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City Room — What we’re looking at on the Web today … A handy map to help you find those tasty Franco-Vietnamese Banh Mi sandwiches. It’s a recession special. [Diner's Journal] Sign up today and you could be ...

Searching for Banh Mi in Paris
Bitten — ... and handy map ) reminds me of my first trip to Paris. It was 1970, the United States was deeply involved in Vietnam, and those of us who were against the war and came here (I’m in Paris now) were eager to sample a bit of Vietnamese culture, by which I mean food. It was interesting, even exciting, but it was difficult to find anything beyond the basics — pho, mostly — or to get to the soul of it (not surprisingly). I don’t recall encountering a banh mi, not that I knew to look for it. Twenty years later, when I traveled to Vietnam, I ate them frequently, but by then they’d ...

Today in Asian-Sandwich Excess
Grub Street New York — In case you missed New York's bánh mì roundup followed by the Times' bánh mì map, Citysearch has another bánh mì map! Such is the Asian-sandwich craze that an owner of the late Province Chinese Canteen tells Midtown Lunch that he's opening a spinoff of the restaurant at 53rd Street between Second and Third, and it'll be called Mantao Chinese Sandwiches. Check the website for opening information. In the meantime, we can only encourage the owners to put Chinese bacon to ...