Situated conveniently at 135 Nguyen Hue Avenue, district 1 - on the corner of Le Loi street and Nguyen Hue Avenue - Tax Trade Center is becoming an attractive destination for foreign customers. Furthermore, this is a major commercial mall of the city and has been named in many tourist guide-books.
This four-floor building has unique architecture after several renovations but it still retains the French's colonized style from the early twentieth century. We can see it on the dome carved lots of patterns belong to old-century style.
In general, Saigon Tax Trade Center is well organized with modern escalators, air-conditioners, free access ATM machines, orderly showing areas. This Center attracts a large amount of domestic and foreign customers to purchase. Having more than 200 stalls, Tax gathers almost art and handicraft products, souvenirs made from all the ways of Vietnam in order to meet tourist’s needs. Its air-conditional supermarket on the first floor offers thousands of high-quality items with lots of national brand’s prestige such as daily clothes, silk, sportswear, foods……

On the second floor are stalls displaying suitcases, wallets, belts, hats, shoes, crystals, hand-made potteries, brocades…..as well as other special products to recommend tourists. Foreign people seem to like nicely sculpted stones and buffalo-horn pendants so much. Sometimes they can bargain with the sales assistants. In addition, you can also find out some famous clothing brands here. The staffs are so friendly and always smile with you. They will give you advices about styles and help you choose a perfect suit for yourself.
If consumers feel exhausted after a long shopping day, they are going to be better and relaxed in Yakasa Bao Tran restaurant with various courses from Europe to Asia. On the other hand, they also prepare many services such as wedding, birthday party, anniversary with quite reasonable prices.
Leaving all exhausted work behind, you should go to the fourth floor. Sitting in a small garden on the Center's terrace, holding a hot cup of espresso with little greasy milk covering will be such a gentle moment and unforgettable memory.
On special occasions like traditional Tet holiday, Christmas, this mall in splendid decoration receive quantities of people including local residents and foreign guests to here to enjoy the crowded atmosphere, take photos and go shopping for important events– It’s totally magnificent!
See other shopping place in Ho Chi Minh city: Diamond plaza, Ben Thanh market