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Various Sino dialectal groups have their respective clan associations/ temples along the same stretch in historic Hoi An.

This is the flip side of “events in 1975” as a society elder put to us: Chinese education was wiped out after South Vietnam fell, and many Chinese-Vietnamese emigrated out. The few who are left don’t speak Chinese much, although the older generation does. They were quite happy to speak to us in Chinese.

Lee Kuan Yew is very popular among them, and therefore, Singapore. Don’t think the many multitudes of Singaporean tourists had an actual conversation with them though.