Cholon Big Market: Saigon's bustling center of daily life
The Cholon market in Saigon is described as a vast, chaotic yet essential hub for Chinese and Vietnamese shoppers. Vendors offer meat, vegetables, fruit, and diverse services from herbal doctors to fortune tellers, with a lively tangle of alleys under an old clock tower. Pigs are slaughtered on site, tails saved for waiting buyers, and refrigeration is absent.