Medicine, Fabric and Old Trades

Shops of roots, herbs and remedies named after the master physician Hai Thuong Lan Ong.

The wholesale medicine street, fragrant with dried herbs stacked to the ceiling.

Fabric traders serving tailors and garment makers across the city.

Tinsmiths hammering pots, trays and kitchen ware from sheet metal.

Copper and bronze sellers, from incense burners to kitchen pots.

The pipe sellers' street, once supplying every kind of tobacco pipe and accessory.

Bamboo weavers whose street now mixes craft shops with fashion and food.

The old poultry street, today a local shopping and food street.

Bamboo and rattan craft sellers keeping a light, patient trade alive.

Once makers of lacquered bamboo buckets, now mixed local trade.

The bowl and dish street, today also groceries and household goods.

Hat sellers of every shape, from conical palm hats to modern caps.

Rattan weavers and sellers of baskets, lamps and furniture.

The charcoal street that became known for banh com green rice cakes.