Oh yeah–and I had a Vietnamese sandwich in San Fran. Of course it wasn’t as good as our regular joint, because it didn’t have the crumbly pork sausage, but it was still damn good for a corporate catered lunch situation (the situation I was in last week). I got a little worried when “soy sauce” was listed on the possible condiments NOT to include, so I wrote “extra fish sauce, please” on my order, in hopes of encouraging authenticity. Who knows if that had any effect, but I was pleased with my sammie, and filled with envy that a Vietnamese sandwich was even on the corporate lunch menu–they’re so not on the radar here.

The excellent, recently noticed blog Daily Gluttony also has a very good report on banh mi.