Andrea Nguyen, chef and author of Vietnamese Food Any Day, makes a char siu chicken banh mi in the MUNCHIES Test Kitchen. Andrea marinates and grills chicken thighs to crispy, caramelized perfection, makes quick pickles with daikon radishes and carrots, and slices up jalapeños and herbs to make the ultimate banh mi, all while explaining the origins of this now-classic Vietnamese sandwich.

Check out the recipe here: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gy4qq7/char-siu-chicken-banh-mi-recipe

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44 Comments

  1. It's Viet-Naam, not Viet-Nalm. No vietnamese person says "Nalm". She should know.
    Also, where is the pate? And Italian style Basil? WTF.

  2. "Bánh mì nóng đây" – "Hot bread here"

    "Bánh mì đặc ruột đây" – "Thick bread here"

    "Bánh mì nóng đây" – "Hot bread here"

    "Bánh mì đặc ruột đây" – "Thick bread here"

    "Bánh mì nóng đây" – "Hot bread here"

    "Bánh mì nóng giòn đây" – "Crispy hot bread here"

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mGy0vyqXT9o

  3. Chicken thighs are the best piece of chicken for SOOOO much Vietnamese cooking! Your channel pulls at my cultural heartstrings! 🥹 I love cooking Vietnamese food. My mom taught me a lot about cooking when I was VERY young, and I love cooking “her way”. 🤭 We also celebrate our culture at Christmas time by eating Vietnamese food on Christmas Day, and naturally for the week after because we’ve cooked SO much food! 😂

    And that crunch at the end!!! Signs of a truly goooood bánh mi.

  4. I’ve seen a lot of comments about the mayo and liver pate.
    The mayo VNmese use has less oil and more egg yolks. 2 egg yolks, 1tsp sugar 1 tsp salt 1 tsp lemon juice 200ml veg oil, the final result will be transparent silky mayo.
    The liver pate is totally optional, not everyone likes it. My mom whenever she goes to banhmi store she always asks meat, veggie and that’s it.
    There are many variation of banhmi, there is no such thing as traditional one cuz banhmi is actually the bread’s name so whatever you wanna put inside the bread is optional.
    You can put ice cream in there as well.

  5. I am now using carrot and turnips for the pickled stuff. I am using a mandoline to cut them and it makes nice 1/8" strips. I was surprised to find the pickled turnip strips are actually somewhat peppery, a nice side benefit of turnips.

  6. Love the video. Do not understand the head-banging music. It does not make it better.

  7. For the record, those pickled daikon and carrots WILL keep for weeks. Long after you made this awesome bahn mi. But they are as Andrea says, "Funky." You will learn this when your partner yells across a big house, "What's that smell?" And you are standing in the fridge door eating fork fulls of those pickles. Pair them with ramen, pair them with potstickers, pair them with a fork standing and eating out of the fridge.

  8. Love this, she's awesome. I made a vegan version of this recipe (tofu instead of chicken, vegan mayo) and loved it. The radish and carrot pickle in particular turned out great.

  9. nah fam this ain't Bánh Mì. wheres the pate woman. 😅 i give this a 2/10 for an actually banh mi

  10. Please don't tell me this woman has a husband or a brother called Andrew NGuyen and it's a professor.

  11. Referencing Jack Pollock while giving me a history (and science!!) lesson about my favorite sandwich in the entire world?? Thank you, Chef Andrea!

  12. Since being introduced to Bun dac biet at Saigon Bowl in Denver, I’ve been in love with the cuisine. I became friends with “Kevin” (not even close to his Vietnamese name), who spent a day cooking for me and had spring rolls for days. Then a small Bahn Mi shop opened near my home in Aurora, CO. Now living in ABQ and exploring the Vietnamese food here. Great food with amazing flavors . My Navajo husband is picking some up on his way home from work thanks to running across this video!

  13. I've not seen an English mainstream YouTube channel show us how to make bánh mì thịt (cold cuts) from scratch. The bánh mì thịt is very hard and time consuming to make at home from scratch.

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