Saigon corner
Dear brothers and sisters,
Ông Tạ – Mr. Tạ is the name of a person (thầy thuốc nam), a market (chợ Ông Tạ), a T-intersection (ngã ba Ông Tạ – junction Cách Mạng Tháng Tám and Phạm Văn Hai today) and the whole large area around chợ Ông Tạ (chợ Phạm Văn Hai today), in Saigon.
The strange and rare thing is that the geographic name Ông Tạ was used while Ông Tạ was still living. And the name was given by the local people, not by the government.
Ông Tạ is the nickname of Mr Trần Văn Bỉ, an herbal medicine man, who often provided healing services to the poor. Continue reading Ông Tạ




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