A special flea market in the middle of Hanoi

Thứ Tư, 16/08/2017, 20:04

PSNews - A flea market located in lane 456, Hoang Hoa Tham street is a very special old-fashioned space. It opens every Saturday for antique lovers.

This flea market used to be a famous place in Hanoi called Lu Tra Quan, where members of the Hanoi Calligraphy Club met up at weekends.

In an only 400 square meter space, people could feel an atmosphere of the old days of the subsidized economy as they see many popular things typical to the old times, such as oil lamps, clocks, copper trays, Soviet-style pots and old-fashioned bikes.

The flea market is a place for people not only to sell and buy things, but also to barter antiques.

The market mainly sells all kinds of antiques ranging from bowls, flowerpots, telephones, irons and eyeglasses to Vietnam’s old notes and coins and old books.

Things for sales at the market have different origins and date from different times. Some may be several hundred years old.

Coins for sale at the flea market dated from different ages. However, most sellers do not classify the coins' types, but sell them by weight.

There are also war memorials sold at some booths of the market. Visitors can find old water metal cans, military belts or special walkie-talkies used in the resistance wars. The salesman said, it has taken a lot of his time and energy to find and persuade veterans from all over Vietnam to sell their memorial items.

Many people have come here to find memorial items that relate to a period of national history that they experienced.

The flea market attracts not only domestic antique lovers, but also foreign tourists.

By An Nhien