Binh Tay wholesale market in HCMC’s Chinatown was inbuilt 1928 by a rice dealer from China.
The 25,000-square-meter market is characterised by its bagua form, a Chinese language non secular motif that includes eight trigrams together with the sky, fireplace and wind which are organized in a circle symbolizing yin and yang.
In 2016 the market was closed for main restoration work that lasted over two years, and reopened in November 2018.
It primarily sells marriage ceremony objects, materials, aluminum merchandise, cutlery, jewellery, plastic baggage, canned items, fruit jams, and Chinese language choices.
It too has avenue meals stalls that serve with conventional dishes resembling porridge, bamboo shoots, duck with conventional medication, vermicelli, and damaged rice.
Picture by Quynh Tran