Trang Bakery and Cafe — Restaurant in Melbourne

I’ve been a long time customer of Trang, and I love their food. But today I had a horrible experience after a misunderstanding about dietary requirements.

My partner’s a coeliac and often eats at Trang, but steers clear of soy sauce, which contains gluten. After I ordered a gluten free bún, one of the ladies proceeded to drench the entire bowl in soy sauce. I apologised and politely explained my partner’s allergic to gluten and can’t eat it.

She refused to remake it because “everything contains soy sauce”, which is not true. When I started asking about specific dishes she looked past me and yelled “NEXT!”, and that was that. We clearly weren’t getting served.

I’m truly baffled as to why they did this. We are regulars and were nothing but extremely polite...

SO yum! First bahn mi (Vietnamese sandwich) place I've been to that uses legit, identifiable meat (not your typical sandwich meat). Out in the display case you can see the trays of BBQ pork, crispy pork and chicken which they cut up in front of you when they assemble your sandwich.

I got the Crispy Pork Roll and BBQ Pork Roll to share and the Crispy Pork was the clear winner. The veggies were nice and fresh (could be a bit more pickled) and there was some kind of sauce they put that just brought it all together. My mouth is watering just thinking about it again.

There are vegan options here so plant based friends won't be missing out.

Most people took their food to go but there are a couple tables out front to enjoy your food...

Second time here. The banh mi was good last time. Sadly, our lemongrass tofu banh mi this time is more like a ‘pickled carrot’ banh mi. The tofus are well marinated but it was thinly sliced with just 4-5 pieces in total.

The tofu banh mi is so much lighter than the special banh mi. I just can’t help but feel a bit scammed considering I paid $11 for this half empty banh mi. This would be sold for $7 as a salad banh mi in Springvale or Footscray.

Unfortunately the bread is chewy. What makes a good banh mi? Fresh and crispy nice bread. We get it. It’s Collingwood not Springvale but isn’t this a bit unfair for people who pay the same price and order their...