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Not Your Typical Foot-Long

Good Vietnamese sandwiches, or Bánh Mì, have always demanded a bit of a journey from us. There's Dong Phuong Oriental Bakery off Chef Manteur Highway in New Orleans East, about a twenty-five minute drive--yes this is a long drive for someone living in New Orleans where one could bike across the city in less than an hour--from our house in the Irish Channel when all was said and done. It also sits in the middle of an area that was uprooted and drowned by Hurricane Katrina; and it still hasn't bounced back, except for a few enclaves like those rebuilt by the resilient Vietnamese. We tended to stop in on our way to the beach at Mississippi. On the other side of the country, there's the Orange County chain of cafes/bakeries called Lee's Sandwiches, which, for those of us living in the Inland Empire of southern California, was a bit of a schlep, to say the least, in notorious Orange County gridlock. And now there's the bakery at Vinh Phat Supermarket in Sacramento'...