TO MY WESTERN EYE, THEY LOOK LIKE INDIAN SAMOSAS. Others have compared them with Cornish pasties. Another early food priority of the Novemeber/December 2010 trip! I believe they sell this stuff near the City Star Hotel! Noodlepie says: "You can find this anytime-of-day snack all over town. Mine came served in an ingenious little snack pocket made of crumpled up magazine advertisement pages with a bag of sweet chili dipping sauce. They cost around 5,000VD a throw (US$1 = 15,700VD). The centre is filled with lightly spiced minced pork and onions. The pastry is fried to a thin crisp giving a satisfying crunchy-munch."

The thing in the photo above is not banh goi. I don't know what it is called, but maybe it is on the banh goi bent. I bought it from a bread shop across the road from the Cultural Park, near a proper banh goi streetstall. Pikelet and Pie says: "Bánh gối, or pillow cakes, seem to be the curry-less curry puff of Vietnamese cuisine. Deep fried pastry perfection encasing a texturally diverse jumble of glass noodles, minced pork, wood ear mushrooms and thin slices of lap cheong. Crisp, flaky exteriors, flavourful fillings. Dip them in the your self-adjusted sauce and alternate mouthfuls with cold vermicelli noodles and plentiful fresh herbs..."