Tràng Tiền / Hoàn Kiếm, Hanoi
aN Store is a Hanoi independent leather-goods shop selling bags and accessories from a shop at 8 Lý Đạo Thành in Hoàn Kiếm.
Best for Independent leather bags and accessories in Hanoi
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Leather bags and accessories are sold at aN Store, an independent shop on Lý Đạo Thành in Hanoi's Hoàn Kiếm district. Ho Chi Minh City's Ladan uses Vietnamese Dan Lat weaving to make clutches and totes among its handmade handbags. At Saigon Kitsch on Tôn Thất Thiệp, Vietnam-themed totes share three floors with ceramics and other graphic gifts. Audrey Tran runs that District 1 shop, whose souvenir range also includes magnets alongside its bags and home objects.
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Ladan is a maker in Ho Chi Minh City known for handmade handbags using traditional Vietnamese Dan Lat weaving method, bridging generations with candy-coloured pocketbooks, clutches and totes.
Best for Handmade handbags using traditional Vietnamese Dan Lat weaving method
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Independent souvenir and gift shop at 43 Tôn Thất Thiệp, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, run by Audrey Tran — three floors of Vietnam-themed magnets, ceramics, totes and playful graphic gifts.
Best for Playful Vietnamese graphic gifts and home objects
Saigon Kitsch is an independent souvenir and gift shop at 43 Duong Ton That Thiep in Ben Nghe ward, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, a short walk from the Municipal Theatre. Run under the Instagram handle @saigonkitsch_shop by Audrey Tran, the shop spreads its stock - magnets, ceramics, candles, tote bags, T-shirts and other Vietnam- and pop-culture-themed novelty items - across three floors, with a pottery selection singled out on the top floor. It's positioned for travelers wanting souvenirs with a design-forward sensibility rather than mass-produced tourist trinkets. The shop is cash-only and does not allow photography or filming inside, and keeps long daily hours (roughly 8am-10pm).
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Vietnam's first curated retailer of handmade craft and design—mugs, maps, notebooks, canvas bags featuring Vietnamese landmarks and street scenes.
Best for Vietnamese maker gifts, stationery and small home objects
The Craft House Original was launched as Vietnam's first curated retailer dedicated to modern craft and design from Vietnamese makers. Located in District 1 of Ho Chi Minh City with multiple locations including the Central Nguyen Hue store, it offers a carefully selected range of handmade gifts, traditional crafts, and local artworks. Products include printed mugs, artistic maps, notebooks, keychains, clothing, canvas bags, magnets, and coasters, all featuring designs inspired by Vietnamese landmarks or everyday street scenes—offering a different kind of local souvenir experience with hipster and high-quality aesthetic appeal.
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The New Playground opened in March 2017 as a concept mall for Vietnamese local brands, gathering more than fifty labels under one roof. The original site occupies a basement on Ly Tu Trong Street in District 1, with vendor stalls divided by wire mesh and lit in neon. Stock leans to streetwear, with graphic shirts, hoodies, denim alongside hats, bags, jewellery. A second branch trades inside Vincom Center Dong Khoi.
Best for Vietnamese streetwear labels in an underground District 1 concept mall
Hoi An
Blue Lotus Leather hand-cuts and hand-sews wallets, bags, and card holders in its Hoi An studio, and opens that same workshop to visitors for classes ranging from two-hour introductions to two-day advanced courses. The shop keeps its material focus narrow: leather only, finished by hand rather than machine.
Best for Handmade leather wallets, bags, and leather-craft classes
Visit official site ↗Old Town, Hoi An
Friendly Shoe Shop runs its own on-site workshop with more than 40 artisans cutting and stitching leather shoes and bags to measure, rather than sending orders out to third-party makers. The shop has worked in Hoi An for over fifteen years, building a line of named signature styles alongside its custom commissions.
Best for Bespoke leather shoes and bags
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Indigo Cat opened in 2012 on Fansipan Street in Sapa, founded by Pang, a young Hmong woman, as the town's first Hmong family-owned boutique. It sells batik and indigo-dyed textiles, bags, and home pieces made with Hmong, Dao, and Tay artisan families from surrounding villages.
Best for Hmong- and Dao-made indigo-dyed textiles and batik, direct from artisan villages
Indigo Cat was founded in 2012 by Pang, a young Hmong woman who had worked as a local trekking guide in Sapa, in Vietnam's northern mountains. The shop, at 039A Fansipan Street, is documented as the first boutique in the town owned by a Hmong family, opening despite Pang having had no access to formal education as a child.
From the outset the business was built on direct relationships with artisan families rather than wholesale sourcing: Pang built fair-trade links with Hmong, Dao, Tay, and other ethnic minority communities across Northern Vietnam who supply hand-embroidered and batik textiles. At its peak the shop employed five staff for sales and tailoring and worked regularly with more than 50 families supplying raw materials and finished pieces.
Beyond retail, Indigo Cat runs workshops teaching batik and natural indigo dyeing, operates a six-room guesthouse, and offers one- to three-day guided treks that include homestays with local families - extending the shop's artisan network into tourism as a second income channel for the same communities it sources from.
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This social enterprise turns hemp cloth grown and woven in nearby Hmong villages into tablet bags, scarves, table linens, and cushion covers, decorated with natural indigo dye and traditional motifs. Proceeds go directly to the craftswomen who make each piece and to a school the organization runs for their children, cutting out middleman resellers.
Best for Hemp and indigo Hmong handicrafts
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Ta Ca Phe roasts Vietnamese highland beans grown between 800 and 1,800 metres to specialty standards, serving them by phin, pour-over and syphon. The farm-to-cup roaster now runs four Hanoi locations alongside retail bags and barista training.
Best for Vietnamese highland coffee grown at 800–1,800 metres, roasted in Hanoi
Ta Ca Phe builds its identity around Vietnam's highland growing regions, sourcing beans grown between 800 and 1,800 metres and roasting them to what it calls specialty standards -- a deliberate contrast with the robusta-heavy blends common in much of Hanoi's traditional coffee scene. The roastery serves its beans through three brewing methods side by side at its cafes: phin, the traditional Vietnamese drip filter; pour-over; and syphon, a slower method rarely offered outside specialty shops in the city.
What started as a single cafe on Ngo Gach has grown to four Hanoi locations -- Ngo Gach, Au Co, Lo Duc and Ton That Thiep -- each running the same daily 8am-to-6pm hours. Alongside brewing service, Ta Ca Phe sells its roasted and ground beans retail, runs barista training programs, and rents out its venues, extending the business past table service into education and events.
The company markets itself on its own channels as 'the one and only in Hanoi,' a claim tied less to being the sole coffee shop in the city than to its combination of highland-specific sourcing and a side-by-side phin, pour-over and syphon menu that few other Hanoi roasters offer under one roof.
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