The Baguette House is a small restaurant that is walking distance from Short n’ Sweet. The Baguette House is a Vietnamese cuisine restaurant that sells banh mi. Banh mi is the Vietnamese word, for the French word of baguette. Banh mi came into existence when the French colonised Vietnam, and mixing the ingredients of French baguettes and pate, with native Vietnamese ingredients such as cilantro and hot peppers.
A typical French baguette is a long, lean piece of bread. Banh mi is a sandwich made of a shorter kind of this bread, typically 8-10 inches, that is buttered, and is spread with pate, a paste that is extremely grounded meat. Then, cold cut slices of pork and Vietnamese sausage is placed in the sandwich. Cilantro, slices of cucumbers, pickled carrots, and peppers are added on top of the meats. This is an average banh mi, as there are many different types such as barbecued pork, fish, vegetarian, and chicken.
Banh Mi
The Baguette House is an excellent place to visit if you want to try a taste of Vietnamese foods, there you can taste thach, or Vietnamese jello, or sample some banh bao, Vietnamese steam buns. Another mixture between French and Vietnamese cuisine is a patty shell. Patty shells are croissants stuffed with Vietnamese ground pork and herbs. The Baguette House is a good and fun place to go to for lunch, after stopping by Short n’ Sweet to get your drinks, you can stop by and buy a sandwich, but beware, you might not understand what some of the staff are saying sometimes.
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aahh it looks so good, does the food taste authentic?
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