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An Dong
Cholon's other indoor market, An Dong , is very close to the intersection of ÐL Tran Phu and ÐL An Duong Vuong. This market is four storeys high and is crammed with shops. The 1st floor carries nothing but clothing, including imported designer jeans from Hong Kong, the latest pumps from Paris and ao dai . The basement is a gourmet's delight of small restaurants - a perfect place to lunch on the cheap.
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Ben Thanh Market
This market and its surrounding streets make up one of the city's liveliest areas. Everything that's commonly eaten, worn or used by the Saigonese is available here: vegetables, meats, spices, sweets, tobacco, clothing, household items, hardware and so forth. There's also a healthy selection of souvenir-worthy items.
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Binh Tay Market
Cholon's main market is Binh Tay Market, a Chinese-style architectural masterpiece with a great clock tower in the centre. Much of the business here is wholesale.
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Dan Sinh Market
Dan Sinh Market is the place to shop for a chic pair of combat boots or rusty dog tags. It's also the best market for electronics and other types of imported machinery - you could easily renovate a whole villa from the goods on sale. The front part is filled with stalls selling automobiles and motorbikes, but directly behind the pagoda building you can find reproductions of what seems to be second-hand military gear.
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Huynh Thuc Khang Street Market
The Huynh Thuc Khang Street Market sells everything. The area was known as the 'electronics black market' until early 1989, when it was legalised.
You can still buy electronic goods of all sorts - from mosquito zappers to video cassette recorders - but the market has expanded enormously to include clothing, washing detergent, lacquerware, condoms, pirated cassettes, posters of Ho Chi Minh and Britney Spears, smuggled bottles of Johnny Walker, Chinese-made 'Swiss' army knives and just about everything to satisfy your material needs.
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Old Market
Despite the name, the Old Market is not the place for antiques. Rather, the Old Market is where you can buy imported food, wine, shaving cream, shampoo etc. However, if its Vietnamese name, Cho Cu, is written or pronounced without the correct tones it means 'penis'; your cyclo driver will no doubt be much amused if you say that this is what you're looking for. Perhaps directions would be better - the Old Market is on the north side of ÐL Ham Nghi between Ð Ton That Dam and Ð Ho Tung Mau.
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