saigon baguette

why?

I remembered the first time I had a sample of this sandwich with Rach, we knew we would be back! I brought LR to try it, and he proclaims this is the best sandwich he has ever eaten his whole life! Haha... and it only about time I try my hand at making it. What if the shop closes down? Would we need to fly all the way to Vietnam for our sandwich fix?

success?

LR said it tasted almost like the real thing! I knew I would never be able to produce the real thing because I don't have those ham that they use. I substituted with marinated pork and I used very good Pate that I bought from Cold Storage. On a scale of 1 to 10 of being like the real thing, I would rate it a 7.5 :) I included the recipe, do try!!

Saigon Baguette Recipe

Ingredients

Ciabatta bread (I bought mine from Giant at a steal! $1.70 for 4 small ones)

Mayonnaise

Pate De foie (I bought 100g from Cold storage)

Corriander

White vinegar

Sugar

2 Carrots

1 Radish

2 Cucumbers

200g Lean Pork

1 Lemon grass

Cornflour

Fish sauce

Method(Start at least 3 days before eating)

1. Peel the carrots and radish.

2.Slice the carrots, cucumbers and radish into 3 inch by half inch rectangular shaped.

3.Place the vegetables into an airtight container.

4.Mix 2 cups of white vinegar with 1 cup of sugar, then dilute with 1 cup of water.

5.Pour the mixture into the container with the vegetables and preserve for at least 3 days.

6.The day before, marinate the pork.

7. Slice the pork thinly and marinate with 3 tsp of cornflour, pounded lemon grass, 3 tsp of fish sauce, 1 tbs of sugar and 1 tsp of sesame oil. Cover with a cling wrap and sit overnight in the refridgerator.

8. Fry the pork with some vegetable oil and set aside.

9. Toast the bread and slice into half.

10.Spread some pate, then mayo, put in the pork, pickled vegetables and corriander.

11.Drizzle some fish sauce over the sandwich and you are good to go!!

failure?

The real deal doesn't use pork, but 3 different kinds of ham. Maybe next time, I'll go get some salami and try. I know it isn't regular ham, because the pork taste is much stronger than the common ham we eat.

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