Ho Thi Ky Flower Market
Overnight flower market of stacked blooms beside grills of Cambodian-influenced street food.
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This guide to Ho Thi Ky Market in Ho Chi Minh City follows two stories sharing one alley: flower traders working through the night, and the Vietnamese families who arrived here in the late 1970s after being expelled from Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge years. Those refugees, who had lost almost everything at the border, settled in this out-of-the-way swampy stretch and cooked the only thing they still owned: their recipes.
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