Thai Binh Market

Renamed three times from the era of the Nguyen lords to peacetime, in the heart of the Bui Vien quarter

Located on Cong Quynh Street, Ben Thanh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City. According to the website Sai Gon Thap Cam, the market began as a spontaneous squat-down market serving soldiers in the time of the Nguyen lords. Linked to the figure of Truong Phuoc Vinh, it was called the "Dieu Khien Market" and stood on Nam Quoc Cang Street, in the area of Pham Ngu Lao Ward, now part of Ben Thanh Ward. When the French took Saigon, the area was refurbished and the Blancsube store opened nearby, so people began calling it the "Lang Xi Ben Market" after that trading house. After the French merged Saigon and Cho Lon into 25 cantons in 1930, the market stood on the land of Thai Binh Village and gradually took the name "Thai Binh Market" after the village. Today it is one of the few ordinary neighbourhood markets left right in the centre of District 1, next to the Pham Ngu Lao - Bui Vien tourist quarter.

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