There are cheap 7-Eleven China copies outside of China.
You can find them in almost every country in the world, including Vietnam.
In Vietnam, everything successful is being copied anyway.
e.g. the Easy Rider Motorcycle Club for tourist rides in Dalat
Supposedly, all of the easy rider clubs are fake.
Even the Peace Cafe next door has two copies in the same street.
The most blatant forgery wave can be found in the old quarter in Hanoi:
The tour operator Sinh Cafe
in blue or red
or with a Halong bay picture
and sometimes 2 of them side by side.
Sinh Cafes Open Tours concept is so successful, there are more than 50 copies.
The original Sinh Cafe therefore had to rename to Sinh Tourist:
Open Tours in Vietnam are extremely popular. You buy one bus ticket from Hanoi to Saigon or vice versa, deciding how many stops you want to do on the way. Then you can travel on your own pace.
Because of OpenTours, the vast majority of tourists in Vietnam are distributed to the few stops on the 1700km North-South axis:
- Hanoi (capital city)
- Hue (old capital)
- Hoian (Chinese port village)
- Nha Trang (beach resort)
- Dalat (mountains)
- Muine (beach resort)
- Saigon (city)
A Banana Pancake Trail par excellence (-;
Hanoi, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi, Vietnam 
I found this funny as well as little angering when I visited Hanoi. I photographed as many fake Sinh Cafes as I could when walking around, but you’ve done a better job!
It’s a shame when it impacts on the local businesses. I saw a couple of hotels with signs asking passersby not to frequent places that had stolen their name and hard-earned reputation.
I still didn’t catch all Sinh Cafes in Hanoi. The Sinh Cafe scam is simply ridiculous, but it’s such a common thing in Vietnam.
We talked to the woman who build up the Peace Hotel in Dalat. She was driven out by her landlady, who just took over her business, with the name, reputation and lonely planet ranking.
She’s now the owner of the “Peace Restaurant” a little bit further up the road. There’s good food and a nice atmosphere, if you ever visit Dalat.