My friends all know that I love a good banh mi (aka Vietnamese sandwich). When I lived on Atlantic Avenue I was particularly partial to Nicky’s at 311 Atlantic, though Hanco’s at 85 Bergen was always a close second.
Hanco’s Park Slope location was featured this week on hipster haven This American Life, which tells the story of the identical menus at Hanco’s and Henry’s, a banh mi shop just blocks away. The Brooklyn Paper reported last year on the similarities between the two sandwich shops, calling it a “war” in which “the collateral damage is delicious.”
This American Life’s newest episode is available for streaming here.
Flickr Photo by consumedithis
I’d love to see a banh mi street cart in the neighborhood, say, at Borough Hall, next to the gyro vendor.