A central Vietnamese specialty market, where the flavours of home from Quang Nam sit in the middle of Saigon
Ba Hoa Market is on Tran Mai Ninh Street, Bay Hien Ward, in the former Tan Binh District of Ho Chi Minh City. It was built by Mrs Nguyen Thi Hoa around the end of the 1960s and was originally named "Linh Hoa Market", with a U-shaped row of shophouses wrapping around the market hall inside. Before 1975 the Bay Hien area was a well-known weaving village, where a community from Quang Nam (Duy Xuyen, Dien Ban) settled to work in weaving during the fierce war years in central Vietnam (according to Tuoi Tre newspaper). As weaving gradually faded, many families turned to selling the specialties of their homeland, turning Ba Hoa Market into a hub for the signature dishes of Quang Nam, Da Nang and Quang Ngai: mi Quang noodles, banh beo rice cakes, rice paper, mam nem fish sauce and baby clam salad.
English text: machine translation from the Localis platform — proper names kept in Vietnamese.Good to know
Best time to visitQuanh nam
Services
- Try mi Quang, banh beo and hen tron
- Buy rice paper and Quang-style mam nem
- Have dinner at the night food market
- Buy specialties from Quang Nam, Da Nang and Quang Ngai
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