Amazing scene in Vietnamese sandwich shop in Africa

UGANDA - What made Amy Fallon - writer of Escape Australia eager to learn was that when she visited the African country, she could still find Vietnamese sandwiches there.

Fallon's purpose in going to this country 11,000km from Australia was to travel and visit Fosca Anirwoth, her friend who works at a Vietnamese restaurant in the capital Kampala, Uganda.

Sharing with the writer of Escape Australia , Anirwoth said that this restaurant will open from 2023, with the main dish being banh mi. What made Fallon especially impressed when he first set foot here were the two advertising pictures outside.

Photo: Amy Fallon/Escape

One of the two characters appearing in the restaurant's advertising image is former Australian Prime Minister - Malcolm Turnbull.

Restaurant owner Nguyen Son Dong said the photo captured the moment Mr. Turnbull ate banh mi when he was still the Australian leader during his visit to Vietnam in 2017.

"I was particularly impressed with the image of a leader enjoying bread on the street. That's why I decided to find the photo and print it.

In Africa, they have injera, ugali, chapati... which are all popular dishes in countries like Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan and Uganda with corn and bread. In Vietnam, people also eat bread and I want to introduce that flavor here," Dong shared.

Next to the picture of the former Australian Prime Minister, the restaurant also displayed a picture of Miss H'Hen Niê surrounded by long loaves of bread.

Famous Vietnamese dishes are especially loved by Ugandans. Illustration photo: News Australia

At this Vietnamese restaurant, a full sandwich including chicken, avocado, pâté, coriander, cucumber, carrots, radishes, tomato sauce, chili served with salad and sauce costs 8,000 Ugandan shillings (more than 80,000 VND).

Ezra Tumwesigye, a local diner, shared that Vietnamese banh mi is "better than the chapati flatbread in Uganda" but harder to find.

Mr. Nguyen Son Dong came to Uganda in 2009 and is currently the owner of 3 different restaurants in Kampala with the hope of bringing Vietnamese cuisine closer to African friends.

Vietnamnet.vn

Source: https://vietnamnet.vn/canh-tuong-kinh-ngac-trong-hang-banh-mi-viet-o-chau-phi-2443464.html