Pork tacos with pickled carrots and daikon

These tacos are what I playfully dub bánh mì tacos — bánh mì being the specialty sandwich of Vietnam. I grew up on the cultural classic and fondly remember my mother slipping a homemade bánh mì in my lunchbox every morning for years. Later on, it became my mission through college to find bánh mì as savory, juicy, and crisp as the ones I remembered from my childhood. Now that I live in Califor­nia, where Vietnamese cuisine is abundant, authentic bánh mì is tied with another regional staple: Mexican food. These tacos bring the two together.