Bui Vien pedestrian street reopens, many shops suddenly take over tables and chairs | Life

On the afternoon of 9.5, the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee issued an urgent notice to allow the bar in the city area to resume operations. Probably the happiest person to receive this notice is the people, the owner and the service staff of bars, beer clubs on the pedestrian street Bui Vien.

Although it reopened, the restaurant on the Bui Vien pedestrian street was unable to put tables and chairs on the sidewalk to receive guests.

Tables and chairs were finished starting at 6:00 PM, but at 8:00 PM many stores still don’t have customers. Photo: Dau Tien Dat

As noted, starting at 6:30 p.m., all store staff stood in the area in front of the store to greet guests, but Bui Vien Street was still deserted, not unlike the social divide . The whole street is full of few Vietnamese guests, very few Westerners, almost all the store staff.

Bui Vien pedestrian street is more deserted than day without outbreak Photo: Dau Tien Dat

Many stores are not ready to open to receive guests Photo: Dau Tien Dat

Mr. Lam Tuan Vu (Miss Saigon Restaurant Manager) shared that not being sold on the sidewalk is also somewhat less crowded, because Bui Vien visitors should sit on the sidewalk, listen to music watching the streets, cool breeze. .

All these days, Mr. Vu said, the restaurant staff waits for this day to work, to live in the bustling atmosphere typical of the Bui Vien pedestrian street. On the restaurant side, to attract customers on the first day of reopening, the store has a discount promotion.

Westerners were excited when Bui Vien bars were restored Photo: Dau Tien Dat

For Westerners, Bui Vien street “living” is a wonderful thing Photo: Dau Tien Dat

At 20 o’clock, many young people, some wearing masks and others without clothes, began to walk down the street. In the bar, the lights keep flashing, the music keeps fluttering, but the restaurant is empty, each crowded restaurant only has 1-2 tables with customers swinging to the music.

Although it reopened, the music fluttered, but at 8 o’clock this place still had no guests Photo: Dau Tien Dat

The bar is equipped with hand sanitizer for guests. Photo: Dau Tien Dat

Do Thi Yen Nhi, manager of Donkey restaurant, said that despite early cleaning, the restaurant was still very empty. According to the forecast, the restaurant will gradually reopen to return to work, but it is not known when it is full again as previous tourists because domestic tourists are not many, foreign visitors have not come.

Until 8:30 p.m., the youth started running towards the pedestrian street of Bui Vien.

Speaking to the journalist, the leader of the P. Pham Ngu Lao People’s Committee (District 1) said that, following City policy, the bars were reopened. However, to ensure urban order, the room will regularly check and remind people not to trade or invade the sidewalk.

Before Ho Chi Minh City issued an “order” to suspend business operations such as restaurants, bars, restaurants and breweries to prevent the Covid-19 epidemic, Bui Vien’s pedestrian street was packed with tourists. Tables and chairs spill out onto the pavement and sometimes onto the road.

In late February 2020, when the Bui Vien pedestrian street was not closed, the Covid-19 epidemic room was closed, Western and Vietnamese guests sat on the sidewalk.

Bui Vien pedestrian street was busy before closing the door of the Covid-19 epidemic room