Bustling Vinh Phong floating market

Located peacefully beside the poetic Chac Bang River, Vinh Phong floating market (formerly Vinh Thuan floating market) is bustling with boats every day. The scene on the wharf and under the boats, merchants continuously transport vegetables, tubers, and fruits to consume throughout the countryside.

Buying and selling and trading right on the river is a unique cultural feature still maintained at Vinh Phong floating market.

A merchant, after finishing his goods, left the dock to sell retail goods throughout the canals and streams of the Miet Thu region.

People gather goods at stalls to deliver to customers.

Vinh Phong floating market today is also a famous wholesale market for vegetables and fruits for customers in the Western provinces.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Mai - a trader with 40 years of experience in trading at Vinh Phong floating market said that in the past, this place had a dense network of canals and rivers, and roads were limited. Boats and boats of people from all over followed the Chac Bang canal down to Vinh Phong, gathering to form a floating market to do business and trade. Nowadays, transportation is more convenient, goods are mainly transported by truck, but the floating market still maintains trading on the river.

Instead of transporting goods by large junks like before, people now mostly use composite hulls. However, the floating market is still bustling from around 4am; the "bun hon..." cry of the woman selling bun canoes still rings out in the middle of the night and the culture of sharing: "There are still some ha fruits, I will give them to you" of the "barefoot" farmer carrying pineapples from the canal to sell at this market is still the liberal cultural identity of the people of the West, even though time has faded...

Performed by THUY TIEN

Source: https://baoangiang.com.vn/nhon-nhip-cho-noi-vinh-phong-a463259.html