Doc Thiet Street - Harmonious rhythm of the street

(Baonghean) - The speed of street construction seems to not be able to keep up with the opening of shopping services to meet the needs of the crowded population, so although there are still many empty spaces that look "wild", Doc Thiet Street (Vinh City) still "fills" the feeling of a bustling street...

New street construction on Doc Thiet street.

Decades ago, Doc Thiet Street (Vinh City) was a lane through the "original" residential area of ​​Hung Binh Ward, mainly engaged in agriculture and other manual labor. The road was originally a dusty sandy path in the summer and muddy in the cold rainy season, associated with the hard work of the majority of residents living in tiled houses in the middle of large gardens, with shady trees and ponds. Since the road was upgraded and widened, people with money came to buy land on the street to build houses, and the construction changed rapidly.

Doc Thiet Street is about one kilometer long, connecting Le Loi Street with Nguyen Van Cu Street. The street has both the old look of an early-formed inner-city traffic route associated with the age of the street, and the freshness of modern, luxurious residential architecture along with designs for small services to large hotels and restaurants that have sprung up in recent times. The rhythm of street trading quickly spreads from the two major service streets of Le Loi and Nguyen Van Cu to the two ends of the street, creating a rich diversity of business types that are temporarily dominating the market street.

Coming to Doc Thiet street, you can easily find any consumer goods from fish sauce bottles, shampoo packages, western medicine pills to expensive foreign wine bottles and high-end refrigeration products, information technology software with prestigious brands, although the space for these services is not large, sometimes only modestly and discreetly in the houses of residents. There are also 2 large scrap iron and steel purchasing points here, but there is still no usual filth and it has gradually become a market for buying and selling super heavy old engines and machines.

The architecture of the houses on the street promises that Doc Thiet Street in the future will be a modern but neat, imposing but not flashy street; and perhaps small services will gradually retreat into the alleys to make way for elegant spaces of shops, restaurants... with a civilized style. That is to say, because next to the isolated villas that were built in the past with unique architecture, now covered with artificial herbs and moss, there are new villas with services that not only do not break the rhythm of the old street but also enhance the value of "leading" the selective development of the young city.

The "original" residents here mostly retreat behind the street, mainly members of service-agricultural cooperatives that have been around for many years, not infected with the extravagance of changing their lives by selling land like other places, but cautiously catching up with new developments in their livelihoods. The cyclo driver has become a converted worker-farmer, the vegetable vendor has spent money to buy a market stall to do business... and especially knows how to invest in their children's education to become successful, or choose a stable job thanks to promoting the tradition of diligence. Therefore, the urban lifestyle does not have the frustration of many hidden social evils like many other "original" areas, so it is a great attraction for people from other places to come here to expand their business services, both resonating with diverse cultures and creating a favorable direction for the city to select and absorb new development impacts. Not surprisingly, many people from the old city who have now become successful, try to return to buy land to settle down, further attaching their responsibility to the city. The “original” children of the residents are well-educated and have many opportunities abroad. Some have now returned to their familiar cities to make a living. Each residential area and each alley, whether new or old, gradually overcomes selfishness and distance, unites to build a new cultural lifestyle, and civilized alleys. It is a spirit of mutual love and support in times of need, actively contributing to the construction of public works.

For many reasons, including land clearance issues, the eastern section of Doc Thiet Street has not been completed, the services are opened more cautiously, but still in the same order. And those "gaps" can be the conditions for the street to be harmoniously designed in the future, creating new impressions to become a shopping street aiming for Vinh City to build into a key tourist destination of the province. There will be small hotels next to mini supermarkets, entertainment services such as roller skating rinks, "new generation" karaoke... along with night cuisine. Also on this street, the residents on both sides will be planned in a chessboard pattern with spacious alleys interspersed with ecological projects aiming to create green nature in the middle of the street.

The street cuisine of Doc Thiet street is a remarkable thing. If the East side of the street has a famous clean chicken restaurant, then the West end is an eel porridge shop considered one of the representatives of Vinh eel porridge cuisine, and recently this restaurant has been invited to participate in promotional booths at regional culinary festivals. Now, the street has an additional restaurant specializing in duck and grilled pork rolls from Hanoi. The old porridge, eel, snail and frog shops have also renewed their spacious space and cooking methods while still serving at affordable prices, creating a culinary space for customers who love rusticity and intimacy. The old restaurant ladies, meeting again every five or seven years, seem to not have aged, still remembering the names and attributes of each customer!

Newly, a harmoniously developed street rhythm, without losing its own identity but still strongly oriented towards modernity and civilization, not only starts from the planning vision, but also in the quiet but intense style of the people of that street, in the old sounds multiplied through the selection of new and good things, in the awareness of building a neighborhood relationship. The street rhythm on Doc Thiet street is therefore worthy of the development level of Vinh type 1 urban area.

Sam Temple