Talk:Saigon Hotpot

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by HurricaneZeta (talk) 01:30, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

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• ... that Saigon Hotpot was started by Vietnamese college students who paid US$0.31 each week to fund free tours for foreign tourists?

• Source: "Magnetic people show off". Saigon Times Weekly. 2007-05-05. Factiva VENEWS0020141124eabo0004h.

  The article notes: "Saigon Hotpot sounds like a restaurant, but it is not. That is a tour guide group who offers free guidance to tourists in HCM City. They all are students from various universities and have an interest in developing their foreign languages. With the slogan “Your Smile is Our Success,?the group has guided 14 groups of tourists since October. The group does not take a fee from tourists, rather, each member must contribute VND5,000 a week so that it can promote its service."

  US${{To USD|5000|VNM|year=2007}} returns US$0.31 .

• • ALT0b: ... that Saigon Hotpot was started by Vietnamese college students who paid money each week to fund free tours for foreign tourists? Source: Same as ALT0.
  • ALT1a: ... that Saigon Hotpot tour guides once paid US$0.31 each week to fund free tours for foreign tourists? Source: Same as ALT0.
  • ALT1b: ... that Saigon Hotpot tour guides once paid money each week to fund free tours for foreign tourists? Source: Same as ALT0.
  • ALT2a: ... that Saigon Hotpot's college student members once paid US$0.31 each week to fund free tours for foreign tourists? Source: Same as ALT0.
  • ALT2b: ... that Saigon Hotpot's college student members once paid money each week to fund free tours for foreign tourists? Source: Same as ALT0.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Rafael Campo

Created by Cunard (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 105 past nominations.

Cunard (talk) 10:55, 12 January 2026 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Intriguing article! Prefer ALT0b, but would be better by trimming "paid money each week to fund" to "funded". ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 18:40, 20 January 2026 (UTC) ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 18:40, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for the review! I agree with trimming the hook to make it more concise. Cunard (talk) 08:34, 21 January 2026 (UTC)

Contested deletion

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because... It passes NCORP and the GNG --Katzrockso (talk) 14:56, 12 January 2026 (UTC)