If you are a seasoned shopaholic, with dozens of megacities and hundreds of shopping malls under your belt, and it seems to you that going to a market is boring, banal, and uninteresting, then visiting an Asian market will be like a breath of fresh air for you.
Pay a visit to Ben Thanh Market in Ho Chi Minh City, which by day looks like a noisy trading площадка, and at night turns into an entertainment center. This place is worth visiting, because it embodies the idea of dynamically developing Ho Chi Minh City. Perhaps this is the city's most recognizable attraction, since the image of Ben Thanh was even printed on local banknotes.
The history of the market dates back to 1870, when the French built shopping rows and called them “Les Halles Centrales”. Later, in 1912, the market was renamed in the Vietnamese manner to “Ben Thanh”. Today, it is the oldest functioning market in Ho Chi Minh City, so besides shopping, you can also take a small excursion into history.
So what can you buy here? Ben Thanh's main specialization is traditional Vietnamese food, and there is really a lot of it here. Don't miss the chance and be sure to try the local coffee with exotic sweets.
In addition, there is a huge variety of clothes, accessories, bags, jewelry, and costume jewelry here. And we also suspect that you will definitely want to take some authentic souvenir from here as a keepsake ;)
