Little Vietnam?

We had lunch at a Vietnamese restaurant in a Vietnamese part of Bangkok, then strolled around the neighborhood. There have been several waves of Vietnamese immigration to Thailand over the past couple centuries, many settled in the northeast, but some came to Bangkok as well. The church in the picture was originally built in the 1830s when over a thousand Vietnamese came to Thailand fleeing religious persecution. The Thais gave them funds to build the church, though the current one was built in 1903 after the first one was destroyed in a storm. The surrounding area was given to the Vietnamese and many of their descendants still live in the neighborhood.