Bamboo Chopsticks, Westbank, BC

You don’t realize how much work goes into choosing a name, until your husband tells you that once you decide there is “NO GOING BACK.” I have a hard enough time making everyday decisions, let alone choosing a name that will pretty much be set in stone.

From the start knew that we wanted the name to be set around my mom, she was our reason for opening the restaurant, she would be the one making everything and we would be using all of her passed down recipes. Our brainstorming started with her place of birth, we tried her favorite city in Vietnam, changed it to her favorite dish to make. We thought about using her first name, tried her last name, my grandmas name anything and everything we could think of. We were stuck. We knew we wanted a name that was easy to pronounce, easy to remember and that if you drove