Restaurant Renovation

Phu My Hung doesn’t behave like the rest of Ho Chi Minh City, and a restaurant design built for District 1’s narrow shophouses or Thao Dien’s converted villas usually needs real rework before it fits here. This is a master-planned township with wide boulevards, artificial lakes, and shopping malls instead…

A Korean restaurant that would stand out easily in Thao Dien or District 1 can disappear into the background in Phu My Hung, because it’s competing against a half-dozen other Korean restaurants within a five-minute walk, all trying to reach the same customers who grew up eating the real thing…

A restaurant design that works perfectly in Thao Dien or District 7 can fail in District 1 for reasons that have nothing to do with taste. District 1 charges some of the highest F&B rent in the city, hands out narrow shophouse footprints instead of open floor plates, and packs…

Most restaurant opening delays in Vietnam don’t come from any single mistake — they come from treating licensing, fit-out, and staffing as three separate projects run one after another, when they actually need to run in parallel on a single shared timeline. A kitchen built to a layout that fire…

A renovation quote for a former retail unit and a quote for a space that already operated as a restaurant can differ by 30% before a single finish is chosen — because one already has a grease trap, gas line, and exhaust duct, and the other needs all three installed…