Bến Nghé Channel

Bến Nghé Channel or Bến Nghé Canal (Vietnamese: Kênh Bến Nghé, Rạch Bến Nghé), also known during the French colonial era as arroyo Chinois (Kênh người Tàu), is a waterway in Ho Chi Minh City.^[1][2] 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 ..."^[3]

1878 map of Saigon depicting the arroyo Chinois as the southern border of the city

Bến Nghé Channel seen from the Bitexco Financial Tower