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Chợ Đầm in the centre, dried seafood at Chợ Xóm Mới, and the night-market street behind 46 Trần Phú.
Chợ Đầm
Chợ Đầm stands at Bến Chợ, Vạn Thạnh. The hall is likened to a lotus, 66.5 m across and 5,270 m², able to hold more than 3,000 people. The site was a 7 ha lagoon, and the market was built up in 1908. Entry is free. Seafood is on one side. Bún cá, bún chả cá, and nem are on the other, with bánh tráng, muối ớt xanh, and mắm. It is busy every day.
Chợ Xóm Mới
Chợ Xóm Mới is at 49 Ngô Gia Tự, built from the 1960s. Traders are given as more than 1,500, and seafood traders as more than 1,000. Entry is free. The dried counter sells mực một nắng, mực rim, cá khô, and cua rang muối. Fresh seafood is tôm, mực, cua, cá, ngao, sò, ốc, and hến. The bowls are bánh canh chả cá, bánh xèo, bún sứa, nem nướng, bún chả cá, bún cá, and bún canh.
Trần Phú night market
The walking street behind 46 Trần Phú is 137 m, in Lộc Thọ, and free to enter. It holds 50 stalls, 16 of them food: bún chả, chả cá, bánh căn, fried squid, breaded shrimp, ice cream, and chè.
Harbour Market
Harbour Market is the indoor market at Vinpearl Harbour, with more than 200 stalls of street food, local specialties, dried goods, and crafts.