The restaurant doesn't look like much in it windowless basement. As usual the low brow Asian restaurants in Montreal seem to be squatting in a failed and former French Bistro with some added Asian art on the walls and a Buddha statue with offerings of apples. The gracious and polite owners can barely articulate English and even French, their second language in Viet Nam, but then I often have difficulties of my own understanding coarse accents. But we can always end up understanding each other and getting the business done. I give them cash and in return I get awesome delicious food.\n\nI think this review might be unfair as I only order one thing off the menu. That is the ridiculously delicious Banh Mi sandwich. Their Banh Mi deviates from the traditional Bahn Mi. But it doesn't matter. Usually Banh Mis are meat (pork, chicken, sausage, whatever) served with pickled carrots and daikon, cukes, cilantro, chili peppers, some kind of pat\u00e9 with mayo in a French baguette. This is a throwback to French colonial days. I always try to get mine mild, so out go the chilli sauce and or peppers. And I love that hoagie, with a passion. I tell everyone to try it. In fact I order them to get one of these brilliant sammies.\n\nHowever at Caravelle they have a different take on it. They don't have the tasty pat\u00e9 and the pickled veggies are replaced with a slaw of carrots and cabbage. Normally the pickled daikon rocks my world. But here, the simpler Banh Mi is still one serious delicious treat, inexpensive and always fresh. Even though I rapidly munch down the real foot long sub, I never feel bloated like one does eating a hefty sandwich, I feel rather refreshed. So I love it for both it amazing taste and the no-side effects. I dunno what it is about Banh Mis but I could easily eat them daily and never get bored and always find a new taste or texture to them. \n\nCheap quality eats with a coke for about 7$, now that's a lunch I can live with considering the rest of the restaurants never let me go without taking at least 20$ from my wallet. So anyone working near this spot, it is your duty to get this delicious Banh Mi sammy.
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