http://newenglandfolklore.blogspot.com/2011/01/parker-house-boston-cream-pie-ho-chi.html
https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-09-18/little-known-story-vietnamese-communist-leader-ho-chi-minh-s-admiration-us
“As a cook there, Ho Chi Minh — the future leader of one of the most violent communist insurgencies the world would ever see — may well have made some of the hotel’s signature dishes, such as the Boston cream pie and the Parker House roll, both of which were invented there. Ho Chi Minh wrote a postcard to a friend in France, mentioning his job there.”
Ho Chi Minh has a surprisingly colorful backstory. Well-educated, well-traveled, and skilled. It is just so ironic that someone who worked as a dish washer and pastry chef in an American hotel would go on to become an influential world leader who won wars and opposed America. It is silly and fascinating, but I don’t see the dude in a positive light given how brutal the Vietnam war was and how corrupt the communist government was. Also because the Vietnamese government is still corrupt as shit.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2152150/dont-give-our-land-away-clash-interests-vietnams-anti
In recent years it has come to light that Vietnamese politicians have been selling out to China and giving away land to them. There are anti-Chinese protests and Vietnamese patriotism movements over this now. My grandpa tells me that the politicians have always been corrupt and they let the country fall apart by pocketing money that is supposed to be used for infrastructure.