Vietnamese sandwich

[abcdefz]

...so I was hungry and figured I'd grab something at this little corner place: a Vietnamese sandwich shop.

Shredded chicken sandwich for $2? What the hell? Yeah, I'll have that.

This thing was, like, 70% bread. One of those big sub sandwich sort of breads. I opened it up -- lots and lots of greens, and this shredded chicken sort of pasted to the bread on both inside halves. Looked more like really white tuna.

Anyway. Bit into it.

HOT. Hot as in spicy as hell. Oh my word. Mouth is burning, and the greens and spiciness are kind of making my stomach turn, and I'm pounding the Diet Pepsi trying to put out the flames and tell my tummy it's okay, it's okay.

So then I was picking apart the sandwich, trying to see what parts of it I could eat. The bread was coated with whatever the spicy was, but I could pull some of the shredded chicken off.

My lips are still burning with whatever the oil was. My appetite's gone, but not because I filled up, but because now I'm kinda nauseated.

Ick. Remind me not to order that again. I should've gone with the satay chicken kebob thingies.

[ericlee]

note to a-z: asians aren't known for sammiches. That's a trait that they've learned from westerners and they can't perfect it.

I can probably bet that Vietnam doesn't even sell sammiches.

[abcdefz]

Yeah -- I figured it was an Americanified concoction with a dash of French (the baguette plus paté).

Apparently, these shops are a spreading fad.

I found information (including a Wikipedia entry); I think the hottness was this sort of horseradish paste. Sort of.

[ericlee]

sounds like wasabi but that's japanese.

[abcdefz]

Wasabi, I can handle, no problem.

This radish is called "daikon."

[yeahwho]

If you askin' me it sounds as if they sprayed gasket remover on the bread and threw in some shredded dud fireworks. A bit of the backyard for garnish.

It's called the Jane Fonda up here in Seattle. Delicious.

[Dorothy Wood]

yeah, I don't like those. some people love them though. a couple of my friends and I went to a place specifically to get them...but they ran out of the bread, so only two of us got them. I got a wrap thing. it was pretty boring and kinda gross. We did however get fried green beans and wasabi sauce, which were delicious.

[synch]

Wasabi, I can handle, no problem.

This radish is called "daikon."
... which translates to "make round eyed white man cry" radish.

[Documad]

We have lots of great Vietnamese places and you're insane to eat a sandwich from one of them. They do just about everything else on their menus really well. Then again, I couldn't get a kabob there either. You should get Vietnamese food at a Vietnamese restaurant or go someplace else. This week, I had noodle salad with fish sauce and that lovely coffee with condensed milk. Yum. :)

A friend at work brought me one of those sandwiches when I couldn't get away for lunch -- on the spur of the moment without asking me. I threw it in the garbage.