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Hey, welcome to Bay.
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Hi, my name is Lee and I'm the chef owner,
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operator of be Vietnamese Street Food and Comfort Food in Los Angeles
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California. Can I get one coffee,
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It's been really nice and different I vibe very well
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with the customers, everyone's very friendly being from L A
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it seems like everybody vibe very similar to me.
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And with our culture,
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how's your day going?
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Good, good. The culture here is just deeply embedded.
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The Latino culture is deeply embedded and also having worked in different
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kitchens with a lot of different Latino chefs and seeing that it
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could really be any kitchen,
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any type of food and you look to the back of house
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and you'll see Latinos cooking all types of food and you know
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doing an awesome job at being able to do it and
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really having those skills transferred to many types of food.
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Yuca Ado Camote Ado Cosas Chia Combi Consul Comida Irregular Men
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Nosotros com Eans Elo Consumo.
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There is so much similarities.
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We get our bread every day from a Panaderia and it's a
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Central American bakery. But the pan Frances is exactly the type
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of texture we use for our ban maize.
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So many things, I mean,
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we can just name it all the fresh herbs.
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You know, the cilantro,
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the Vietnam and Central America is on the same latitude.
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So a lot of things just sort of grow similarly.
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I see Latinos come and enjoying the food as well.
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I see returning customers and people that I know are coming
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and it's really nice to see like different cultures coming together.
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no oriental que pero es Latino.
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Ia a Preser for us being a small restaurant.
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I that it's important to set a standard,
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you know, for the big guys,
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let's say. And so we separate all of our recycling
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from the trash and we separate all of our organics.
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And I really make it a point to train the staff to
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do it. The specials we do for folks in the neighborhood
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who can't afford it or are unhoused.
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It's something that's been a mission of the restaurant for a long
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time. Our mission is to do fresh,
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affordable, flavorful Vietnamese food to pay our workers decently and also
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to not turn anybody in need away in our neighborhood.
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We've been here over three years and it's something,
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it's a very special neighborhood.
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