Comments on: Bánh Mì Xiu Mai

By: brad

brad — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:55:38 +0000

We have them in the Pho shops in Mississippi as well and they are awesome. Also love the Banh Mi Bi, which I think is just BBQ pork and pate..

By: peter

peter — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 02:22:20 +0000

Does anyone know of any in the Melbourne cbd around flinders?

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 04:59:21 +0000

Andrew is right about Nhu Lan, who also exist in Victoria St in Richmond.

Being clean and friendly gives this Vietnamese bakery an advantage already, but when you taste their fresh rolls you’ll be won over. I particularly love the bbq pork and salad rolls, which they will make to your liking but I recommend asking for pate and chili. I also love their little pork puff pastries.

By: Thi Nguyen

Thi Nguyen — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:15:39 +0000

Oh, definitely I have heard of banh mi xiu mai! Actually I ate it when I was still in Saigon. I was about 10 or 12 then. You can say it’s similar to meatball sandwich but the taste as I can recall is nothing like it. The tomatoes sauce was not as thick and have a sweet and sour taste to it. It was delicious!

By: mycookinghut

mycookinghut — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:31:24 +0000

Banh Mi…oh banh mi. I love it and tried my first Banh Mi in NYC. :)

By: Kelly Mxwell

Kelly Mxwell — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:04:19 +0000

By: Kimbers

Kimbers — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:19:31 +0000

$3?! That’s a bit rich. Here in Adelaide, you can get them for the bargain price of $2.50 in the food court at 4.30, after they’ve been sitting there all day! They also have those cold prawn rolls for $2.50…after they’ve been sitting there all day….yeah I’ll pass :)

Great blog you’ve got here!

By: Awasu » The price of virility

Awasu » The price of virility — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:53:46 +0000

[...] I love bread but good bread is really hard to find in Asia, except in Indochina where it’s fantastic (score one for the French). You can buy wonderfully fresh and crunchy baguettes from the street vendors, packed with salad and a pate made from something that I really didn’t want to ask about The Vietnamese call them Bánh Mì Xiu Mai and Phil Lees talks a bit about them here. [...]

By: Phil Lees

Phil Lees — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:52:52 +0000

I pronounce it like “shoe my”, which is probably horribly wrong. Just because I know the food words in Vietnamese doesn’t mean I don’t mangle the spoken language.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 14 May 2008 05:33:25 +0000

Great post. I never knew what to call these meatball rolls! (Still can’t pronounce it). I usually just point to order :) They sure are good from this shop though…they also sell some good homemade chilli oil too (roasted or raw)…you will see on the counter in unlabelled jars.

Another Vietnamese bakery worth trying in Footscray is “Nhu Lan Bakery” in Hopkins St. I have found them to be the busiest and probably the best. Although their xiu mai may not be as good.