Thursday, April 15, 2021, 14:22 GMT+7
Bui Ngoc Diep, 72, laughs while sitting next to her grandson to enjoy crab paste vermicelli soup in Tran Thi Quynh Mai’s restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City. Photo: Ngoc Phuong / Tuoi Tre
Running a small restaurant selling noodles for a living, Tran Thi Quynh Mai is also willing to give away meals for free to people in need.
To many poor laborers who live in the neighborhood, Mai’s restaurant selling ‘bun rieu’ - crab paste vermicelli soup - has been a familiar destination for the last seven months.
Mai, who is about four months into her pregnancy, has sold ‘bun rieu’ in a family restaurant based on Nguyen Van Tao Road in Nha Be District, which is in the outskirts of the Ho Chi Minh City, for about seven months.