Bánh cuốn, namesake of this restaurant and featured on my house combo plate, are made from a lightly fermented rice batter. Steamed on a cloth stretched over a pot of boiling water, the batter sets quickly. The resulting gossamer-thin sheet is rolled onto a dowel, unrolled onto a prep surface, filled with the likes of chopped mushrooms and ground pork, and rolled up once more. Mine were particularly supple.
Also shown, video entertainment: Billie Eilish, captioned in Vietnamese as well as English. The translation for "duh" was comically long.
Banh Cuon Thanh Long
6757 Wilson Blvd., Unit 22, Eden Center, Falls Church, Virginia
703-534-1746
https://BCTLV.webs.com
(From a visit in late winter)