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| - I hate to give my peeps 2 stars, but this cafe just didn't deliver.
Enter your typical strip mall, into a very small store with a few tables along the walls and a counter. Loud Vietnamese patrons sat around "playing cards" (it's a euphemism), smoking and talking loudly. You know you're in a relatively growing, but new Vietnamese neighborhood when there are a lot of "card houses" in the area. The kind of place you walk into and they're a little surprised you want to order food.
I don't think they speak much English and looked at me and my Caucasian husband as if we might be lost. FYI, we tried the Banh Mi Cafe up the road, but they don't serve banh mi anymore and this was an even more awkward entrance than where we ended up - strange goings ons that I don't want to know about.
We ordered the white ham sandwich and an iced coffee to go. The coffee was good (as it is at most, ahem, card houses), but skimpy. It filled only half my cup.
As for the sandwiches, they use traditional Vietnamese bread, not the long french Vietnamese baguettes, which is fine, except mine was pretty stale and chewy, as only a stale Vietnamese baguette can be. The meat, veggies, peppers, cilantro etc. were all pretty good. If only they baked their bread fresh, in house.
Your best bet is Le's Sandwiches. It's a little out of the way for me, but worth the drive.
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