Find the "Chinatown ancient" in Hanoi

Throughout the world, "Chinatown" is never alien concept. Do you know in Hanoi Vietnam also existed  Chinatown neighborhood?

Find old traces of these "small alley, a small town" must be a lovely hint of collecting weather in Hanoi. And why in this weekend, do not you try a "tour" around the city orphanage?

Through these photos today, I let them find traces ancient Chinatown modernity hidden in Light Version!

At about the 17th century, the Chinatown most migrants are concentrated in Ta Hien street, Hang Sails. And to explore the history of ancient streets in Hanoi Hoa, maybe we should start with Ta Hien street.

Part time today famous for its souvenir products for tourists: nem chua fried potato chips, iced tea ... 266m long street (old town by a few paragraphs into one long street), formerly raw ward the land is Hekou, Tho Xuong district old.

Everyone is calling this street with familiar names as Patrick Tse, but in fact the correct name of the Ta Hien street. Ta Hien is one of the few streets still retain almost intact the original architectural.

It is still the narrow alley known as the gateway from the ancient Quang Lac, where the opera is famous Quang Lac at the time.

From the theater through lane, which is the intersection of streets Galet (Luong Ngoc Quyen) having more than ten huts are small one-story house aging and cramped. The house below Quang Lac theaters and restaurants are open to serve refreshments to the theater or going out at night. Owner mostly residential customers; they sell from lemon juice, warm tea ... to rice porridge, noodles, Van Than ... Cramped shop, cook stove right next door.

Opposite the cinema Quang Lac is a fork, a more alleys, known as Sam Lane is also the majority of vessels. They do all kinds of occupations: porters for the import and export trade in some of Hang Sail, Dao Duy Tu, made public in the stores, street vendors, roast, dumplings, sesame black tea to sell things, sweet tea, donuts ... to the city. Along the lane Sam has over a dozen of the houses, which are also small cramped.

Neighborhood retail range of existing homes was 10-piece, built from the early 20th century. The house has two floors, sloping tiled roof, the same shape. Inside is an even row houses have a similar architecture, but provide Vietnam with a traditional second floor was built over backward into the first floor adjacent to the road.

This is the old town was chosen for restoration, renovation pilot celebrate the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long - Hanoi, conducted by the cooperation between Hanoi and Toulouse (France). The entire front end area of ​​Ta Hien - Luong Ngoc Quyen intersection cut was restored, renovated old identical architecture. Project construction started on 11/11/2010 and ends on 06/30/2011.

Part time down the street, we will come to Hang Sails. Street has a length of 300m, the ancient land is located next door ward Hekou Lich river, through the Red River. Due to geographical location as so ancient residents living mainly by working capital related to water. Our products are mainly sold on the street that is the type of equipment, bags, blister, sails, mats woven rattan and rush sail. The material is transported to the city boat, and finished products are the boats that transported elsewhere.

According to the documents left behind, in the early 19th century, the presence of Chinatown trade gradually Sails Item formed in Chinatown. When the French arrived in Hanoi in 1872, the Chinatown goods overseas Sails has a large house and Pub Association. Since then, Guangdong Assembly Hall was built right on the street, this place is a childhood nursery school.

In the years varied from 1873 to 1882, the Chinatown overseas traders get rich quick and focused more and more here, where the Vietnamese gradually moved to the other cities, Daily Sail into a "city hotel" with the shops of the Chinatown wealth, prosperity.

They opened several popular restaurants and Ship Sails Every roast is a legacy that they left in Hanoi. Today, meat is a special recording of Hang Sails. The store's famous roast the Futian city (number 103), Central Register (No. 109), Dong Phu (No. 117) and especially Van Thanh (No. 108), always crowded.

Today the town has many shops selling candy, melon seeds pumpkin seeds, and all the famous dishes such as roast available, vermicelli, dummy .... Along with that is the type of alcohol beverage. The Tet Trung Thu and, where very busy.

Besides the old definition of the U.S. in the 19th century, Hang Buom was one of the few streets that change one architecture over time. The famous White Horse Temple is located at the 76 buildings are quite large, in-depth planning, starting Sail Hang Ngo Gach Street, built in the Southeast, close to Sail Every street.