{"id":76,"date":"2009-03-30T17:22:29","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T00:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.burritowings.com\/blog\/?p=76"},"modified":"2009-04-17T15:18:52","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T22:18:52","slug":"banh-mi-is-the-new-burrito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.burritowings.com\/blog\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"B\u00c3\u0081NH M\u00c3\u0152 IS THE NEW BURRITO"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When the burrito hunger<\/em> strikes it usually begs to be satiated with some sort of grilled meat. So it was something of a surprise when I recognized the hunger, but discovered that it was specifically for a super vegetarian burrito<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It has been years since I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had a veggie burrito. Of course, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not talking about some ridiculous burrito filled with actual vegetables<\/em>, rather I mean the San Francisco standby by of a super burrito, just without meat. I expected to soon be eating a flour tortilla filled with rice, beans, cheese, sour cream, salsa, onions\/cilantro, avocado, and maybe lettuce. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s it, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what I wanted. So I went off on a search for a menu item I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t had in years.<\/p>\n

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The weather being ridiculously nice in San Francisco lately, I decided to take a walk and do some burrito window-shopping. I ended up walking by three different places, all charging around six bucks for a super veg. I know its been a long time since I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had a veggie burrito, but six bucks<\/em>? No thank you. Instead of worrying about how cheap, cheap, cheap and cheap equals six bucks I informed my inner craving that it didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really want a super vegetarian burrito after all; what it really wanted was a b\u00c3\u00a1nh m\u00c3\u00ac. <\/p>\n

Vietnamese sandwiches have long been a staple of the San Francisco food scene, but this was the first time I tried to replace a burrito craving (especially a vegetarian<\/em> burrito craving) with a b\u00c3\u00a1nh m\u00c3\u00ac. Turns out it was exactly the right thing to do. Finding myself in Lee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Sandwiches<\/a> on Larkin, I ordered up a special combo<\/em> sandwich. Forming a delicious blend of contrasting textures, the crunchy baguette housed a mixture of meats and vegetables. Pork, p\u00c3\u00a2t\u00c3\u00a9 and pork skin (sort of a headcheese) played nicely with cilantro sprigs, daikon and carrots. The fantastic crunch of the bread was countered by the smooth gelatinous headcheese and the satisfying snap of the vegetables. A few scattered peppers tied the whole sandwich together. The sandwich was so large that a thinly sliced cucumber placed on top failed to reach the whole length across.<\/p>\n

The aptly named sandwich has become a popular food item and may be nothing new, but this particular sandwich really hit the spot. I was not expecting an experience so delicious considering my original mission was to find a simple vegetarian super burrito. The special combo<\/em> (a.k.a. dac biet<\/em>) isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t necessarily challenging to eat, but I would have thought it to be light years from a non-meat burrito. My craving however, was more than satisfied. This can only mean one thing: B\u00c3\u0081NH M\u00c3\u0152 IS THE NEW BURRITO. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the burrito hunger strikes it usually begs to be satiated with some sort of grilled meat. So it was something of a surprise when I recognized the hunger, but discovered that it was specifically for a super vegetarian burrito. It has been years since I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had a veggie burrito. Of course, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not talking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,59],"tags":[61,63,66,64,62,68,67,65],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civic-centertenderloin","category-polk-gulch","category-tendernob","tag-banh-mi","tag-dac-biet","tag-lees-sandwiches","tag-pate","tag-special-combo","tag-super-veg","tag-veggie-burrito","tag-vietnamese"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burritowings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burritowings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burritowings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burritowings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burritowings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.burritowings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/www.burritowings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burritowings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burritowings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burritowings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}