Carl Han ordered spicy snail soup, three kinds of banh cuon, and Hanoi grilled pork at Thien Thanh restaurant on Bellaire. Then he prepared several bowls of dipping sauces. For the meat-stuffed banh ...

I grew up scarfing platefuls of banh cuon — rice noodle rolls — which my parents fashioned from freshly made rice sheets that they’d line with a pork, shrimp and mushroom mixture and then fold into ...

How to describe the light and delicate northern Vietnamese dish that is banh cuon? Pronounced “bahn kwun,” they’ve been likened to crepes, ravioli and even burritos: luscious and filmy rice-flour ...

In a delicate plate of bánh cuốn opposite a bus stop on the edges of Hanoi’s old quarter, I find the answer to the age-old question of whether hot breakfasts are better than cold breakfasts. The ...