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ScoopJohnD
08-31-2009, 01:18 PM
So, Saturday evening I'm roaming the city by Little Italy and Chinatown and I'm starving. But I don't want to spend alot. And I remember reading about this Vietnamese sandwich called a Bahn Mi and this little hole in wall that I had passed by a few times.

I go in and it is a hole in the wall. A counter, 2 coolers with soda and drinks, spare soda stock piled up and that's about it. I order my sandwich and since the place is so friggin small I start to examine the place and I see these a bunch of yellow/orange cans of coffee. I closer look reveals what?

They're cans of Cafe Du Monde coffee!!!! I ask how much and the very nice gentleman behind the counter tells me 4.99 a can!!!! I'll be back for a few cans for sure.

And the sandwiches are F#%$%ing UNBELIEVABLY good, huge, and it was 3.95.

Here's the place.

http://www.cheapassfood.com/eats/show/310
tabasco
08-31-2009, 01:53 PM
Nice find Scoop!

Cheapassfood.Com! Lol!
ScoopJohnD
08-31-2009, 02:09 PM
Having been in the place I personally got a big laugh reading the description on that link and discovering that the place is "newly renovated" ! :)
Zydekitten
08-31-2009, 02:19 PM
We have some excellent Vietnamese restaurants down here on the Westbank (we particularly like Tan Dinh) and in New Orleans East that feature totally delish Banh Mi - in fact a lot of folks down here call them "Vietnamese Po-Boys" . . .

:D
ScoopJohnD
08-31-2009, 02:33 PM
We have some excellent Vietnamese restaurants down here on the Westbank (we particularly like Tan Dinh) and in New Orleans East that feature totally delish Banh Mi - in fact a lot of folks down here call them "Vietnamese Po-Boys" . . .

:D

I was speaking with amyloves last night and that's exactly how I described the sandwich!

I know there is a pretty good sized Vietnamese population in N.O. so I imagine they are yummy there too.
mwgirlonherown
08-31-2009, 02:44 PM
Do they serve Amber?
ScoopJohnD
08-31-2009, 02:53 PM
Do they serve Amber?

Ha! :) Not this one. But maybe the New Orleans shops do.

http://bestofneworleans.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A43471
Zydekitten
08-31-2009, 03:02 PM
I was speaking with amyloves last night and that's exactly how I described the sandwich!

I know there is a pretty good sized Vietnamese population in N.O. so I imagine they are yummy there too.
They are indeed! I'm especially fond of the lemongrass chicken Banh Mi at Tan Dinh, I also love their Pho.

I don't know if they serve Ambah, as I usually get Asian beer there to go with my Asian Po-Boy . . . :D
revjimk
08-31-2009, 07:53 PM
I think lots of Vietnamese came to the Gulf Coast first & then moved on to other parts of the US.
Similar experience in Denver: I discovered CDM coffee at a Vietnamese grocery here, probably while looking for fish stock (Or parts) for gumbo. No fish stock, but CDM java!
rev