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Dear Selonyx To keep open a foreign vegetarian/vegan restaurant in Vietnam is not that simple & easy…... I would invite You to volunteer for a while in my restaurant to understand what I mean d:)……….Most of the Vietnamese vegetarian customer go to local Dalat vegetarian restaurants (about 30 in Dalat). To attract foreign customer, you need to have foreign special ingredients (olive oil, capers, Pine nuts, buckwheat, millet, chia seeds, lentils, cumin, chickpeas, couscous, barley, spelt, etc etc) to make the difference and to buy imported ingredients is expensive. Even then is not easy because foreign vegetarian/vegan tourist use to stay in Dalat just a couple of days and often they discover my restaurant the last day d:). Most of them appreciate the food, the ambiance and the service and after that they warmly greet me saying they will come back next year (perhaps). ……Is difficult to have vegetarian customer who come regularly to the restaurant so is very difficult to contain the expenses. Even though I consider my restaurant not expensive I’m aware that if you want you can find cheaper Vietnamese vegetarian restaurants even with vegan food ………due this reason I don’t understand why if you were looking for cheap vegan food (cookies) you decide to stop in my restaurant d:) To open a vegetarian/vegan restaurant in Vietnam you don’t make money, it is a kind of “mission enterprise”……..(I could open a Italian restaurant and make nice Profits d:)) I open a Vegetarian restaurant for an environmental cause basically because I still hope in a better future …………vegetarian/vegan people are supposed to know that and understand that run this type of business is not easy, I’m not looking for support but honestly I don’t understand all this unfair aggressive attitude either d:(