Pakse Cafe Vietnamese Restaurant Greensboro NC
Posted: August 19th, 2009, 5:28 pm
So Rhys from Swan Press rings me up and says he has a huge project for me. Rhys is a childrens book author, respected comic strip artists, and has now begun a project so massive, I'm humbled to be apart of it.
Anywho, Rhys wanted to meet up at the Apple Store over at Friendly where hundreds of hunch backed Greensborians pour into the silver facade of Appletopia and buy the latest yuppie appliance to attach their life to. We eventually found our way over to the Bicentennial Gardens where he had brought lunch. What's for lunch?
A (I hope I write this right) Banh Mi from Pakse Cafe. Supposedly it's Vietnamese. Looked like a sub to me. I don't believe I had ever had Vietnamese before, so I figured what the hell.... and what do you know... it's pretty darn good. He brought both chicken and pork, and a nice history lesson about an invasion into Vietnam and thus that's why you see "French" techniques in Vietnamese cooking such as butters and pates.
Rhys goes on to explain that he only takes only the good people he knows to Pakse Cafe, so I feel extra special to get to taste it. It's really not something I'd ever probably have tried on my own, but apparently this little hole in the wall restaurant has one heck of a word by mouth reputation not only in Greensboro but outside of the city too.
So what is a Banh Mi? Well from what I could tell (and more experienced food connoisseurs are free to jump in)... it's a bread roll, with meat, covered in butter and pate, stuffed with carrots, cucumbers and garnished with cilantro. (Did I miss anything?) If this sounds like your thing, then check this place out... because it's really good.
- Pakse Cafe
(336) 574-4404
827 W Florida St
Greensboro, NC 27406