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Jun 20Liked by John Birmingham

The big shopping centre at Inala has great Vietnamese sandwiches from a collection of variably-dodgy-looking places at the back. One place has great egg sandwiches - the lady behind the counter pops open a little cupboard door below the counter, revealing a gas stove, and cooks you an omelette on the spot. They all take ApplePay! Extra ambience is provided by the Vietnamese men (always men) playing mahjong and Chinese chess in front of them. Turning up there very early, as I did once recently due to jet-lag, is an experience, as the stock for all the greengrocers gets carted in by an army of fellows with little trolleys. Definitely drive to Inala instead of flying to New York.

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Cazart! I took Jason and his daughter out to that shopping center while they were visiting. But we went at night. So they didn’t get the full effect of the Saigon Plaza out the back. I consider it my greatest failure in life.

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You mean the greatest failure of your life...so FAR.

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Jun 20Liked by John Birmingham

Great...I was all ready to go to bed and now I want a sandwich. You are not helping me JB!

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That’s what I’m here to do, Lou. Not help.

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Jun 20Liked by John Birmingham

The most awesome thing about sandwiches is that they taste GREAT!, and are so quick and easy to make! The bad thing about sandwiches is that they’re rather high in calories and make it VERY hard to maintain a slimmish figure, if you are over fifty.

Oh, the torment!!

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I feel this so hard.

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Jun 20Liked by John Birmingham

dammit, now I am going to go and get a sandwich...regrettably in New York it appears.

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a lot of these look like they're designed to projectile straight onto what you are currently wearing after the first bite.

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Most of them do look unnecessarily fragile. I prefer sandwiches with a bit less stuff on them and a bit more structural soundness. Properly cut hunks of sourdough on each side would be a good start, not these flimsy "brioche buns". Still, horses for courses. It's good that other places still do things differently.

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Where's the Reuben?

In Sydney, at The Olive, we used to order a number 2. Wasn't shite though.

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Aren't we all, one way or another, asking where our Reuben is?

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Man I’m hungry now.

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Thank you for making me drool. Now I must construct a sanga and devour it.

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Love that they gave the Hot Ham n cheese a shoutout. It's a Milwaukee classic on the weekends! My grandparents tradition was Hot Ham and Cheese sangas and sweetrolls (donuts) on the weekends.

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I fucking love sandwiches.

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