Gio Cha Cali

Best place to go for cha (Vietnamese pork roll). Different styles of cha. All fresh and hot… love that. Great place to grab some premade food to take home. They have some fresh che (vietnamese dessert).
Overall, an awesome place to pick up some cha and other vietnamese goodies for an affordable price.

So delicious. This place brings be back to my childhood, especially memories of the food that my grandmother would feed my brother and I.

This is my go to spot for fresh gio lua (pork roll). I grew up in California so I used to buy them fresh and it took years for a place like this to open in Denver. It’s a small run down place but sufficient. I prefer the taste of gio hue and I don’t care for the taste of the gio lua. I don’t have to bring back a bunch of gio lua when I visit Cali now. I give it 5 stars because they sell banh it la gai (black glutinous rice cake). My grandma made them but since she passed ten years ago I haven’t been able to find one that tasted like hers till now.

This place specialized in Gio Cha and banh cuon (rice paper rolls). Everything is made right on the premise, so expect delicious, authentic, and fresh food. The new owners have been operating at this spot for about three years. They have introduced a few new dishes such as bi, flan, and vietnamese yoghurt. I’ve tried them all and they were delicious. They also have killer fish sauce which comes with banh cuon or you can buy it for $ 1 a bottle. If I live in Denver, I would be visiting here at least once a week. Awesome place and great value for your money!
Tip: if you can’t speak Vietnamese, prepare to point. English is their second language :-)

In the same South Federal stripmall as the fabled Ba Le and Phở 95 sits another Vietnamese treasure, Gio Cha Cali.
As their sign states, Gio Cha Cali’s intent is to provide you with «Food To Go», and as their name might suggest, their primary focus is Gio Cha. No, not the crispy eggrolls — you’re thinking of Cha Gio. Instead, Gio Cha are a type of yummy Vietnamese sausage consisting of finely chopped meat and other ingredients mixed together, then tightly rolled up and steamed or boiled. Varieties on offer here include Bo (juicy beef), Lua (lean pork), and Bi (made from the same pork with the addition of jiggly pork skin and generous lashings of black pepper).
Gio Cha Cali also offers you a number of other snacks, sweets and savories, many of which revolve around steamed glutinous rice. The Xoi Dau Den is a slightly sweet mixture of rice and black beans, while Banh Gio are jaunty pyramids also featuring minced pork and quail eggs. Meanwhile, the always-​delightful Banh Chung (particularly popular during Tet, or Vietnamese New Year) are compact little boxes of rice, pork and mung beans which are then wrapped in either La Dong (arrowroot) or banana leaves and then steamed. Everybody Banh Chung tonight!
No, despite what you may have heard, Gio Cha Cali in fact no longer offers Banh Mi sandwiches, preferring to leave those to Ba Le a few doors down. But there’s so much else available here that you honestly won’t miss them.