Bánh mì truck...

It wasn't so good--permissible compared to some places in NY. It was super slow. A little disorganized. The bánh mì wasn't really an issue as opposed to the summation of slights in regards to other offerings and pure laziness in effort here.

The tapioca in the bubble tea was INSULTING--it was like little balls of super old red bean paste that's dessicated and covered with a slimy boba casing. Teeny little truck on Pearl St & Hanover.

Sammiches--barely any fillings which is APPALLING for 6 bucks. At least Baoguette and An Choi charge for sammiches that actually has more than ONE THIN LAYER OF MEATS. The "do"/vietnamese bologna fish cake type of processed pork meat-ness was WEIRD. I'd consider eating this if I worked on this far downtown and I was hot mess in withdrawal of sammiches...or snowed in. This is the #1 (special combo).

The tuna was Bumble Bee Tuna (canned of course), the eel was the frozen packaged stuff u can get from JasMart or whatever. The other meats looked legit but again, thin single layer and not much else. Really is just...passable--granted I"ve had more offensive sammiches but...WHATEVER.

Julia got the grilled chicken. Jay got the eel sammich.

The only gripe I have with this place--whereas I majorly ripped into Bep is that Bep lacked flavor and panache (and in many regards "authenticity"), this place has the seeds of 'authentic' flavor but was just so damn slow and poorly executed in everything else and lazy.

If you want to even separate it further--my problem with Bep was that it just...didn't know any better. Something that can def be improved upon. This place, however, knows at least SOMEWHAT better but is completel haphazard--not that it knows so much better and wants to screw you over for a dollar, but that it seems indifferent--as if to just cover the bare minimum b/c it can't do any more and doesn't want to, but will just sweep over the flaws a little and call ti a day.

And, as always, this remains fairly popular and had good foot traffic when I was there (on the way to Fulton Stall Markets--entry belooowww!). Baffling really--but I guess until there's some other