 50 gram equal to 100 can give 100 gram only 40,000 no no no no 100 gram for 100 I'll take 200 gram for 100 no no no week less week less we both take hey guys welcome to this video coming to you from the Benton market in Ho Chi Minh city in this video you're gonna get all the information about Benton right from how to reach what are the must-buys in the market what is the correct price to pay we also have some bargaining tips for you and of course what to eat and drink when you're tired of all the shopping so let's get started so I'm currently in Ho Chi Minh and this is my day one post lunch now we are going to the Benton market now Benton market is one of the largest markets in Vietnam it's an indoor market and I have read that you can practically buy anything and everything in this market right from clothes, electronics, to handicraft and so on now the Benton market is in district one of Ho Chi Minh so it's pretty easily accessible we took a cab and if you live in district one you can actually even just walk to the market so giving me company today afternoon is happy what's the plan for the shop? what do you plan to shop? clothes, clothes so we're gonna look for clothes and in fact after 7pm there's a nice market which opens just outside the indoor market and we plan to check out that as well so when you enter the market you'll see rows and rows and rows of shops stuck together there are literally thousands of shops my suggestion is to not care over wealth and don't overthink just start from one side of the market and start exploring for me this market is literally like a human museum where one could dive deep into the sounds, smell and colours of the Vietnamese culture we started at the side of the market which had all the food one side of the market just has food and that's where we are walking right now there are a lot of fresh fruits and there are also coffee shops so if you want to buy Vietnamese coffee you can come here and I can see tons and tons of snacks so this market has a lot of such narrow lanes and you can just pick any lane and keep walking what we walked into was an authentic Vietnamese coffee shop this is the scurril coffee here, Lijian wine Arabic coffee we saw not even heard the name this is what scurril coffee this is the filter basically you put the coffee here pour hot water and then it drips the decoction drips down from it if you are here you have to bargain this is how you do it please watch and learn 100gm is equal to 100 can give 100gm is only 40,000 no no no 100gm for 100 I will take 200gm for 100 100gm for 80,000 no no we will take wow she also takes 100gm for 80,000 where are you from? Belgium you make 100, we 3 take guys which the lady told us was 300 Vietnamese dong for 250gm and guess what we ended up paying just 100 Vietnamese dong for the 250gm and of course we got a free filter to grow with it next thing that you must try in Bentan are the cashiers they are of very good quality and they make for such a good gift to take back to your family I in fact picked up a bag for my mother and she was so happy with it the tip that I have for you guys to shop here is to not to come on weekends so avoid coming here on Friday, Saturday, Sunday because it will get extremely crowded try to come here on a weekday and also try to come around afternoon between 3 o'clock to 4 o'clock where it's not very crowded because I am told that in the morning daytime the place can get pretty crowded so if you want to avoid the peak time rush try and come here between 3 and 4 in the afternoon so one side of the market basically had all fruits and dried fruits and the other side of the market which is behind me has lot of stalls so here if you want to eat food then there are lot of these tiny stalls which are selling noodles spring rolls and I can also see lot of coffee shops so if you want to take a break from shopping and walking around you can come here and grab something to eat drawback of this market and yeah so here we are having some coconut water so cool asset these stalls are very very pretty and they are good if you want to pick up tea cups which are made up of porcelain if you want to pick up some croquery or if you are just looking for some funky homemade what is this? it's just a something like this made of caffel or honey yeah it's not plastic, she burnt it and she saw it she told me for 650 and I took it for 300 what did you buy? taking 3 trees ok no nice very pretty outer perimeter of the market has all the government owned shops these are fixed price shops and you can recognize them by a blue sign that will be hanging on the top now if you are shopping in the bintan market haggling and bargaining becomes a must if you totally want to avoid that you can come to the outer perimeter of the market that's where I am and these are the shops where you will see the ones with the blue sign which are fixed price shops so these are government controlled shops and all these are fixed price shops so the prices might be a little higher compared to the stores inside but you can completely avoid bargaining and haggling after wandering around the market for quite some time we finally found the clothes section this by the way is opposite to the food shops so one in the market has the food shops and the other end has the food shops and in these clothes stores you will see a lot more of the branded stuff but there are such good quality that is worth clicking on and of course we will have to bargain to bring the prices down 10,1,7 you say 2,10 I say 1,2 1,7 I take 3 piece ok I take 5 piece more discount so I am very very very long in the bargaining session we picked up some sportswear but I think we got good prices for it so guys remember to bargain the fabric stores are a must visit in Penta you get such beautiful prints and extremely high quality in the market we spend I think about 3 to 4 hours I would suggest that go there if you have sufficient time and also if you are willing to bargain because the prices are greater and you really have to work hard to bring it down so we picked up the basic clothes some fresh coffee and Aditi also picked up some home decor stuff so overall I think it is good to go with an open mind just to have fun and also to get a glimpse of the Vietnamese culture but if you want some serious shopping then I don't know I think you have to have a lot of patience to really dig through the stuff and find something which we found very interesting was the fabric market they are very good fabrics so that requires again a lot of time and you are already very very tired so we will probably come back another day and one thing which we missed buying other souvenirs so maybe night market yeah so next now is that we are going to go get some coffee because we are dead and we are cold and we will come back for the night market the night market is just outside the Brindan market so I think it makes sense to do both up at the same day and yeah I will show you the night market yeah okay so guys thank you so much for watching this video my name is Shachi I make new videos every week don't forget to hit the subscribe and the bell button so that you are notified of my next travel video and I will see you guys so guys that was the tour of the Brindan market