The Vietnamese people in Senegal (French: Le peuple vietnamien au Sénégal) consists of both expatriate technicians and labourers from Vietnam, as well as the mixed-race descendants of early 20th-century migrants.
A total of several hundred are estimated to live in Senegal; the national capital Dakar even boasts a few Vietnamese restaurants.
They aim to promote small-scale technologies and techniques suitable to Senegal's level of economic development; for example, Vietnamese beekeepers introduced Senegalese farmers to manually driven centrifugal honey extractors and Vietnamese-style concrete beehives.
[5] Nem rán is still commonly sold as a snack food in Dakar by street vendors, many of whom have no Vietnamese background.
[2] Most of the technicians speak only Vietnamese, though they typically learn some Wolof language agricultural vocabulary during their time in the country.