor: David Stankunas Twitter: @nomnomtruck Location and hours: All over Los Angeles for lunch, evening, and late-night. Primarily we've been heading out to west Los Angeles, but we still get to places like Hollywood, mid-Wilshire, Koreatown, Silver Lake and Torrance. What's on the menu? Banh mi, Vietnamese-inspired tacos (basically a banh mi in a corn tortilla instead of bread), and various other Vietnamese snacks and drinks. How long have you been street fooding? For about 5 weeks. How has Twitter affected business? Twitter is a huge part of our business. Not only is it... More