Our next destination was Cholon district: the Chinatown of Saigon.
To get there we went clear across town & traversed the river. Located on the opposite side of the Saigon River, Cholon used to be a separate city/town, where Chinese predominantly lived. 8% of Saigon’s 6.2 million people are ethnically Chinese, making Cholon the largest concentration of Chinese in Vietnam. In 1932 it was administratively included within the city of Saigon. There is so much Chinese influence in a lot of the stores & random pagodas spread about, it was hard to tell when we entered “Chinatown”. There really isn’t any distinguishing feature that jumps out at you.

After driving around a bit, we had lunch in a corner café and made our way to the market. A huge, bustling warehouse full of small stands, packed together & bursting at the seams where hundreds of shop-keepers sold their wares, just like the Ben Thanh market.