So if you have a space at the front of your house or own a building you can sell things in someone will do it. An example is our alley that I have mentioned before with 3 different families living from the space. Add to that the workers that work for them earning money as well.
As I go around the city there are people selling things everywhere. Here are just a few of the offerings...
This lady has all of her gear on top of her bucket, not even a chair. She is selling some small savoury thing, back up stock in the large round bucket under the tray then everything else in the bucket with the handle.
The lady above is making fairy floss, or whatever you call it where you come from (eg France Bababa). Below the lady is waking around selling it plus the popcorn bags on the bottom of her stick with pegs on it. No she isn't wearing pyjamas but it looks very much like it. I often see people walking around with what I would call pyjamas but they are matching outfits?
The 2 girls below are selling peanuts in their baskets, just having a chat on the way past. These ladies come past restaurants all the time while you are sitting eating there and ask if you want to buy them to eat...but I'm already at a restaurant eating???
The young girl below is selling lots of little things that might interest children and young people, she even had a set of clippers to do manicuring in that collection.
Everyone is constantly asked if they want to buy sunglasses, even if you are wearing prescription glasses, there are so many of these guys around.
This guy in the red shirt is selling plastic and bamboo 'birds' that fly. They have just set one off, love this photo.
Randomly you'll see people doing portraits as well, always lots of people watching them, don't know if they make much money and of course it takes ages. The models were dripping with sweat.
The icecream bikes roam around all the time, they have a particular song that is their song. A bit like Greensleeves used to be really for us when we were young with the Mr Whippy van. Anyway you can find them always in the parks.
This lady puts together a noodle dish in a plastic bag. It is really yummy too. A bit like a pad thai noodle dish but salady if that makes any sense?
The guy below is making things that I call Quesideas but they aren't and I can't remember the name. They put a rice paper sheet and fill it with a few things including a raw egg. They then cook it and fold it in half. Once again really yummy!
Below are the ingredients, the small dark things on the right at the top are quail eggs.
These are often around too. Like a hot dog on a stick and it tastes a bit like a hot dog, just it's served with chilli sauce instead of tomato sauce. Don't know how they can sit like this all the time.
This lady has her whole set up in one basket. Everything is attached including the small chair tied on.
Here is a portable restaurant, the boys are all set up on their chairs. She's preparing their meals.
A very common site, selling food and fruit, then they pick it up and move on.
This is a cigarette sellers box, you will see them set up absolutely everywhere.
Below a little bit more of a shop we'd see at home selling food.
These guys sell lots of different stuff again in the front of a house.
This guy sells hardware...reckon there's not much he wouldn't have?
Selling off the back of a trailer...looks like a shop?
You can get your tires pumped up and bike fixed right here!
Of course there are usual petrol stations as well but the strangest site yesterday was seeeing a city bus full of people pull up to fill up? Never seen that in my life before.
A florist just down the road from our alley. They usually spill out onto the streets on busy days.
A cool looking sidewalk restaurant, literally a sidewalk, love the murals.
This restaurant is set up behind a bus stop. The boys are sitting on seats eating and the lady is putting food together on the left against the wall.
Pig on a spit on the corner, restaurant on the other side of him.
A shop set up specifically for the season, this was for the Mid Autumn festival but there are Christmas ones and New Year ones.
At night a lady selling balloons.
This is in front of a house as well. They sell clothes and the lady sits in front ready to alter them before you leave. They also sell fruit?
The butchers, below, although there are places you can buy refrigerated meat as well, this is more usual though.
There are full streets of things too. Here they have the clothes street, we used to live on the fish tank street, rows and rows of fish tank shops.
This is a fabric area, shop after shop selling fabric.
There are markets like Ben Thanh Market, just down the road from our house and others like the Cho Tan Dinh Market across the road from the fabric shops
, also selling fabric.
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And then of course we have the usual shopping centres like the one below selling all of the stuff we expect but in air conditioned comfort.
There is so much more I could show you but I think you should just come and see...and go shopping!
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