Location. Justimagine that you are roaming around this food market, you may find yourvisit to this city to be added with new colors. Around 100 kilometersnorth of Truong Tien Bridge, Dong Ba Market is situated near theeastern corner of the Citadel, in the north bank of the romanticPerfume River, near the place where the Dong Ba Canal merges with the Perfume River.

Dong Ba - the largest market in Thua Thien-Hue. Youare eager for purchasing craft products as Hue’s gifts for yourdearests and fearest? Well, Dong Ba market is the right place to spendyour precious time in this city. Not only being a largest-sized marketin the past, Dong Ba market retains its role till now. It has alwaysbeen providing "stage" for the traditional crafts in Hue, and sells toall those who are fond of; examples are Phu Cam conical hats, HienLuong scissors, bronze articles of the Duc guild, Phuoc Tich pottery,Bao La rattan and bamboo products, Ke Mon jewelry, Nam Thuan sweets,Tuan tea, Huong Can mandarins, Luong Quan-Nguyet Bieu pomelos, and TinhTarn lotus.

Besides,for those who are interested in Southeast Asian food, the marketsupplies a lot during daytime, such as clam rice, beef noodles, shrimpcakes, pancakes, bean puddings, sour shrimps, and My Lai shredded leanmeat, which are popular Hue’s daily dishes. If you stay here on theoccasion of the Lunar New Year, you can share the custom of the localsby buying "five-color" cakes, which are small & square cakes madeof bean and rice powder. The name “five-color” derives from the cakes’5 colors of wrapping papers. When biting the cake, you can feel that itseems to immediately melt in the mouth, which is of uniqueness of Hue’sspecialty. Hence, it’s advised that you try these as much as possibleduring your time in Hue, or else you will miss them so much aftercoming back to your country!

Cultural values. Today, peoplevisit Dong Ba Market not only because they can buy myriad goods andlocal specialties, but because in their hearts it is a symbol of Hue'sculture. What was the most delicate material cultural traits of thecity can be found here in the local traditional products, like Phu Camconical hat, Hien Luong scissors, etc., and the mentioned deliciousspecialties, such as mussel rice, rice noodle with beef, leaf cake, shrimp springroll, khoai cake, dau van pudding, etc. that people could not help tasting!

Thougha series of new market have emerged ubiquitiously inside thefast-growing Hue City, and one no longer has to go far for shopping,Dong Ba remains the biggest and most significant market in both Hue andCentral Vietnam. Tourists coming here may not be able to get out soonsince they are so much absorbed by the interesting Hue’s typical goods!