Banh Mi King — Restaurant in San Francisco

Had the five spice chicken bowl as well as the traditional Banh mi.

The chicken bowl was perfectly fine. The chicken was cooked and tasty and all the other ingredients were good. Usually when I have this dish, once you add the fish sauce and mix everything it creates a spectacular mix of flavors. Weirdly that didn’t happen today. Not to say that it was bad per se but it was just okay.

The traditional banh mi was FIRE. Reallllly good. The cold cuts and pate were on point. SOLID banh mi. Would come here all the time but the price of one banh mi here is closer to what 2 would cost out in the suburbs. Guess that’s the cost of operating in the city in a prime location. Still worth it though in my opinion.

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While the food was fresh, the sandwiches and spring rolls are made right in front of you, and the Vietnamese coffee was delicious, the price was very expensive ($11.25) for a standard banh mi sandwich with no sides. Three drinks, a few sandwiches and rolls to go cost us close to $100. Beware of the peanut sauce served with the spring rolls, it is served extremely thin and watered down like brown water and therefore lacks taste. Are they trying to cut costs by watering down their sauces? Even the fish sauce was watery. The lady taking our order didn’t speak a word of English so we were using Google translate to communicate and clarify our order. Finally someone else came to help. Next time we’ll stick with og places like Saigon...

It was a good banh mi but the bread could have been a little softer. This is probably because I got mine at the end of the day.

The portion was good. I got it to go. Would I go back? No. Tell you why.

Chicken banh mi was $11.75 but came out to be $14.23! This didn’t include a tip. That’s nut. I understand sales tax and maybe even the 4% health mandate surcharge but that should have been $1.50 extra tops but almost a dollar on top of that?

Go to Freshroll Vietnamese or Viet Duong on Bush St. Freshroll charges $9.75 for their banh mi and it’s about the same size and quality as Banh Mi King.

I had always wanted to try Banh Mi King but the...