Message Mai, and she'll bike you over some delicious banh mi done up just like her Viet "mom used to make". The meat choice changes weekly (plus there's a standing mushroom/walnut/bell pepper/tofu veggie number), and fixins' include pickled carrot, daikon radish, jalapeno, and cilantro on rice/wheat baguette from a bakery in San Jose whose bread's supposedly as close as you can get to real-deal Vietnamese -- just another feather in San Jose's feather-filled cap.

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