VintageGin posted...
Disagree with the idea that more expensive banh mis are necessarily worse, and this is kinda my point-- other sandwiches are allowed to experiment with more expensive ingredients (or alternatively claim cost of labor, but that's another thing), but if you do something similar with a banh mi then people object.
i think those objections would fade more rapidly once it becomes more american-ized.
like nobody bats an eye to Italian sandwiches having a range of like $3 to $30 but it's understood that the latter had better be chonky as all hell and put you into a coma a third of the way in whereas the former, if barely more than bread, is a good value.
Vietnamese food is in a weird category of 'there' but not
there.
people will play with Japanese plenty, whether it's sushi or ramen/udon. Chinese food isn't really "Chinese" half the time but distinctly Chinese-American. Indian food has non-spicy without coconut variants (some rebel to this admittedly) and even Thai food has variety. Filipino fully embraced the Americanism before it even left the mainland. Viet food ended up as one of the most conservative ones but as more places become more Viet-American those dishes will change too. technically already has with coffees and drinks.