Comparing to other Chinatowns, I would say this one is just a poor version. Quiet nice temples in the area but think Vietnam has more to offer. Not worth the time to get here. If you imagine this to be like a Chinatown in Singapore, San Francisco then you are in for a disappointment.Far from the city center and the... More

filthy, expensive, hot clammy misery. People drive like hell in Vietnam but Chinatown is particularly wreckless and dangerous. Food here can injure you (someone from Boston got a chipped tooth from a rock in the sandwich) i can't see why anyone would go here. It's a terrible hell hole More

I loved the energy of the main market. This market is for locals and they don't care if the tourist are there or not. It is massive quantities of food, housewares, shoes, and whatever a person needs to live. The spacing between shops is slim and people are just zipping along carrying things, wrapping boxes and just talking. So disinterested... More

Chinese would always be businessmen wherever they go. This is where people go to get really cheap wholesale goods. If you are a tourist, you'll need to know how to speak Vietnamese or Cantonese to be able to buy anything here. More

Not everyone's cup of tea. It's noisy, it's crowded, it can be smelly at times... but, it's a facet of life in Saigon for Chinese immigrants. If you want to experience the real life in Saigon, it worth a half day trip. Getting there is not too hard, taxi or motobike, depends on your level of risk tolerance. Binh Tay... More

the market is clean, not smelly but has great atmosphere with the hundreds of stalls & people More

Very poor and durty. There is no good food market or restaurants. More

Cholon has little to offer that you can't get elsewhere in Ho Chi Minh City but trying to negotiate your way through the traffic is more of a nightmare than in the central Saigon District. There are a quite a few pagodas originally built by the Chinese community that offer a slight haven from the chaos but none of them... More

Not much chinese culture, just mainly a massive market that was very very busy. It was tightly packed and mainly a wholesale market, meaning if your not interested in buying 100 of something, they're not really interested in selling. We stayed about an hour which was more than enough. The closest thing to chinese was a lantern store... run by... More