TN Cheap Lunch Roundup

Toronto's historical Chinatown around a Dundas and Spadina is also home to a Vietnamese residential and commercial area. On the West side of Spadina, between Dundas and Baldwin, lie a few shops where you can get Banh Mi (supply your own diacritics), the Vietnamese po' boy, perhaps the best legacy of France's colonial occupation of Vietnam.

The Banh Mi is a sandwich of mostly unidentifiable cold cuts on crunchy, flaky French bread. Topped off with butter, Mayonnaise, some kind of pickled cabbage and sweet onions, hot peppers (upon request), and fresh cilantro, this is one tasty-ass sandwich, and a refreshing source of starch on a hot day. What's more, they're only $1.50 each, and for a guy who's motto is "So what's the special today?", that's one of the best lunch deals in Toronto. Not for the mystery meat-intolerant. (I like to think of it as "Viet-Spam".)