Buy and tips for shopping in Saigon Vietnam

With foreign visitors first arrive in the city of Saigon Vietnam are confused do not know where to go and what to buy when to Vietnam. Below is a great thing to buy in Saigon.

Great things to buy in Saigon:

+ Ladies have a traditional Vietnamese Dress Ao Dai and other clothing tailor made

+ Vietnam is renowned for stunning quality lacqureware pictures, bowls, plates & drink coaster plus many other items that have both decorative and practical uses.

+ Vietnamese Art, Saigon Ho Chi Minh City is has many great traditional and modern art shops, from carvings, and rattan thru to stunning paintings.

+ Vietnam’s coffee is some of the best in the world, renowned for its unique flavor and richness, it’s no wonder the global coffee giant Nestlé reportedly buys a third of the country’s entire coffee export. When purchasing your coffee also get yourself a coffee grinder and a Stainless Steel coffee filter.

+ Shoes and Handbags, All women love their shoes and hand bags and Vietnamese women are no different, so you will find an enormous range and variety of shoes and handbags, from reasonable quality brand name rip offs thru to original Vietnamese designed masterpieces.

+ Men have a casual or business suite made; Vietnams tailors are some of the most skilled in the world and importantly cheap.

+ You can get some very cheap yet practice tourist items, nearly every trip I do to Vietnam I always buy a dozen or so fold up wooden business card holders, they are cheap and compact, friends and business acquaintances love them.  

Tips for shopping and bargaining in Vietnam

+ If the item does not have a price tag, the price is nearly always negotiable.

+ When negotiating a price, knock at least three quarters off the top.

+ If negotiations are getting you nowhere start to walk, you will be amazed by the number of sellers that will agree on your price while you are walking away.

+ Vietnam has recently changed from paper to polymer (plastic) bank notes, and some of the notes look very similar because of their color, for example the 20,000 Dong note looks very similar to the 200,000 dong note and the same goes for the  50,000 and 500,000 dong notes. So It always pays to double check before handing over any money and also when receiving change.