One of Toronto's hottest new hubs for Vietnamese cuisine just so happens to be a shipping container located in a back alley. "We wanted to share the culture with the streets of Toronto, and what better way to experience culture than with food, thus the planning for Com Nuoc started." The dream wasn't necessarily to operate Com Nuoc out of a shipping container, though, but when searching for the right brick-and-mortar space, nothing really grabbed Thanh's attention. "We wanted something unique and not just a strip mall plaza kinda restaurant," Thanh says. Com Nuoc, Thanh says, directly translates to "rice water" but is used to mean "having a meal" in Vietnamese, which, he says, pretty much sums up what he is trying to achieve through the eatery.