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The city's evening centre of gravity. Grilled rice paper, hot soy milk, snails and skewers, plus sweaters at 150–350k because Da Lat is the one place in Vietnam you actually need one.

Built in 1929, about a thousand businesses across several floors. Artichoke tea, strawberry jam, dried persimmon, arabica beans, macadamia, wool.

The main hypermarket and the only realistic one-stop for imported food. Cards accepted, about 57 tenants in the building.

The trusted fixed-price chain for tea, jam, dried fruit, nuts, honey, coffee and wine. If haggling is not your sport, buy your gifts here instead of the market.

Flowers are sold right on the roundabout in front of the central market entrance — the closest row to the centre, where people go for a bouquet without stepping into a shop.

A shop in the Dreams Mart and Condotel building, the place to go for what the local markets do not carry: cheese and cured meat, frozen roti flatbreads, grains and spices, rocket and other salad greens. A normal Da Lat grocery run does not cover that list — the supermarkets here are for rice, noodles and vegetables, while cheese and salad leaves have to be hunted down separately.

A workshop and a shop in one. They clean trainers, shoes and bags: we have taken pairs here several times and they come back looking new — washed, stains gone, no grey film on the sole. At 60–80,000₫ it is the best money you can spend on footwear in town; in Europe the same cleaning costs as much as a new pair. Da Lat needs it more than it sounds: it rains for half the year, the mountain tracks are clay, and white trainers stop being white within a week. The other half of the business is retail: they sell trainers and clothes made for export to Europe, at Vietnamese prices. The clothing has a separate room on the first floor, and you cannot tell from below — from the street it looks like nothing but a shoe workshop.

A Korean grocery on Bui Thi Xuan: whole rows of ramyeon and noodles, sauces, kimchi, snacks, frozen goods, fresh herbs and vegetables. The range is closer to a supermarket than to a shop with two shelves of Asian products, and the sign advertises goods from a hundred brands. The other half of the shop is alcohol: a separate wine cellar with lit cabinets, spirits — whisky, soju, liqueurs — and beer. They work until midnight.

A flower shop by the entrance to the central market: buckets of cut flowers — roses, chrysanthemums, callas — and flowers in pots.

The shop of a Da Lat project called Thời Thanh Xuân, where the essential oils and the soap are made by deaf craftspeople: the name hangs above the shelves and under it the same letters spelled out in fingerspelling. Brick wall, shelves floor to ceiling, dropper bottles, sprays, candles and gift sets in kraft paper — all made by the project from local raw materials. By the counter stands a tray of mortars, test tubes and pipettes: the oils are there to be smelled and blended, not only sold in a box. Beyond the ready-made bottles they run workshops.

A home textile shop on Pham Ngu Lao, 650 metres from the central market. People come for the quality of the linen: the site's owner bought here himself and says the sets are of hotel standard rather than market standard. What they sell: - bed linen - pillows and duvets - towels

A tobacco kiosk in Khu Hoa Binh, 270 metres from the Da Lat market: a pack of Chapman costs 55,000 ₫, a price we checked on 5 September 2026.