Shop at the Floating Market Vietnam

“Whilst larger boats invited visitors to board them for breakfast, we stayed in our little wooden craft to slurp up our steaming hot Hu Tieu. Our driver cleverly whipped out the back rest from our seat to make a table for us! The Other Half and I partook in a bowl of pork noodle soup. Hu Tieu. The lady dished it out into china bowls. Yes, real china! Our skipper passed them over to us, sensing that our unsteady land legs in our small boat would probably have meant we would end up feeding the fish rather than ourselves. Not a drop was spilt as our breakfast was passed to us!”

“A dense amount of boats loomed before us as we neared the main mass of the market. Colourful boats of different sizes clustered together. Steam from the restaurant boats combined with smoke from the engines created a misty haze. Shouts between sellers and buyers, running motors, and lapping waves all collided into a hubbub of sound. We were right in the thick of the bustle.”

“The fruit and vegetable sellers will be going about their business as a hundred boats crammed with tourists circle slowly, watching the sellers’ every move. For their part, the sellers seem to not understand why they elicit such stares from the tourists. And while most tourists buy coffee and pho from small boats set up to service the tourists, the fruit and vegetable sellers never receive a dime for their popularity. It made me just a bit uncomfortable.”