{"id":22223,"date":"2008-05-21T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/05\/21\/food-discovery-vietnamese-sandwiches-aka-bnh-m\/"},"modified":"2008-05-21T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T10:00:01","slug":"food-discovery-vietnamese-sandwiches-aka-bnh-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080521-01\/?p=22223","title":{"rendered":"Food discovery: Vietnamese sandwiches, aka b&#225;nh m&#236;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some friends came down to visit from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouver.ca\/\"> Vancouver<\/a> to take advantage of the favorable exchange rate, and when the topic of lunch arose, one of them suggested Vietnamese sandwiches.\n &#8220;What are Vietnamese sandwiches?&#8221; I asked.\n &#8220;Okay, that settles it. We&#8217;re having Vietnamese sandwiches for lunch,&#8221; was the response.\n We went to the generically-named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwsource.com\/ae\/scr\/nws_rev.cfm?id=436\"> Seattle Deli<\/a> and ordered our sandwiches. (I had the chicken.)\n For less than three dollars I was rewarded with a wonderful sandwich. Crisp French bread around a collection of vegetables, some spicy, some pickled, some fresh, but all crispy, contrasting with the softness of the promised meat.<\/p>\n<p> It&#8217;s a fantastic dining experience. Too bad there are no Vietnamese sandwich shops near work. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some friends came down to visit from Vancouver to take advantage of the favorable exchange rate, and when the topic of lunch arose, one of them suggested Vietnamese sandwiches. &#8220;What are Vietnamese sandwiches?&#8221; I asked. &#8220;Okay, that settles it. We&#8217;re having Vietnamese sandwiches for lunch,&#8221; was the response. We went to the generically-named Seattle Deli [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-22223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Some friends came down to visit from Vancouver to take advantage of the favorable exchange rate, and when the topic of lunch arose, one of them suggested Vietnamese sandwiches. &#8220;What are Vietnamese sandwiches?&#8221; I asked. &#8220;Okay, that settles it. We&#8217;re having Vietnamese sandwiches for lunch,&#8221; was the response. We went to the generically-named Seattle Deli [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}