Off the Beaten Path
Cholon (Chinatown) Neighborhood Immersion
District 5's Chinatown is where Saigon's Teochew Chinese community has been for centuries, and it still operates as a real neighborhood. Chinese temples with daily worshippers, herbalists with walls of jars, dim sum restaurants serving the community from 7am. Less touched by tourism than most of the city, and worth two to three hours of unhurried walking.