How many calories in a banh mi
A banh mi has about 540 kcal, with 25 g of protein.
Portion
To burn it off
Banh mi is a Vietnamese baguette, crisp outside and airy inside, filled with pork or chicken, pate, mayo, pickled carrot and daikon, cucumber, coriander and chilli.
One is about 540 kcal, with 25 g of protein, 60 g of carbs and 22 g of fat. The bread, the pate and the mayo are most of it.
It's a full lunch in one hand. In London and Manchester the street food stalls do proper ones.
Tips
- 1Ask for light mayo or skip the pate.
- 2Go for grilled chicken or tofu instead of pork belly.
- 3Ask for extra pickles and herbs, they bring flavour for almost nothing.
Where it comes from
The French brought the baguette to Vietnam in colonial times, and banh mi simply means wheat bread. The sandwich as we know it took shape in Saigon after 1954. The story goes that the small Banh Mi Hoa Ma made a shorter, cheaper loaf and, to serve the queues faster, put the cold cuts and vegetables inside the bread instead of on a plate. Vietnamese emigrants carried it around the world after the war.
Where does our food come from? · Source: Saigoneer, The Saga of the Banh Mi
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Questions
What's in a banh mi?
A Vietnamese baguette with meat or tofu, pate, mayo, pickled veg, cucumber, coriander and chilli.
Is a banh mi higher than a regular sandwich?
It's often similar to a filled baguette from a sandwich shop. The pate and mayo push it up.
How many calories in half a banh mi?
About 270 kcal.
How many calories in a banh mi without pate and mayo?
Around 360 kcal. A spoon of mayo is about 90 kcal and a layer of pate roughly the same.
How much does a fried egg add to a banh mi?
About 90 kcal, so a banh mi with an extra fried egg comes to roughly 630.
