Owner defiantSome of that antipathy appeared to have been renewed by the restaurant sign, with thousands of posts on Vietnamese social networking sites and newspaper comment threads.
"The owner of the restaurant has obviously been brainwashed by their [China's] government," Facebook user Chung Pham wrote, according to the AFP news agency.
The state-run Tuoi Tre newspaper described the sign as an example of "extreme nationalism".
Web users in the Philippines were also reported to be angry, but there was no word of any official reaction.
In Beijing the restaurant owner, who gave his name only as Wang, told AFP he had not been asked to remove the sign by any officials.
"This is my own conduct," he told the news agency.
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