An Duong Vuong Street - A new street space

(Baonghean) -Living or working on this street, everyone must thank the street for giving them such a beautiful and dreamy street space. A small tea shop, a bright cake shop, a coffee corner with moss on the laterite surface... make up the soul of the new street. An Duong Vuong Street is considered one of the young streets of Vinh City, and is expected to be a clearly civilized street...

A new street on An Duong Vuong Street (Vinh City).

In the early 1990s, An Duong Vuong Street was a small, gravel-paved street demarcated by two rows of stunted casuarina trees and only extended from Vo Thi Sau Street up to where the Truong Thi Ward Office is now. The intersection of Nguyen Xi Street running through Drainage Canal No. 3 was then a small iron bridge. And, the section from Vo Thi Sau Street down to Phong Dinh Cang Street was a rice field and cemetery, then a temporary residential area for the Nghe An Folk Song Group and the Beer Factory.

Up to now, the road is wide but the street has not yet established the construction standards on both sides of the street. In addition to the fact that the middle section from the intersection of Nguyen Xi Street to the intersection of Vo Thi Sau Street has not been cleared, there is also another reason: on both sides of the street there are offices and schools, training centers that have not yet chosen a place to rebuild. At the same time, perhaps because of that, it is difficult to build a specialized street on this street. Besides a few beauty salons and photo studios, the street now has only a few scattered coffee shops, restaurants, 4D cinemas... But even if they open and quickly close, or have existed for decades, any shop that opens here will be quickly known and remembered by people around the street. For example, the Viet Hien eel porridge shop located opposite the stadium of Truong Thi Ward, is considered the first eel porridge restaurant in the street, opened for decades now, the way of cooking and serving has not changed, many old customers leave, new customers come, it just naturally does not decrease nor increase. People who love eel can come here to eat 15 days a month. Perhaps that is why when the sign was re-opened, it added the phrase “traditional eel dish”…

Or, for example, at house number 18 on the adjacent South side of the street, someone had opened a coffee shop for a short time before the others had to move out. The new person who came to rent the shop didn't mind and kept the coffee shop open for less than a year and also moved out. However, the third person who came to rent the shop still kept the coffee shop open... I don't know what happened, but I asked the owner of the coffee shop that now has the Thao Moc sign, and was told that this place and this house, in terms of feng shui as well as the street scene, are very suitable for a coffee shop, but it just doesn't suit the owner's destiny! I don't know if the "business belief" is true or not, but the strange thing is that on both sides of that house, there is a tea shop with a cup of two thousand dong, or a 4D cinema coffee shop with a portion of five or seventy thousand dong, which are all full of customers every night.

Next to house 18 on the south side is a night grocery store that sells sweet soup called Che Dam. I don't know how much profit it makes, but in the summer, after dinner, customers come and sit on the sidewalk in droves. Che Dam is the distilled liquid extracted from crushed green tea; and the owner believes that not every mortar and pestle can make good tea; to make it delicious, you have to find a stone mortar from a deep forest stream, and the mortar is made from fresh bamboo tubes, which are replaced every few days. No one has ever seen that house pound tea, but every night when they come and order a cup of fragrant sweet soup, with ice added, they all exclaim with delight: delicious - cool - nutritious! That An Duong Vuong sweet soup shop, which opened in just one summer, quickly became famous, with customers of all classes, from intellectuals to workers, students to retired men who walk home at night from the Square...

It was buzzing but then suddenly closed, leaving many people on the street stunned... Opposite the tea shop, there is Lan Tram coffee, considered a street creation in both space and service style. The tiny shop was built with exposed laterite and burnt bricks, simple tables and chairs but very attractive to customers, many young people who have come here have asked to choose it as a background for their wedding photos. This unique shop could also be a gathering place for old Minsk motorbike enthusiasts, or a group of Nghe An photo clubs that are admired for their many charity activities in recent times?

Ah, the spacious street promises development but only a few simple drink shops are mentioned. On both sides of the street, the residential area is mainly civil servants, the houses are mostly built in the style of villas; the branch roads opening in are also neat and tidy, so it can be said that the trend of the street will gradually show a clear civilized look in the somewhat chaotic modern construction speed of Vinh City. It is also in that peacefulness and order. The street architecture of An Duong Vuong Street also has a strange feature that if this side is an office, the other side will be residential; staggered to the two ends of the street.

Some people say that An Duong Vuong Street of Vinh Street today, wears a rare dreamy and hesitant look; because it is applied to the interesting legend of an ancient Vietnamese king who has caused much controversy among historians as well as a unique inspiration for many literary works in the cautionary tale about love and the legend of the goose feather - the jade well. I like the word "dreamy street" because of the impressions of the early morning when the street is pink with sunlight, the silhouettes of people passing by in the misty mist on An Duong Duong Street regardless of the season...

Sam Temple