219 Nguyen Trai St, Dist. 1, HCMC Lacquerware is everywhere in Vietnam, this is an interesting place to visit and buy nice lacquerware. If you ask them, the workers will bubble wrap your purchases.
Right in the middle of a gaggle of all-night restaurants, this bustling 24-hours venue offers the full range of Chinese food, from dim sum and noodle soup to seafood, including abalone. One of the best-know restaurants in town.
230 Le Thanh Ton St., Dist. 1, HCMC This was one of my favorite stores in HCMC, they sell lovely and very inexpensive clothes, linens, bibs, pillow cases, etc. all embroidered.