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| - This place could have been amazing, I'll never know.
My husband, who is vegetarian/vegan, and I, being Vietnamese, thought this would be a great place to try during our visit to PHX this past weekend.
The trouble started when the owner, a white man, asked me why I didn't have a "vietnamese nose". I was taken aback, and did not know how to respond. I said, "what do you mean?" he replied, "you know, wider and flatter. You know, my wife is Chinese and raised in Vietnam." I was flabbergasted. I mean, I know he wasn't intending to be hurtful or borderline racist or whatnot, but it really bothered me that he felt he could say this to a complete stranger, let alone a patron in his restaurant, and that he felt justified simply because his wife is asian?? All I could muster up was "uhhh you'll find that people can look a variety of ways."
I don't know, even though he apologized, my husband and I were left with a very bad taste in our mouths and we ended up leaving before we could order.
The owner was just weird, unprofessional, and inappropriate. It doesn't matter if the food is good, we weren't even able to get to that point. It all turned out great though, because we ended up going to Green (see my review) that was close by, and it ended up being even better.
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