Vietnamese Banh Mi Tops the World's 100 Best Sandwiches

With 4.6/5 points, Vietnamese banh mi ranked first in the list of 100 best sandwiches in the world in 2024 ("Top100 sandwiches in the world") voted by the world-famous culinary website TasteAtlas on March 15.

Foreign tourists line up to buy bread at a small shop on Ly Quoc Su Street, Hanoi. (Photo: T.LINH)

According to TasteAtlas, Banh mi (pronounced 'bun mee') is a very popular Vietnamese dish with the same main ingredient, baguette, imported from the French.

However, with the ingenuity of the Vietnamese, Vietnamese bread becomes an attractive dish when combining meat with fresh vegetables such as coriander, chili and pickles, reflecting the Vietnamese taste for herbs and light flavors.

TasteAtlas's ranking of the world's 100 best sandwiches.

Nowadays, the fillings of sandwiches are becoming more and more diverse and rich. It can be chicken, pork, beef, seafood, cold cuts or pate, sausage. But it is extremely important not to put too much filling in the sandwich.

TasteAtlas assessed that, with the appeal of delicious fillings, Vietnamese sandwiches are especially popular with foreign tourists. Thanks to that, Vietnamese sandwiches have long crossed the country's borders and currently there are still many more Vietnamese sandwich shops opening around the world.

With the appeal of delicious fillings, Vietnamese bread is especially popular with foreign tourists. Thanks to that, Vietnamese bread has long crossed the country's borders and there are still many more Vietnamese bread shops opening around the world.
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Vietnamese sandwiches are very diverse, the most popular is meat sandwiches, in addition there are special sandwiches, meatball sandwiches, fish cake sandwiches, roast pork sandwiches, grilled chicken sandwiches, ham sandwiches, fried egg sandwiches...

In the comments section, TasteAtlas also suggests some famous banh mi shops in Ho Chi Minh City, Hoi An, Hanoi, and even in the US and Australia.

Roasted Pork Banh Mi is featured on TasteAtlas.

In the list of the 100 best sandwiches in the world 2024 by TasteAtlas, there are also many sandwiches with many types of fillings such as: Meat sandwich (ranked 9th), Roast pork sandwich (ranked 29th).

According to TasteAtlas, meatloaf is a very popular dish in Vietnam. Meatloaf is a sandwich made from various types of Vietnamese cold cuts such as grilled pork, pork roll, sausage, etc., along with cucumber, mayonnaise, pickled carrots and radishes, and stuffed liver pate. In addition, meatloaf is often supplemented with ingredients such as coriander, black pepper, and sliced chili.

Meat sandwiches are typically eaten for breakfast and lunch, but can be eaten at any meal of the day as there are many banh mi carts on the streets, suggests TasteAtlas.

Coming in at number 29 is the roasted pork sandwich. This is a variation of the traditional Vietnamese sandwich, made with the main ingredient being grilled pork belly.

Meat sandwiches are usually eaten for breakfast and lunch but can also be eaten at any meal of the day as there are many sandwich carts on the streets.
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For many consecutive years, culinary experts and readers of TasteAtlas have consistently voted Vietnamese sandwiches high in world culinary rankings. In 2023, in the list of the world's 100 most delicious dishes, TasteAtlas ranked Vietnamese sandwiches at number 14.

In September 2022, with a score of 4.8/5, Vietnamese banh mi was voted 4th in the list of 50 best street foods in the world by culinary experts and readers of TasteAtlas.

In early 2023, described as “Crispy, fresh, rich and incredibly delicious”, CNN voted Vietnamese banh mi as one of the 24 best sandwiches in the world.

Previously, CNN also voted Vietnamese bread in the list of 50 street foods you must try when coming to Asia.

In 2021, French newspaper Le Monde also praised Vietnamese sandwiches and commented that they are a formidable "rival" of American burgers.

In March 2020, Google honored banh mi on the homepage of this search engine in more than 10 countries.

The word "Banh mi" has also been included in many world-famous dictionaries such as Oxford, Cambridge, Merriam-Webster... Oxford Learners' Dictionaries defines Banh mi as "A Vietnamese-style baguette filled with cold cuts, pate and vegetables".

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