Review Banh Shop - Richmond

Decided to give this place a try even after reading a couple bad reviews (traveller's are sometimes grumpy), but I should have listened to them. This was probably one of the worst lunches I've ever paid $30 for. I tried the salad rolls. They were probably made a day or two prior to me eating them so the rice paper was hard and the lettuce inside was brown and gross. The "peanut sauce" was runny and overall, I'd say they were the worst salad rolls I've ever experienced. I also ordered the coconut chicken banh mi. Also awful. No coconut whatsoever so not sure why it's called that. The bread was at least a day or two old so it wasn't soft, just chewy. There was nothing on it for flavour. The chicken was boiled and had the white stringy fat on it like when you boil chicken. The flavour was mild and underwhelming. It was pretty disappointing to spend $30 on such a meal. I feel like they are only still open because they get one-time traveller's who only have a few options and decide to give it a try. If they had to rely on returning customers, they would have been gone as soon as they opened. Awful overall. If I could I'd say zero stars. Don't waste your money. Stand in the long line at Tim Hortons next door. You'll thank me!

Got the pork meatball banh mi. Not close to on par with the banh mi places in the lower mainland. They make it with a submarine bread that isn't toasted. Sauce is from the coleslaw, no pate or the sweet white mayo sauce. Veggies were not the pickled stuff. No hot pepper, limited amount of parsley. The meat isn't the same, as it had the Chinese BBQ type glaze on it. I'll give it a 2 as it did at least it filled my tummy. Wish it had Vietnamese ice coffee....

Decided on this place after checking out the other options in the terminal. Vegan, so was looking for something plant based - bad idea. Nothing at this place is vegan, and the two meals we got were not good - one was sooo hot (cooked at 600 degrees), and just not enjoyable at all. The other had way too many onions in it 👎. If you’re looking for something vegan and/or healthy, go to Joe The Juice.

Had a very average steak and egg breakfast bahn sandwich. It sounded great but man was it dry. Definitely could have been better but it wasn't the worst.

The food is great but the service is just sooooo bad. Just so slow (especially when trying to catch a flight) and most annoying thing is that the menu doesn't tell you anything about what's in the different dishes and when you ask "what is a blazing fire bowl or what is blazing noodles" they just say "it's your choice of meat on rice and vegetables " or "your choice of meat on noodles and vegetables " ummm can I please know like what sauce what vegetables etc? So it's always a guessing game.

Bad day? Here at 630 and nothing was available except steak or tofu bahn mi. Says they should be open til 10 but they were already running out of food. Line was very back logged. The steak bahn mi was just ok. Salty. Not worth $11.50.

Very good food we order blazing noodle amazing god blessed this is airport location🙏👍😋💕

I had the Banh fire with chicken which was very flavourful with a bit of heat which had rice, veggies and sour cream. My rating is three (yes I read the reviews) as the service was slow however considering the options in this section of the airport I would have the food again.