BAMBOO CHOPSTICKS

With its origins in a traditional home kitchen full of rich flavors, the dream of opening up a restaurant for our mom turned into reality when Bamboo Chopsticks Restaurants opened our first set of doors in 2011... You don't realize how much work goes into choosing a name, until your husband tells you that once you decide there is "NO GOING BACK." I have a hard enough time making everyday decisions, let alone choosing a name that will pretty much be set in stone. From the start we knew that we wanted the name to be set around my mom, she was our reason for opening the restaurant, she would be the one making everything and we would be using all of her passed down recipes. Our brainstorming started with her place of birth, we tried her favorite city in Vietnam, changed it to her favorite dish to make. We thought about using her first name, tried her last name, my grandmas name anything and everything we could think of. We were stuck. We knew we wanted a name that was easy to pronounce,..

Primary location: Kelowna Canada