Can Gio Seafood Market

Ho Chi Minh City's seafood basket right at the coastal river mouth

The market stretches along Can Thanh town and Duyen Hai Road in Can Gio Commune, Ho Chi Minh City. According to VnExpress, one of the most notable seafood landing points is Dong Hoa Port in the south of Can Gio, at its busiest in the morning when the boats come in. Seafood is sold straight at the landing, and some stalls will cook it simply on the spot. Thanks to its position at a coastal river mouth, this is a major seafood basket for Ho Chi Minh City: shrimp, crab, swimming crab, sea snails and marine fish, most of them caught the same day or farmed locally. The area is also tied to the Can Gio Mangrove Forest, a world biosphere reserve recognised by UNESCO, which creates a rich ecological environment for the natural seafood stocks.

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