![]() ![]() We have Cambodians, Loatians and the Vietnamese and I don't think any of them like one another as a group. After the young guys left, he told me that I should stay away from the younger Vietnamese because they were all in gangs and liked to shoot people but that anyone that was considered his friend, such a me, would be all right because they respected and even feared him. I was playing one of them and while we were playing, several young Vietnamese guys (mid to late teens) came up to him and they had a brief conversation in Vietnamese. They were all in their late 20's or early 30's. We had 3 Vietnamese guys that used to love to play 9b for money. They tried to open another one and the city council refused to give them a license. We had a pretty big Vietnamese pool hall where I live and it got so roudy the police finally closed it down. I tried to tell the guy I was playing that he could play on heated 10' tables for less money at College Billiards, but I think they like having their own space and they probably gamble it up big sometimes. They seemed a little excited to have a white guy who actually can play billiards come in. I played some three cushion in San Diego at a place that charged 6-8 bucks an hour to play on a 8' billiards table with slow cloth. I've been in some other Asian pool halls and noticed that they charge higher rates, usually play on smaller tables with crappy cloth, and Asian pool halls seem to have 99+% Asian players. I tried to drop in and check out a Vietnamese pool hall in San Jose, CA but the local gangbangers in there didn't look happy (only time in my life a room actually stopped when I walked in) and the equipment was crap so I left. I've been to about 50 different Vietnamese restauraunts- I like it much better than Chinese food. There's a Vietnamese place in San Diego (Saigon)that offers chicken curry with a baguette, for example. I've heard that the word "pho",the beef noodle soup so popular at Viet restaurants, comes from the term "pot de feux". Vietnamese restaurants still have some french influences though, like espresso drinks. The French had their hand in Viet affairs for a long time but after they got beat up and had to leave the country, I think their influence began to wane. I think only older Vietnamese would have much chance of speaking French. ![]()
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