Banh mi is the Vietnamese baguette roll filled with pate and mayonnaise, pickled carrot, cucumber, coriander and chilli; in Australia it is commonly sold in Asian bakeries.
The baguette came to Vietnam with the French in the mid 19th century, and in the 1950s a distinctly Vietnamese sandwich developed in Saigon; after the Vietnam War, overseas Vietnamese made it popular in Australia, where it is commonly sold in Asian bakeries. Vietnamese refugees began to settle in Darra in 1975, and at the 2016 census Inala had the largest Vietnamese Australian community of any suburb in Queensland. West End Vietnamese Foods fills its rolls with house pate and mayonnaise, cucumber, pickled carrot, coriander, onion and chilli.
