SOME OF THE RESTAURANTS

MENU: 3.1.5. Some of the restaurants

INEXPENSIVE ASIAN RESTAURANTS DOT THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND EXTEND BEYOND IT  

Ice cream nems at Thai Royal

In brief

• The multitude on avenue d'Ivry

• A bustling Vietnamese cantine 

• Thai decor as refined as the cuisine

• A Chinese feast on an unlikely street

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The multitude on avenue d'Ivry

THE MULTITUDE ON AVENUE D'IVRY

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A bustling Vietnamese cantine

A BUSTLING VIETNAMESE CANTEEN

Le Bambou 

70 rue Baudricourt

The cheerful ambiance can lead to striking up a conversation with a person sitting near you...

A Korean businessman I spoke to

said he always came to this restaurant when in Paris,

because he thought its soups were the city's best.

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Thai decor as refined as the cuisine

THAI DECOR AS REFINED AS THE CUISINE

THE THAI EMBASSY RECOMMENDS THIS RESTAURANT

Thai Royal

97 avenue d'Ivry

"Sam," the owner

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A suggestion for event organizers

The second floor

Prolong the neighborhood discovery

with a dinner and Asian music 

in a room you can reserve.

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A Chinese feast on an unlikely street

A CHINESE FEAST ON AN UNLIKELY STREET

 

A TOWER OF THE ASIAN NEIGHBORHOOD CALLS OUT IN THE DARK

But this restaurant is in a French neighborhood where many residents are elderly, and nighttime calm is like that of a small provincial town. 

Asian music plays softly in the night. 

 La Mer de Chine

159 rue du Château des Rentiers 

Prestigious recommendations 

Madame Figaro and Gault-Millau

"The new generation has taken up the baton," says Simon (the French name he has chosen), who now runs the family restaurant:

Attracting clients to such an unlikely spot

is proof of excellence.

(Since 1986)

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3.1.6.

Asians emerge from the shadows