08-20-2018, 12:20 AM
(08-16-2018, 06:06 PM)GtwoK Wrote:(08-16-2018, 05:17 PM)jgsz Wrote: Actually, Ben Thanh is Vietnamese, not Thai. It is named after a large market place in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. If I were to join a group (not a bad idea) I would like the organizer to be accurate.
IIRC, their sign directly calls it "Viet-Thai" food?
Vietnamese people seem to be good at opening restaurants with non-Vietnamese cuisine; for a while, I heard a lot of Vietnamese spoken by staff at Montreal sushi places. Ben Thanh is definitely named after a Vietnamese place but has dim sum and Thai food as well. I would definitely not call it a Thai restaurant though, and I feel that this is one ethnic identity that I do get some say about.