Quoc Bao Bakery Garland

Current holder of the title “The Best Banh Mi I’ve ever had”. This place is nuts good, and the pricing is ludicrous. We got 4 to try out, which comes to under $14. About the food — being a bakery, of course they have good bread, but *this* bread is PERFECT. They definitely make their own Mayo here — it’s yellow and about as thick as cool butter. Orders of magnitude better than the spread on any other Banh mi I’ve had, and they have phenomenal patè to go with it. We got a #3 (roast chicken), #4 (bbq / char siu), #5 (shredded pork) and #10 (roast pork). The #10 and #3 probably travelled the best, being relatively dry. The #4 and # 5 got fairly soggy before we could eat them, but they were still absolutely wonderful. It took us 40 minutes to get our sandwiches by the way — they were quite busy. We ordered, they told us the wait time, and then walked a few blocks to a HUGE Vietnamese grocery store and explored it while we waited. I mention it here because that store is difficult or impossible to find on Google maps and was a lovely way to pass the time. There is no seating in the place or anywhere within walking distance of it, so we did have to drive it somewhere. We tried to go back and tell them that their food had changed our lives, but they were too busy for us to do so. I hope we get to visit the Dallas area again so we can go back to this place, it was the highlight of this trip

This is one of those places where people come from all around to get it. Anytime I see banh mi on a menu I have to try it but for delicious authentic banh mi nothing compares to this place. Thursdays and Saturdays they run a buy 2 get 1 free special so for about $9 you can get a pretty decent lunch. We tried the #8 bbq pork and meatball, the #9 white ham, and #3 chicken. It was a toss up between the pork and the white ham for me... They were both different in their own way and both really good! My girlfriend and I downed all three of them like ravenous dogs.