‘I am not a virus’: France’s Asian community pushes back over xenophobia | Malay Mail

Saturday, 01 Feb 2020 12:47 PM MYT

Some nervous customers have begun to ask waiting staff if they are Chinese, according to Corlier, whose Vietnamese father-in-law runs the kitchen and serves up traditional dishes like pho soup. Others are simply staying away. As well as Chinese nationals, France’s big Asian community includes many people of Cambodian and Laotian descent, and one of the largest contingents of Vietnamese overseas — a legacy of France’s former colonial presence in south-east Asia.

Worries over the virus are reverberating across Paris in other ways too, with high-end stores that rely on Chinese tour groups hurting as the flow of visitors dries up. At some retailers, staff said French customers were also staying away, partly out of fear of mingling with Asian clients. Restaurant owner Pascal Corlier poses inside his restaurant Comme au Vietnam in Paris, France, January 31, 2020. — Reuters pic

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