Phu Nhuan Market

Formerly known as Xa Tai Market, after the village chief Le Tu Tai who founded it in the second half of the 19th century

Located at 123 Phan Dinh Phung Street, Phu Nhuan Ward, Ho Chi Minh City. According to local records (the tenduong.vn pages on historical figures), the market was founded near Kieu Bridge around the second half of the 19th century by Mr Le Tu Tai, a village chief of Phu Nhuan Village in the former province of Gia Dinh who was known as "Xa Tai", so that local people would have a place to trade and earn a living. The market originally bore his name, "Xa Tai Market", until after 1975, when it was rebuilt and renamed Phu Nhuan Market. Le Tu Tai also rallied local people to contribute to the building of the Phu Nhuan communal house, dedicated to the tutelary deity of the locality, a structure that still stands today on Mai Van Ngoc Street. Today, Phu Nhuan Market is one of the long-established markets of the former Gia Dinh area, well known for the street-food scene around it, with dishes such as bun rieu crab noodle soup, banh xeo sizzling pancakes and traditional Saigon che sweet soups.

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