Shop the market the city has cooked from since the 19th century

Go early, before the heat

Free

A stallholder weighs dried goods below a ceiling packed with conical hats and hanging snack packets — Chainwit · CC BY 4.0

A vendor in a conical hat and striped shirt carries a flat basket of red shallots and garlic — Alice Young youngalicesalvatore · CC0

Bunches of small yellow bananas and ripe mangoes piled on newspaper over a crate — Alice Young youngalicesalvatore · CC0

A confectionery stall stacked to the ceiling with packets and jars under painted Vietnamese signboards — Chainwit · CC BY 4.0

A large red 125 anniversary display banked with artificial pink lotus flowers at a market entrance — Chainwit · CC BY 4.0

The food floor rather than the souvenir aisles: this is where the mam ruoc, chilli and dried shrimp that define Hue cooking are actually bought.

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