Bến Nghé Channel (Vietnamese: Kênh Bến Nghé, Rạch Bến Nghé), also known during the French colonial era as arroyo Chinois, 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]