Old Quarter Merchant Streets

Đình Kim Ngân features a distinctive gate carved with dragons that marks the entrance to this communal house. Originally built to honor the founding father of the silver-making craft, the site serves as the spiritual home for the jewelers…

The Heritage House at eighty-seven Ma May Street features a narrow, deep floor plan characteristic of the tube houses built in Hanoi’s Old Quarter. Its wooden facade sits flush with the street, hiding a series of internal courtyards that…

The Bach Ma Temple features a distinctive, curving roofline adorned with intricate ceramic dragons and mythical creatures that contrast sharply with the neighboring narrow shophouses. Constructed during the eleventh century under the reign…

The original nineteen-nineties facade of Đồng Xuân Market features five distinctive stone arches topped by triangular gables. Built by the French administration in eighteen eighty-nine, it replaced several smaller neighborhood markets to…

The street is filled with a bright, chaotic canopy of hanging lanterns, paper masks, and plastic toys. For centuries, Phố Hàng Mã served as the center for paper goods used in traditional ceremonies, like spirit money or votive paper houses…

Phố Lãn Ông is defined by the sharp, medicinal scent of dried herbs and roots drifting from the narrow wooden storefronts lining the street. While much of the Old Quarter has shifted toward tourism, this lane maintains its role as the city…

Phố Hàng Thiếc, or Tin Street, is defined by the sharp, metallic rhythm of hammers striking metal against anvils. Since the nineteenth century, this narrow lane has been the domain of tinsmiths who craft everything from ornate altars and…