NYC Tastes

I was so excited when I heard the owners of Bao Noodles were opening up a Banh Mi place only one block away. I walked by what seemed like a million times to find them still hammering away, not quite open for days! Then the holidays came along and I kind of forgot about Baoguette until Tuesday when Mr. T and I were heading home and once again faced with the dinner dilemma. Then we remembered Baoguette. We ran inside the little store and were very pleased to see quite a larger array of offerings than we had expected. There was a green papaya salad, shrimp summer rolls, a catfish sandwich and a couple different kinds of Bahn Mi. Now they had the traditional with Pork, but I decided to try something different and ordered the BBQ Chicken Bahn Mi. This was a pretty decent sized sandwich for $5.00! Chicken, Cucumber, pickled daikon (I ended taking out the Cilantro-ewww!) and shredded carrots get stuffed inside a crunchy roll and topped with a generous amount of garlic aoli and sriracha hot sa...