Where Ho Chi Minh City shops, snacks and lunches: the markets worth your morning.
Food markets, farmers markets and covered halls: where Ho Chi Minh City shops, snacks and lunches.
Ben Thanh is Saigon's landmark market, a 1914 hall of produce, dry goods and a busy food court by day that spills into an open-air night market.
Go forStreet food, Snacks, Souvenirs
TipPrices are marked up for tourists; the food-court stalls at the back are the real reason to come.
Binh Tay is the grand market at the heart of Cho Lon, a 1920s Chinese-built hall of wholesale goods ringed with food stalls serving Teochew classics.
Go forCho Lon food, Wholesale, Snacks
TipThe wet market outside runs earliest; come at dawn to watch Chinatown do its shopping.
Ben Thanh Street Food Market is a covered food hall a block from Ben Thanh, gathering stalls of Vietnamese and Asian street dishes around shared tables.
Go forStreet food, Seafood, Regional dishes
TipIt is more polished and pricier than the street, but a comfortable air-conditioned sampler.
Ho Thi Ky is Saigon's best-loved night food street, a maze of alleys behind the flower market crammed with stalls of banh trang, snails, grilled skewers.
Go forNight food, Snacks, Regional dishes
TipCome hungry after dark and graze from stall to stall; it is busiest and best from 19:00.
An Dong is one of Saigon's oldest and largest indoor markets, a wholesale fashion hall in District 5 whose basement food court draws locals for Cho Lon eats.
Go forCho Lon food, Wholesale, Snacks
TipSkip the upstairs clothing floors and head straight to the basement food stalls.
Cho Cu, the Old Market, is a one-block street market on Ton That Dam in the shadow of downtown towers, a fast-vanishing pocket of old Saigon selling produce.
Go forOld Saigon, Produce, Snacks
TipIt is steadily being demolished for development; go soon to see this slice of old downtown.
Vinh Khanh is District 4's official food street, a kilometre of seafood and snail joints where locals crowd pavement tables at night for oc and grills.
Go forSeafood, Snails, Night food
TipIt comes alive after dark; go with a group and order many small snail plates to share.
Tan Dinh Market, trading since 1926 by the pink Tan Dinh Church, is a local produce and fabric market whose surrounding stalls serve fine street food.
Go forProduce, Street food, Fabric
TipSkip the fabric floors and graze the food stalls around the market's edges in the morning.
Thai Binh Market sits on the edge of the backpacker district, a workaday produce market whose corner stalls turn out cheap noodle salads, che and snacks.
Go forStreet food, Produce, Snacks
TipIt is a two-minute walk from Bui Vien; the food stalls at the entrances are the reason to stop.
Ba Chieu is one of Binh Thanh's oldest markets, a sprawling local hall best known among eaters for the dense ring of street-food stalls that surround it.
Go forStreet food, Produce, Snacks
TipThe food is around the outside, not inside; the night market from 18:00 is the liveliest time.
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