When did kebab and Vietnamese "bar" come to town?

Has anyone been here long enough to recall when kebab and Vietnamese food became mainstream fastfood in Poland?

I've been here a little over 10 years and I've never known a time without them. What did they have before? Milk bars I suppose....

Vietnamese food was already well established when I arrived in Warsaw in 1996. Kebab shops are newer, they first started appearing from about 2001 onwards.

Ready's have been in Poland for some time. Their menu is based on a kebab style.

Vietnamese food has been available in Wroclaw for a long time. It's not fast food though.

Kebab restaurants/takeaways seem to be quite recent. In the last ten years.

There is also the Polish version of a burger/hotdog in pita bread, topped with salad

I remember there was one (at least) kebob place in old town lublin open at least a year before the whole mad cow scare came around... not sure what year that was, but almost positive thats's pre-2000.

by Vietnamese are we talking phó, sandwiches, full plates or all of the above?

All of the above.
But I would like know where to get a good bowl of pho.

Viet Nam my friend. I have tried vietnamese places in the UK, Poland, Germany, Slovakia, even Singapore...and it never came close.

Vietnamese food is superb. I had some in Aberdeen, Scotland. Also in a classy place called Asian Kitchen in Hiroshima. There is a place here called A-Dong, rather unfortunate (a bit like Fuk Mi in Seoul), but I have to go and try it out. There is a place on the market square called Kim Lan, they dish up some quality Vietnamese fare. Pricey as hell but the options aren't exactly too crash hot.

or if you're are ever in melbourne, australia try springvale and footscray. some of it is australianised but most are still original pho...giblets, ouffal and all.

IDK about that... I've had some good pho in Little Saigon (think chinatown, but vietnamese) in LA. Hella good pho

Seanus, which market square is that?
And this A-Dong place, is it the one with huge ads along the North-South motorways (closer to the south)?

The market square of Gliwice. I don't think A-Dong has huge ads but maybe I am wrong. I've never seen them anyway.

There were two places which served kebabs in Warsaw when I arrived in 1996, but I wouldn't describe either of them as 'kebab houses'. I remember back in 2000 the late night eating scene was either those horrific pseudo-pizza things or waiting for McDonalds at the central station to open or the food bus on Emilii Plater outside the Palace of Culture.

the i went to was literally a window in a wall they sold it out of. might have been a door with the bottom half closed, i forget. not a sitdown place, at any rate.

My imjpression is that it more or less coincided with the collapse of commie rule. I don't recall seeing any Viet or kebab places before then.