Hi, does anyone know where you can get Banh Tieu in NYC? I've googled and it seems like NYC just doesn't have any Vietnamese bakeries that sell this type of bread. It's my favorite and I literally dream of it since I've had in VA. But also making the hike to VA is a lot so I wanted to know if anyone has seen it around. Thanks a bunch!
by bowowow88
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[Banh on the Upper West Side has it](https://www.tastenote.app/menus/126fef42-7d6c-442f-b4d4-023990d7f01f). They have it with sticky rice, sweet cured sausage, pork floss, quail egg, patê, scallion oil.
You can ask if you can buy the banh tieu on its own.
There are a couple restaurants that make it as part of a dish, like stuffed with sticky rice or an egg. There aren’t places that make it like a Vietnamese deli on its own. I got so desperate I started making it myself, and it’s actually not that hard! I just googled and found an easy recipe
No need to go to VA by the way. Philly has everything and closish to the train station. Takes 1.5 hours on the train at most
You can buy them frozen at Tan Ting Hung (and probably Sunset Park/ Flushing/ Elmhurst, not sure). Factory made, but I know I’ve seen them there– last I saw they were in the very first freezer on left before the refrigerated section, not the first of the row of freezers following the refrigerated section. They also have a good selection of che/ banh la don type things made fresh. Sadly not banh bo nuong (but banh mi co ut a few blocks away does). They are closed Fridays and the snacks tend to be depleted by Thursday-ish.
NYC has zero proper Vietnamese delis and it makes me very sad. If you get them lmk how they compare–I’ve only had the real thing once iirc.