An immigrant from Vietnam, Fan Shi Qing, enables more people to have a taste of her hometown food

In cooperation with IC Voice FM97.5 【New Students Report For Sharing -We are in Taiwan】, a series of exciting stories about new immigrants in Taiwan is launched. This episode invites an immigrant from Vietnam - Fan Shi Qing (范氏青), who is the founder of the restaurant “Qing Qing Nan Xiang Mei Shi (青青南鄉美食)”. After settling down in Taiwan with her husband, she wished to enable more people to have a taste of her hometown food without traveling to Vietnam.

【Taiwan Immigrants' Global News Network】presents this episode in 5 languages including Chinese, English, Vietnamese, Thai and Indonesian, enabling more readers and listeners to explore Fan Shi Qing’s entrepreneurship journey and life in Taiwan.

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She wished to enable more people to have a taste of her hometown food. (Photo / Provided by Fan Shi Qing)

Despite not being supported by her family at first, Fan’s husband convinced the whole family through his heartwarming acts of kindness. Fan said she is blessed as relatives of her husband all treat her very well, especially during and after her pregnancy.

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She started running a restaurant located in Xuefu Road, Hsinchu City in 2020. (Photo / Provided by Fan Shi Qing)

As Vietnamese is Fan’s mother language, she served as staff in human resources recruitment agency and assisted the fellow Vietnamese residing in Taiwan.

Since young, she had a dream of setting up a food stall and she realized it. Although starting a business is challenging, she still wants to introduce Vietnamese cultures and gourmet food to more people through dishes available in her stall. Therefore, she started running a restaurant located in Xuefu Road, Hsinchu City in 2020.

The signature dish of the food stall is “Bun Cha Phumy”. (Photo / Provided by Fan Shi Qing)

The signature dish of the food stall is “Bun Cha Phumy (烤肉米線)”. The taste of it is fresh and appetizing, and the flavor has been adjusted according to the customer’s feedback. Fan feels touched that her friends visited the food stall during the pandemic, and this motivates her to continue the business.

Besides, Fan also attaches great importance to her child's education and often spends quality time with him. In school, his son introduces Vietnamese culture to her classmates and tells everyone her mom is from Vietnam proudly. During holidays, he is also a little helper at the food stall.