We also offer various sizes that can accommodate the individual foody and beyond to larger party trays, more suitable for parties or family gatherings. To place an order for an in-store pickup, please call us at Each order is crafted with rice paper strips mixed in with our secret savory sauces and toped with premium beef jerky, freshly shredded mango, quail eggs, basil.
This video highlights our store as we continued to stay open open through this past holiday season. We are dedicated to staying open every day of the week, almost year-round, to serve our loyal customers the drinks and snacks they deserve. Have a wonderful ! Says he: "No one wants to risk their reputation in the community by refusal to pay.
People who have lost money in a loan club rarely complain to the police, but that may be changing. Court documents show that Cabling partly financed several small businesses in San Francisco with money from the keh. When her stores started losing money and word of her financial problems spread, the loan clubs disintegrated. If the court decides to protect the keh deposits by ordering Cabling to pay up, the case, which is expected to come to trial later this summer, could set an important precedent.
Whatever the outcome, hard-pressed immigrants will go on joining ethnic loan clubs. For many, the informal banks represent a leg up on the American dream. Someday the language and cultural barriers that hold back immigrants may start to crumble.
Until then, the loan clubs will no doubtprosper. But more than a change in the name, it is an event, the passing of an institution from one generation of immigrant to another.
You meet a sophisticated woman by, the name of Kim Nguyen, the manager. She is Vietnamese, well educated, fluent in French and English. She steered me into a dining room, into the den that the former owner, Giacchino Paolo Aiello, an Italian immigrant who changed his name to Jack Allen, presided over as a personal trading post of business influence and political gossip.
Do Van Tron, a 32 year-old entrepreneur, owns the place now. The cuisine has gone from sophisticated Intalian to sophisticated French-Vietnamese. He laughed when I told him his restaurant was once a drive-in burger joint. His father was a prosperous businessman and, therefore, a declared enemy of the communists, who took over in The details of his escape, including a shootout with Thai pirates, Tron hopes to make into a motion picture.
His Friend Oliver Stone also wants to try. He was in San Jose recently casting for a movie project based on the stories of Vietnamese refugees. It is scheduled to be shot in Thailand late this year or early next. To truly tell of these painful experiences, it can only be made by Vietnamese.
It will be a success. To wish him well was all that was due. Robert L. Driving along the freeway while fiddling with the radio dial, I found a Vietnamese music station at AM KSJX , with schmaltzy ballads interrupted by high-pitched frenetic advertisements.
The ubiquitous Do Van Tron also stages numerous literary, cultural and musical events, along with beauty pageants and fashion shows. Tron is the 11 th of 18 children, which is not considered an unusually large family in Vietnam. His father was a merchant in Pleiku, which is in the highlands of Vietnam and was the first city to fall during the fateful spring in After 13 attempts, Tron finally escaped from Vietnam.
Although the ultimate journey was successful, it was so harrowing that he was propelled into a frenzy of work to put distance between that nightmare and his hard-woon new life. Penniless, he arrived with two younger brothers in Orange County in He supported himself by writing for various publications, but quickly realized that a fortune could be made catering exclusively in the Vietnamese community. Sleeping out of his car, he solicited advertising, designed, printed and distributed them himself.
Now he drives a Jaguar XJ6, owns real estate and business in multiplying. His only failure so far was not being able to promote cai luong, a Vietnamese version of country and western opera AE- a twangy, down home music that I find inexplicably wonderful. Quiet and soft-spoken, he is an anomaly in the Vietnamese community.
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