Banh Mi [Bread] - Street Food Of Vietnamese

After  passing 4000 years of war and domination, Vietnamese  began to contribute the period of pain relief and economic development. The first of the opened economy stage, everything was hard to change the regime. Vietnamese were extremely poor at that time. Fortunately, Vietnam is one of the leading countries about producing and exporting rice. So rice and cassava root are extremely close to Vietnamese.

I was born and raised in the suburbs of Saigon where was detached to a separated district of Ho Chi Minh City ...

Maybe born in Vietnam's economic development period, in the first 20 year, Vietnamese economic is quite difficult. At that time, Vietnamese money has not had inflation yet, I remember 200 VND, 500 Vnd was also worth, could buy a lot of things. Kids, children in my neighborhood or my schoolmates saw  bread or called as "Banh Mi" as a daily breakfast. Maybe because the price of a loaf of "Banh Mi" is much cheaper than others. "Pho" was considered a luxury food,  a child who has not earned any money yet, had to ask my parents like me hard to eat it.

Banh Mi is very familiar with the labor class to the knowledge class. Banh Mi is found everywhere in every corner from stores to the small cart, Vietnamese is prefer Banh Mi because of its price, quality and convenience.

SHAPES OF VIETNAMESE BANH MI

Vietnamese often has Banh Mi in the morning, but they also have Banh Mi at lunch or evening because they can buy it everywhere, everytime. Banh Mi is made by flour as main material. Banh Mi has many shapes like:

Traditional shape:

Round shape:

Stick shape:

Banh Mi can be eaten seperate, combined with inside foods or combined with soup.

STYLES OF VIETNAMESE BANH MI

Depending on your favorite, you can eat Banh Mi combine with meat, fish, egg or jambon. Each style of Banh Mi has distinctive taste. I recommend you should try all. You will not regret it. Sure!

"Banh Mi kep thit" - It means bread is combined to pork, pate,butter, cucumber, spring onion, cilantro and sauce. Pork is marinated in especial sauce then cooking in fire. So mixed ford is red and very delicious. Banh Mi is hot and crunchy. It is a perfect combination between the green of vegetable, the red of ford and the yellow of bread.

Banh Mi kep thit

"Banh Mi cha" - It means bread has also pork inside but this pork was decorticated with spices. Ater that taking this pork puree is covered by leafs, streamed in the pot then cut it to lots of peices. Similar to " Banh Mi kep thit", Banh Mi cha contains "cha", pate, butter, cucumber, spring onion, cilantro and sauce. You can add more pepper if you like.

Banh mi cha

Cha 

" Banh Mi op la" - This style is the most simple. It means bread contains omelet and sauce. It is similar to breakfast bread of Western people.

Banh Mi Op la

BANH MI CAN COMBINE WITH SOUPS

In Vietnam, there are many way to enjoy Banh Mi replace to rice. Vietnamese eats Banh Mi with Bo Kho, Cari, beef soup mixed pate, Pha lau,... 

Banh Mi Bo Kho

Banh Mi Pha Lau

Cari 

Banh Mi dips these soup make them more delicious. These soup are eaten hot is the best.

It does not lie when people said that Banh mi is famous around the world because of its attraction. I used to eat it when I was a child. Still now I haven't stop love it. If you are curious about it, let get it now. I hope I can take you to eat Banh Mi when you visit to Vietnam. If not, you can enjoy it in your nation. Don't forget to share your feeling about Banh Mi to me. And If you don't mind, feel free to share your favourite food to me. I will enjoy it in future. 

Trangie Nguyen