Google Doodle Dishes Up Savory Vietnamese Banh Mi

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Google shows some of the savory ingredients that go into building a Banh Mi.

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Tuesday's Google Doodle celebrates banh mi, the popular Vietnamese street food sandwich that's a melting pot of cultures and savory ingredients. Banh mi literally means "bread" and is based on a type of baguette that was introduced to Vietnam in the mid-19th century when Vietnam was part of French Indochina.
Banh mi likely originated on the streets of Saigon in the 1950s, and its global popularity has grown since the end of the Vietnam War, when Vietnamese refugees took the sandwich to countries such as the US, Canada and Australia. Google celebrates banh mi on the ninth anniversary of it being admitted into the Oxford English Dictionary.

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Google's animated Doodle shows us the making of a typical banh mi.  It begins with a thin-crusted baguette being split lengthwise and dressed with condiments such as spicy chili sauce, Maggi seasoning sauce and mayonnaise. It's then filled with a wide variety of savory ingredients, such as meats and tour sapa từ hà nội vegetables from native Vietnamese cuisine, as well as cucumber slices, tour sapa cilantro and pickled carrots.

During the past couple of decades, the savory sandwich has spread to markets and restaurants around the world.