{"id":4171,"date":"2010-09-13T10:09:55","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T17:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=4171"},"modified":"2010-09-13T10:09:55","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T17:09:55","slug":"portland-or-julies-vietnamese-food-cart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=4171","title":{"rendered":"Portland, OR &#8211; Julie&#8217;s Vietnamese (Food Cart)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4173\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4173\" style=\"width: 195px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/nam2png.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4173\" title=\"Julie's Vietnamese Portland\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/nam2png-195x300.png\" alt=\"Julie's Vietnamese Portland\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julie&#39;s Vietnamese Portland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>In the middle of the 5th\/Oak\/Stark pod, is a nondescript trailer which I wouldn&#8217;t have known the name of, save for the sign board on the sidewalk.   For me, this place would be an odd choice for my noontime repast, but Mrs. BDB and I had out of town guests, and we were trying desperately to all order from one stand, to facilitate payment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I went with a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bahn_mi\">Bahn Mi<\/a>.  For those of you not familiar with this, it&#8217;s basically the Vietnamese version of a sub\/hoagie\/grinder\/poboy, featuring pickled vegetables, a couple (at least) kinds of pork, on a French baguette.  The French influence in the Vietnamese culture, came from their 100 year adventure in Vietnam, (prior to our little adventure).   A lot of the French culture, language, cuisine, stayed behind, and is now filtering its way through the US, thanks to the large number of emigres.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Banh Mi is getting a lot of publicity lately, in particular, due to the success some purveyors from Los Angeles, the Nom Nom truck, are having on the &#8220;Great American Food Truck Race&#8221; on one of the food networks.   <a href=\"http:\/\/nomnomtruck.com\/about\/\">Check them out, if you are in L.A<\/a>, because the servers are certainly as delicious as the sandwiches! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Julie&#8217;s banh mi didn&#8217;t precisely follow the traditional recipe, she had substituted some vegetables and only had a couple kinds of pork, but the sandwich was fresh, the bread great, and it packed a wallop from some large jalapeno slices (which normally I would eschew).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A bargain on the block at five bucks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4174\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4174\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/nam5png.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4174\" title=\"Julie's Vietnamese Food Cart\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/nam5png.png\" alt=\"Julie's Vietnamese Food Cart\" width=\"480\" height=\"526\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julie&#39;s Vietnamese Food CartPortland Banh Mi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4175\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4175\" style=\"width: 551px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/nam4png.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4175\" title=\"Portland Banh Mi\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/nam4png.png\" alt=\"Portland Banh Mi\" width=\"551\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4175\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portland Banh Mi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the middle of the 5th\/Oak\/Stark pod, is a nondescript trailer which I wouldn&#8217;t have known the name of, save for the sign board on the sidewalk. For me, this place would be an odd choice for my noontime repast, but Mrs. BDB and I had out of town guests, and we were trying desperately&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=4171\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Portland, OR &#8211; Julie&#8217;s Vietnamese (Food Cart)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,16,35],"tags":[564,565,2790,2918],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}