2 Jul 2026
Day 15
Cholon, Chinatown Saigon
Ho Chi Minh city is is the capital city for motorcycles. The noise and air pollution is really bad. The city is overpopulated not only with people by motorcycle. Hardly you see any locals walk, they just move on the bicycles.
Strangely it's hard to see any accidents or people dont get angry and quarrel over right of way like in other countries. It's really look chaotic and messy, but the traffic move seamlessly.
This place is like our Chinatown streets in the 60's. Notably is the numbers of temples around every street with distinctive Chinese characters.
There's a Hainanese Temple. I spoke in Hainanese with the temple caretaker.
One temple I heard hokkien dialect spoken.
There are many specialty streets doing different trade.
Herbal and medicine streets
Lanterns streets
There are very hugh market, Binh Tay market that act like wholesalers.
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