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| - This place is PACKED for lunch on weekdays with a line that goes from counter to door, and there's a good reason why: this place has upped the ante on the lowly Vietnamese sub with delicious, novel and well-executed hot fix-ins, fresh toppings and amazing sides for Chinatown-inspired prices. Plus they have a drink fridge with vanilla coke, diet lime coke, vanilla rootbeer and other uncommon sodas.
I went with 3 colleagues and shared a braised beef cheek, sweet cooked onion and hot pepper bahn mi. super flavourful, great colours and textures, melt in your mouth and nicely filling. The pickled carrots and turnip were fresh, delicious. The bun could have been crisper on the outside (hence the 4).
Also shared the sweet potato fries, and the kim chi fries. AMAZING. especially the kim chi fries, which were inventive, really nicely cut so the fries were crispy, and topped with a generous topping of pulled pork, vietnamese sub sauce (mayo?), some mild kim chi, green onion and WOWZA.
I will definitely go back for more and try the options - pork belly, squid, pulled pork, chicken, and lots more permutations. Next time though, I'll get there earlier to beat the rush.
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