Where to Find Vietnamese Grilled Shrimp Paste on Sugar Cane Skewers?

[natalie]

Hi, all. I’m looking for a specific Vietnamese dish called “Grilled Shrimp Paste on Sugar Cane Skewers,” or “Banh Hoi Chao Tom Cuon Banh Trang,” but without the diacritical marks. Any recommendations of where to find this taste treat at a Bay Area restaurant? Many thanks.

[Robert Lauriston]

One of the stalls in the Grand Centrury food court has those.

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Grand Century Shopping Mall
1001 Story Rd, San Jose, CA

[rabaja]

Aux Delices on Polk has it. Love them there.

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Aux Delices
2327 Polk St, San Francisco, CA 94109

[sairuh]

I like this dish at Vung Tau, just outside downtown San José. They serve it with the fine vermicelli rice cakes, table salad+herbs and fish sauce, although this might be typical for this dish's presentation...

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Vung Tau Restaurant
535 E Santa Clara St, San Jose, CA 95112

[chefj]

Pho King in Oakland also has them.

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Pho King
638 International Blvd, Oakland, CA 94606

[DezzerSF]

Quan Bac has it as well.

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Quan Bac
4112 Geary Blvd, San Francisco, CA 94118

[Ruth Lafler]

The only place I remember having it was Binh Minh Quan in Oakland. I ran a quick search (did you know that menupages has a "find a food" search option?) and came up with (in addition to Pagolac, good work artemis!), Kim Thanh, La Vie and Jasmine Garden.

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Binh Minh Quan
338 12th St, Oakland, CA 94607

Pagolac
655 Larkin St, San Francisco, CA 94109

Jasmine Garden
708 14th St, San Francisco, CA 94114

Kim Thanh
607 Geary St, San Francisco, CA 94102

[natalie]

Thanks all. I just made a punch list of those restaurants. And Ruth, I didn't know about the "find a food" search option but will use it next time. Appreciate the tip.

[Ruth Lafler]

It's a pretty cool little feature. Of course it's limited to the restaurants that are on menupages, but menupages for San Francisco is pretty comprehensive.

[artemis]

Thanks Ruth - I order it regularly there :).

[sfbing]

In SF, Anh Hong. (Which, BTW, has better banh hoi than Pagolac.)

[artemis]

Pagolac has that.

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Pagolac
655 Larkin St, San Francisco, CA 94109

[SteveG]

...And Pagolac's is pretty tasty. A non-literal translation for those curious what this tastes like would be more along the lines of "Shrimp forcemeat grilled on slabs of sugar cane." It's sort of like a shrimp fish ball in kebab form that picks up sweetness from the sugarcane.

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Pagolac
655 Larkin St, San Francisco, CA 94109