{"id":75677,"date":"2025-12-19T17:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/75677\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T17:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:14:10","slug":"restaurant-review-banh-anh-em-in-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/75677\/","title":{"rendered":"Restaurant Review: B\u00e1nh Anh Em in Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Restaurant Review: B\u00e1nh Anh Em in Manhattan<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p>Back<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<p>Restaurant Review: B\u00e1nh Anh Em in ManhattanB\u00e1nh Anh Em, in Manhattan\u2019s East Village, sizzles with scrappy, ad-hoc cooking that shows off the full fervor of Vietnamese cuisine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">There\u2019s exuberance. The plates are just brimming over. This is my review of B\u00e1nh Anh Em, a Vietnamese restaurant in the East Village. The chef Nhu Ton and her business partner, John Nguyen, opened B\u00e1nh Anh Em last March. It\u2019s a follow-up to their Upper West Side restaurant, Bon Vietnamese Shop House. B\u00e1nh Anh Em is more ambitious and expansive. So many things are made in-house. Bread for the b\u00e1nh m\u00ec, which has perfect crackle and then caves in. I\u2019ve never seen such big b\u00e1nh m\u00ec. They\u2019re incredibly generous. You should know that B\u00e1nh Anh Em does not take reservations, so it\u2019s a good idea to get there before it opens. My favorite seats are at the counter. I was particularly mesmerized watching the woman who makes b\u00e1nh cu\u1ed1n. It\u2019s filled with ground pork and wood ear mushrooms that are chopped fine, but still have just a little bit of a bounce. These rice sheets are found across the menu in different forms. You might get a whole tower of them in b\u00e1nh u\u1edbt ch\u1ed3ng. You can roll them up yourself around flaps of pork jowl that are smoky, and pink strips of cured beef. B\u00e1nh beo are little rice cakes, each in their own saucer. The idea is you almost slurp them like oysters. The b\u00fan ch\u1ea3, you get these juicy patties of pork jowl, and you can see the flecks of char in the n\u01b0\u1edbc ch\u1ea5m, and it almost tastes as if the liquid itself has been through fire. The kitchen has only one vat for pho, so they have to mostly alternate between ph\u1edf b\u00f2 and ph\u1edf g\u00e0. They\u2019re both great. You can even order just the broth to go. When I brought it home, it was still hot after 40 minutes on the subway and I drank it straight from the plastic tub, standing in my kitchen, feeling it lining my insides and I thought to myself, let winter come.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A plate of b\u00e1nh cu\u1ed1n, a half-noodle, half-crepe of fermented rice flour, rolled up around ground pork and wood-ear mushrooms and topped with crispy shallots and cilantro, with side saucers of n\u01b0\u1edbc ch\u1ea5m, pickles and chile sauce.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/11FD-rest-banh-08-fvpj-jumbo.jpg\" data-testid=\"betamax-poster\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"_poster_13tnt_20\"\/>B\u00e1nh Anh Em, in Manhattan\u2019s East Village, sizzles with scrappy, ad-hoc cooking that shows off the full fervor of Vietnamese cuisine.<\/p>\n<p>By Nyt Food<\/p>\n<p>December 19, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"new video loaded: Restaurant Review: B\u00e1nh Anh Em in Manhattan transcript Back transcript Restaurant Review: B\u00e1nh Anh Em&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[37961,75,84,83,9,24,63,1302,37960],"class_list":["post-75677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-east-village-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-restaurant","tag-vietnamese-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}