On Saturday, while having "breakfast" at a Vietnamese restaurant, the idea to go check out the Vietnamese market in Lichtenberg came up. Well of course! More food! Should there ever be a Saturday or Sunday with nothing to do, head there. The most fun I've had for a while!
It's a place situated quite off the usual routes anyone would pass by if you live inside the Ring in Berlin, but totally worth a visit. Why? Because they have it all. I mean, everything. Everything you could ever imagine you never will need and stuff you can't comprehend, why they exist.
Let's start with "Das erste Feuerzeug mit kalender". The first lighter with a calender on it. Calender from 2011, but who cares.
The market itself consists of X number of long halls (we just went to 2) with small shops on the right and left. The shops vary from regular Asian food shops selling all the curry pastes you could dream of, 18234756 different types of noodles and "Schweingeschmack", pork taste, in big bags. Yumm!
...and not just one type of ducks! But also hens.
We did actually buy stuff there too. I mean, with that amount of everything, it's impossible not to. In the food markets they had amazing, super fresh mangos, rice paper and vermicelli to make summer rolls, Tom Kha Ga-paste for the tastiest soup there is and some small stuff you never thought you'd need but at the moment realised you did. The bike pump I did really need.
When living in Lyon I used to go to the "China Town" that was a whole one street long, near Guillotiere, quite a lot, but never saw the food markets having fake money. These ones had, in every shop. Euros, Dollars, Yens...
It's open every day but Tuesday, and apparently this is the place Vietnamese restaurants in Berlin get their stuff.
Dong Xuan Center, Herzbergstr. 128-139, Industriehof an der Nordseite, 10365 Berlin
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