Are there alot of Vietnamese people in Philipine?

Question

If so, how many are there approximately?

Which island(s) do they live mostly?

I thought there were numerous amount of Việt people that had fled from their country by boat and had landed in Phillipine and some had married to Phillipino women and had decided to reside in Phillipine as their new home, legally of course!

Thank you all of my Phillipino friends & American(s)/European(s) friends for your feedbacks!

Sorry, there are so many good answers here, I can't decide it. I'll let the audiences be the judge this time...hehe!

Answer 1

Am sure there are Vietnamese but not as much as Chinese and Koreans living in the Philippines..nationwide. <*-*>

Answer 2

If Janna says there are over 1,000 Vietnamese in the Philippines, then it must be true.

In fact, there was a recent TFC news item about an "estero" (canal) slum area they called "Little Vietnam" where they found several bodies dumped there, drug cartel slayings, perhaps. Reminiscent of the predicament Robert De Niro's friend suffered in "DeerHunter", tied up in the water filled with hungry rats. There is also a Maricel Soriano serial, I forgot the title, but they were , in the story, Vietnamese transplanted to the Philippines. In my province of Bataan, there was also a settlement of Vietnamese refugees.

Answer 3

I once went to Morong Bataan where there was a Refugee processing camp for the Vietnamese boat people. And also there is a thriving Vietnamese community in Puerto Princesa. I even had lunch in a Vietnamese restaurant there, which looked pretty much like a Filipino restaurant because it is made of bamboo.

Answer 4

Most of the Vietnamese people are boat people fleeing the Vietnam war and they were contained in a Refugeee Processing Zone(s). Right now, most of them are either in Canada or the US and they still reminisce their stay in the Philippines especially Eat Bulaga!

Answer 5

Yes, there used to be a lot of Vietnamese in the Philippines, particularly in Cavite and Palawan, and lived in "refugee communities". However, some either immigrated to US or were forced to return to Vietnam.

Nowadays, there aren't that many Vietnamese, although they still stay within their own community.

Answer 6

There are but not as many as Chinese...actually I do have Vietnamese neighbors who grew up here in the Philippines, married Filipinos and they speak Tagalog because they don't know how to speak their native language in Vietnam anymore.

Answer 7

Yes, there's a lot of vietnamese people here mostly in Palawan. Actually there's already a vietnamese village in Puerto Princesa City.

Answer 8

◘About 1,500 Vietnamese are still living in the Philip-pines, most in resettlement camps.

◘there's one in Santa Lourdes, which is about 15 kms. from central Puerto Princesa.

◘Vietville, which is how this settlement of about 155 houses is called.

i went to palawan before and i met some viets when we ate on one of the restaus. i just forgot the name of the place.

Answer 9

well.... maybe... but most Asian immigrants that go to the Philippines are Chinese (as you know, there are some chinatowns in the Philippines), Koreans (most of them go there to study English), Indians (you know, 5-6 thingys), Japanese (businesses, Filipinas), Malaysians and Indonesians (most are in Mindanao), etc...

Answer 10

No, it's mostly Filipinos, Koreans, and Chinese :-)

Actually I have never met any Vietnamese here.