Ba Chieu Market

Rooted in the 19th-century Xom Market, famous for its food quarter and secondhand goods

Ba Chieu Market lies at the junction of Phan Dang Luu, Le Quang Dinh and Bach Dang streets, Gia Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City. Its origins go back to the 19th century, when it was first called Xom Market in the Gia Dinh era; Mr Tran Van Choi had a permanent structure built in 1942 on an area of about 8,465 m², and it went through one renovation in 1987. Scholars have not agreed on the origin of the name "Ba Chieu": the scholar Truong Vinh Ky held that it was the name of one of the five wives of Commander Thang, each of whom was put in charge of one of five markets; the writer Son Nam argued that "Chieu" means a natural pond and is linked to a goddess worshipped there; while the scholar Vuong Hong Sen suggested the market took the name of the first person to trade here, in the same way the Ba Hoa Market was named. Today the market is famous for its street food quarter (durian sticky rice, fried offal stew, fermented fish noodle soup) and its cheap secondhand section.

English text: machine translation from the Localis platform — proper names kept in Vietnamese.