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(Tejal Rao)
Plated delivers the origin story of a restaurant dish as told by an establishment’s chefs and owners. Today's plate is from Baoguette, the Gramercy-area bánh mì destination owned by chef Michael Huynh and wife Thao Nguyen.
On the plate: The ‘Sloppy Bao’ sandwich. $7
The players: Thao Nguyen and Michael Huynh, proprietors.
Michael Huynh: "I love Sloppy Joes, but I think the Sloppy Bao has more kick to it. I used to make Sloppy Joes maybe 25 years ago, when I was still in high school, for an after-school snack. More recently, we’d make a version of this, the Sloppy Bao some nights for family meal at Bar Bao. The beef stew is a traditional recipe based on my wife's family recipe, made with shallots, garlic, lemongrass, red curry paste, basil, and fish sauce. It’s served on a French-style baguette with green mango julienne, pickled onion, cilantro leaves, and sliced jalapeno.
The bread is a par-bake product from Wenner; we bake it every 15 minutes. It’s really best available baguette for our sandwiches: even fresh bread from bakeries can sometimes be 10 hours old, stale, and not soft enough. We leave the spice level of our sandwiches up to the customer. Some customers freak out when they request something spicy and we give them spicy food. We give them a cold Vietnamese ice coffee, though, if we hear a cry for help."
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meat is murder
7 bucks? you can keep it. even more laughable than nickie's so called "vietnamese sandwiches"- even subway's at 8pm tastes better.
Now I am hungry for banh mi.
I love banh mi and will have to try this place soon.
Why would anyone pay twice as much for something that you can get in Chinatown? Hop on the 6 and get off at either Spring (there's that place on Broome, next to Sal's) or Canal (tons within a couple of blocks walking distance).
Or hit the one in the E. B'way mall..
Well, this looks like something different. Don't think you can get this exactly in any other Bahn Mi places. And that's the point. Besides, hoping on the train -- that an extra $2, unless you have an unlimited--and extra time.
So double the price for a few strips of mango?
This reminds me of that Vietnamese place on Grand and Lafayette -- Bun.
Expensive for what you get, when you can get better a few blocks away.
This sandwich is delicious, and totally different from the more traditional ones in cheaper spots around the city. I haven't tried the other sandwiches they serve though, because the sloppy is so tasty!
Well, I love Baoguette, You can't get this Sloppy Bao Version anywhere else and it's BEEF.. ( Chinatown do not served any beef sandwich) Plus i am not dump enough to spnd an hour and $4 buck for subway go to Chinatown to save a BUCK??? unless i am unemployment. You also can try there Original Baoguette or BBQ chicken only $5..
And also Nicky Sandwich only 6 inches, and Baoguette is 10 ".