TasteAtlas - a website known as the "world food map" - has just announced a list of the 50 best street food in the world. Vietnamese baguette, known locally as "Banh mi", ranked 7th.
According to the site, Bánh mì (pronounced 'bun mee') is a popular Vietnamese variety of sandwich that shares the same core ingredient of a baguette.
The baguette was brought over to Vietnam during the colonial period, and nowadays it is one of the few remaining legacies from the time.
In the beginning, most banh mi sandwiches consisted of bread, meat, and seasonings, with no added vegetables.
However, today, with many different variations, Vietnamese bread is also combined with bacon, butter, fresh mayonnaise, liver pate, cucumber, coriander, pickles, oyster sauce, garlic./.
