Lee’s Pho is one of the shops in the Food Court of Assi Supermercado in Duluth, and one easily overlooked in the wash of Chinese noodle shops and bulgogi on a bun. But I had a reader note that banh mi could be found in Assi, and that was enough to make me want to try the sandwich at this shop.
The sandwich I chose goes by the letter-number designation of “S3”, though that seemed to confuse the staff. “Pork sandwich” worked much better. On the take out menu it’s called a charbroiled pork sandwich and is decently sized when it arrived. They’re reasonably cheap, $3 each, and the sixth one is free if you order 5. To feed a family of six two sandwiches each would cost just $30.00.
I got my sandwich late enough I wasn’t expecting excellence. The bread seemed a little sweet and was good, but wasn’t the perfection you get when the bread comes right out of the oven. The pork was cold but tasty. There was a bit of a yellow condiment (probably mustard), pork, a white vegetable and plenty of jalapeño slices. Yes, not the perfection of a banh mi straight out of the oven on Buford Highway, but a lot of balance and plenty good. And it’s close to where I live, less than 15 minutes away by car. And if I want to bring lunch to work, this is an easy stop along the way.
Lee’s Pho
1630 Pleasant Hill Road, #A1
Duluth, GA 30096
(770) 931-8868
Food Near Snellville 
November 12, 2009 at 8:56 pm
That’s actually mayo (the yellow stuff). The banh mi are pretty tasty – and they go well with everything else in the food court (like the bulgogi burger at Yorijori Burger. Yes, I eat like a pig when I’m there…
November 13, 2009 at 12:03 am
If more bloggers did more eating there, I might get some reviews of that Korean soup place across from Lee’s. I’d like to hear more about what people think of the options in the Assi Food Court.
November 13, 2009 at 10:14 am
I think my problem is I’ve done a bunch of eating there, but no blogging. I didn’t try the Korean soup place because it has that horrible word in the name…. tofu.
November 13, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Okay, I have to ask: do you have any problems with egg whites? With animal brains? Both of these are foodstuffs with roughly the same consistency as tofu. I suspect with 1/3 tofu, 1/3 egg white, and 1/3 brain you would make a pretty darned good ‘scrambled egg’ or omelet.
November 13, 2009 at 2:06 pm
No, I eat eggs (not brains). The problem is not with texture. I understand that tofu is some kind of vegan superfood and all that – it’s just that it has no flavor (or in my book, no worthwhile flavor). I’d rather get my protein from a hunk of animal flesh.