In May 2005, we opened our first restaurant in Jiyugaoka, which at the time was known as the “sweets town”. At the time, Vietnamese food was still unfamiliar even in the heart of Tokyo, and many people were confused with Thai food, which is also a part of Southeast Asia. As far back as 2003, before the opening of the restaurant, I visited Ho Chi Minh City for the first time and ate delicious Vietnamese food every day, which was easily accessible to the Japanese taste buds. He also noticed that many of those who had traveled to Vietnam wanted to recreate the taste of the food they had experienced in Japan, and this desire became even stronger. Whenever I found a popular Vietnamese restaurant, I would make time to visit it myself to get a taste of the restaurant. I visited many of them. But unfortunately, we couldn’t find a restaurant in Japan that could reproduce that taste. Therefore, we decided to open Quan An Tam with a strong desire to do it ourselves.