Description
Lynda Sandwich in Westminster is a Vietnamese bakery that sells bánh mì but also specializes in New Orleans-style French pastries, specifically beignets. Beignets are a very specific style of doughnut: yeasted dough rolled out thin and fried up puffy and crisp. Unlike at a more traditional doughnut shop, the folks at Lynda Sandwich don't make your beignets until you order them. It might take 10 minutes, but they're worth the wait. Lynda Sandwich pays equal attention to making this specialty from New Orleans. It fries up two shapes of beignet: small triangles that puff up hollow and crisp on each corner, or finger-shaped strips that stay chewy. It's up to you which texture you prefer. Each shape can be flavored in three ways: traditional powdered sugar, honey-and-turbinado sugar, or cinnamon sugar. A $3.50 order is big enough to share, but you'll want your own order—trust us. Each variation comes with a pool of sweetened condensed milk at the bottom, which you'll mop up with the lusty greed of a rutting animal.
