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| - This place can get pretty nuts, or maybe that's Toronto's Chinatown in general. I might have had some gripes with the language barrier but I was lucky enough to have my Vietnamese girlfriend/interpreter by my side, so that made the whole process a lot smoother.
Banh Mi will run you for about $2-$3 depending on the kind you get. I made out with 9 sandwiches to take back with me across the border: 4 traditional, 3 sausage, and 2 BBQ pork, all for $20. I really wanted to try the meatball but they were out of stock, which is a common "problem" here (when I tried the night before, they were about 10 sandwiches away from being cleaned out completely). Being that high in demand is a good kind of problem, of course.
The sandwiches are delicious. Not the best banh mi I've ever had, but for the quantity, quality, and price, you can't beat it. Now I know why I see hordes are constantly coming out of the shop with huge bags in each hand.
They offer a ton of other goodies as well. Prepackaged (but fresh) meals, desserts, baked goods, etc. I tried the banh bao (steamed pork bun), and I might have to stock up on those next time as well since I have yet to find any like it in Cleveland.
Nguyen Huong is legit.
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