Showing posts with label Cholon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cholon. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Binh Tay Market in District 5 (Cholon)




My favorite market in Saigon.  Head to Chinatown to experience Binh Tay.  Simultaneously vibrant, stifling, unaccommodating, and overwhelming, this complex is not for the faint-hearted.






Can you name at least five items that are captured in these photographs?  Leave a comment and take the challenge. 

Friday, February 17, 2012

Chinatown Revisited: A March Through District 5

With a notable pack of local lights, we ambled out on a muggy, overcast day in early February to wander the streets of Cholon...

























A partially consumed, discarded cake. Encountered on a street corner.








Lunch @ My Thuc Tai Tai - 706 Nguyen Trai, District 5, HCMC.

Fried Rice with Duck

Fried rice with Chicken and Pork

Fried Eggplant with Chili and Black Beans