Ho Chi Minh City Shopping Tips by stedeb

Name of Shop: Stores & Markets

This market sells everyhting from up to the minute phones to clothes and sounvenirs. We did a lot of shopping here buying draw string pants long and short for $US5 a pair also Filo & Nike women's sports tops for th e
same price.
All kinds of souvenirs are available here t-shirts $US2 and that is before you haggle at those prices I felt too embarressed to haggle.

What To Buy: There are beautiful chop stick boxes a steal at approx $US5 each some are plainn others have been hand carved.
If you are after fabric this is the place to go we watched women buying fabrics for special occasions maybe wedding gowns??? in the most beautiful fabrics and colours.
The first time we went we took a taxi but walked back to the hotel ourselves. Seems to be much easier to find your way from than to!!!!
Apart from the souvenir stuff there are some good bargains to be had in men's shirts clothes in general and shoes there were many westerners buying up big on shoes. I am sure if we had not had to carry a backpack into Cambodia we would of bought a lot more. The stall holders will deal in either US$ or VN Dong.
Away from the markets there are plenty of music stores that sell pirate dvd's(20,000VND) or cd's(10,000VND) they are all good quality. There are also loads of kids selling photo copies of books lots of Lonely Planet, history books from the war we paid between $US2-3 per book. There are also loads of sunglasses to be had either from stalls or from street vendors who walk around selling them my treat were Ray Ban $US3. There is so much to buy you will be spoilt for choice. So far none of my t-shirts have fallen apart and all my dvd's & cd's are in perfect working order.


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