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Bến Nghé Channel
Bến Nghé Channel or Bến Nghé Canal (), also known during the French Indochina, French colonial era as arroyo Chinois (''Kênh người Tàu''), is a waterway in Ho Chi Minh City. Very much an urban channel, the sides are said to be lined with "many grocery stores, rice processing factories, sawmills, oriental drugstores, and warehouses, all owned by the Chinese. They hatch[ed] eggs, salted fish and eggs, dried fruit ..." References

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