Tag Archives: banh cuon

Homemade Banh Cuon

After Tung Hing and lazing about at the beach, we came back to Victor’s house to kill some time before dodgeball and found that his mom was making banh cuon! Sweet, I’ve never had homemade banh cuon before so it was nice to see it being made.  His mom went and bought a 5lb bag read more »

Truong Thanh

So after finishing our banh cuon at Thahn Xuan, I drove a couple blocks West along Kingsway to Truong Thanh (Foodosophy post here), where V’s mom regularly gets it from. Look, banh cuon is proudly advertised on their sandwich board, and underneath, xoi, is what I later found out was sticky rice.

Thahn Xuan Cafe

In Vancouver, it’s ridiculously easy to find Pho, especially along the Kingsway stretch from Nanaimo to Fraser. It is however a challenge to find a Vietnamese restaurant that isn’t focused on Pho, which has bullied other types of delicious food from Vietnam into submission here. Sure there is also bun and banh mi, but one read more »

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