With its gabled walls, tiled roof with raised ends, and numerous embellishments, it is impossible to miss the Kien An Cung (Chua Ong Quach) Confucian pagoda, the former house of the mandarin Quach. Finely carved gilded woodwork and delicate frescoes ..

Beyond the channel, on Tran Hung Dao, a stone’s throw from the dock (on Nguyen Hue Street), note the high building crowned by a spire, whose architecture evokes that of a church. This is, in fact, the covered market, where stallholders wearing the tr..