The Old House of Phung Hung
Two-century-old merchant house blending Vietnamese, Chinese and Japanese design, with a flood hatch and pillar still marked by the water.
The Old House of Phung Hung guide starts at a wooden pillar behind its shopfront, scored with flood lines from the river that made Hoi An rich and threatened it in equal measure. Built around 1780 by a merchant trading cinnamon, pepper, silk and porcelain, the house blends Japanese roofwork, Chinese carving and Vietnamese framing under one roof, still home to his descendants eight generations later. It follows the square hatch cut into the ceiling, used for generations to haul goods upstairs whenever the river rose. Stand at that pillar and see how far above your head the marks climb.
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