Vietnam-Japan Online International Collaborative Learning Project: Fieldwork at “Aobaba” (Vietnamese restaurant in Mito) (Wednesday, August 28)

Ibaraki University and Haiphong University in Vietnam have been conducting international collaborative education using the COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) method as part of exchange activities between the two institutions. This summer, we are visiting Vietnamese restaurants in Mito City, Ibaraki Prefecture, and Japanese restaurants in Haiphong City, Vietnam, to find out (1) how Japanese/Vietnamese culture is consumed by local people in each region, (2) what strategies companies are using to gain acceptance by local people, and (3) what can be done to make Japanese/Vietnamese culture more acceptable in each region?

On Wednesday, August 28, seven students from Ibaraki University participating in this activity visited Aobaba, a Vietnamese restaurant in Mito, to conduct an interview. During the interview, everyone first ate the restaurant's food, followed by a one-hour interview. The interview was distributed to ten students at Haiphong University in Vietnam.

We heard many very interesting stories about running a Vietnamese restaurant in Japan(^^♪