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Pork Banh Mi at Phuoc Thanh · Melbourne
Footscray's banh mi is Melbourne's other Vietnamese sandwich: a baguette stuffed with pate, sliced cold roast pork, pickled daikon and carrot, cucumber, coriander and chilli, eaten on the kerb outside Phuoc Thanh.
Banh mi arrived in Melbourne with the post-1975 Vietnamese refugee wave and rooted in the western suburbs around Footscray and Richmond. Phuoc Thanh on Hopkins Street in Footscray is the city's longest-running banh mi specialist, operating from the late 1980s as a counter-service bakery turning out the sandwich at A$7 a piece. The Melbourne format is distinctly Southern Vietnamese: a soft-rice-flour Vietnamese-style baguette, slightly shorter and crispier than a French loaf, packed with cold cuts (gio cha pork roll, sliced char siu, pate), pickled carrot-daikon do chua, cucumber spears, coriander and chilli sauce. Lines run down Hopkins Street at peak Saturday lunch.
Where to eat in Melbourne:
- Phuoc Thanh
- Footscray Market
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