Nhu Lan

Although Nhu Lan is often described as hidden away and hard to find, I found it rather easily; it's in the small mall under the Eden Center tower. It is the smallest of the banh mi places I tried at the center. While their sandwich was perfectly fine, it wasn't anything special. I can only guess that the main appeal of this place (it got rave reviews on chowhound and in the Washington Post) is that for your average Washington Post reader it seems out of the way, in a kind of "people like us don't ordinarily eat here" sort of way.