Xom Cui Market

The name preserves the memory of a small hamlet that ferried firewood by boat to sell to the people of Cho Lon

Located on Tung Thien Vuong Street, Phu Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City. According to the newspaper Phap Luat TP.HCM, the name "Xom Cui" (Firewood Hamlet) comes from a small hamlet that specialised in selling firewood for cooking. People brought the firewood by sampan or boat from the surrounding areas and gathered it at one landing to sell to the residents of Cho Lon, a practice that reflects the waterborne trading culture typical of southern Vietnam. Today the market remains one of the oldest neighbourhood markets in the former District 8, a place where the rhythm of life along the canals has been kept alive through many generations of small traders.

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