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=Banh Mi: Colorful Saigon Sandwich=


There are many different types of Banh Mi sandwich, ranging from chunked BBQ grilled pork, sliced pork pate, shredded grilled chicken, to grilled and smoked fish, sardine, meatball, chinese-style sausage, and tripe.  
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Standard Banh Mi ingredients:
* pickled julienned carrot
* julienned pickling/english cucumber (not the american one)
* cilantro leaves and stalks
* super-thin jalepeno slices


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Meats:

* BBQ pork
* BBQ chicken
* sliced pork pate 
* sliced pork meatloaf
* BBQ beef
* Vegetable-based texturizers (tofu-tvp,wheatgluten,seitan,sueyu,suegai)
* Meatball
* sliced chinese/thai/vietnamese style sausage (waxy kind)
* sardine
* tripe
* smoked salmon
* grilled or fried white fish

Other ingredients:

* sliced turnip
* pickled julienned daikon radish
* handful of green onion
* sliced, patted dry tomatoes
* sprigs of mint
* sprigs of basil
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 shredded cabbage
* sprout mix
* lettuce

Sauces for sandwich:

* Tip: Use Japanese Mayonnaise (Cupie Mayo - squeeze bottle with a baby on front)

* (Mayso) Mayo and soy
* (Maysocha) Mayo, soy, sriracha chili sauce
* (Maycha) Mayo, sriracha
* (Hot Mom) Mayo, 'Lao Gan Ma' Sad, Old grandmother chinese hot sauce (also great w french fries)
* Any of the above with lime (or lemon) juice and sugar
* BBQ sauce and mayo


Pickling the vegetables:

sprinkle light salt over julienned vegetables, wait 5 min, rinse with cold water.  Mix equal parts of water, coconut vinegar (or white) with natural sugar (or white).  Bring to a boil, cool and pour over vegetables.  Store mixture using an appropriate container (glass, polycarbonate, hdpe 5+) in the refrigerator.

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Author: mchrisneglia AT yahoo DOT com, March 24, 2004

Author's Notes: please contribute!