Clothes and shoes
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cleaning a pair · checked
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.