Diamond Store in District 8 — 120 Pham Thi Tanh, Chanh Hung

Thảo Linh Jewelry has a single showroom at 120 Pham Thi Tanh, Chanh Hung Ward (former District 8), Ho Chi Minh City — and the workshop is right inside the shop, nothing is sent elsewhere.

Getting here and where to park

The shop is on Pham Thi Tanh street, near Chanh Hung market. From the city center, take Nguyen Thi Minh Khai – Nguyen Van Cu – over the Nguyen Van Cu bridge into Chanh Hung, then turn onto Pham Thi Tanh. From Binh Chanh or District 7, take Pham Hung and then Ta Quang Buu.

Motorbikes park in front of the shop, with an attendant. Cars park along the curb of Pham Thi Tanh — this stretch is two-way and quite busy in the evening rush hour from 17:00 to 18:30, so if you come by car, arrive before 16:00 or in the morning.

What you can see in store that photos don't show

Product photos are taken under studio lights, where every diamond sparkles the same. In reality they don't. Things you can only tell apart with the stone in your hand:

• Inspect with a 10x loupe. You examine the stone you're about to buy yourself, comparing it with the inclusion plot printed on the IGI certificate. Where each mark is, and whether you can see it with the naked eye.
• Compare colour side by side. A D stone and a G stone each look white on their own. Only side by side under neutral light do you see the difference. This is where you can save the most money without losing anything visually.
• Fire and scintillation as you turn it. Same size, same certificate, two stones with different cuts turned under a light give two different kinds of fire. No photo can capture this.
• Real ring sizing. A metal ring sizer set, measured at normal hand temperature. Measuring with paper or string at home is often off by half to a full size, and a wrong size means resizing — each resizing means working on the band again.
• Try it on for real. A high-set design looks slender in a photo, but on someone with small hands the stone looks too prominent; a bezel design looks sturdy in a photo, but suits people who work a lot with their hands better.

Workshop right inside the shop

Custom designs are modelled in 3D, printed as resin models on a DLP printer, then cast and set in our own workshop. You can come and see the model before casting — at this stage, reshaping, adjusting band thickness, or lowering or raising the setting are all still easy. After casting, every change means re-melting or remaking almost from scratch.

To be frank about the limits: working in our own workshop means fast changes and checking every step, but a custom piece still takes about 7–14 days from finalising the design to delivery, depending on complexity and how busy the workshop is at the time. If you need it urgently within a few days, choose a ready-made design and adjust the size — much faster.

Opening hours

Monday to Saturday: 9:00 – 19:00. Closed on Sundays — if you're only free on weekends, plan for Saturday, when we're open all day until 19:00.

If you want to see several stones at once to compare, or want to meet a craftsman to discuss a custom design, call ahead to book a time on 0945006001 so we can bring the stones out of the vault and the craftsman isn't in the middle of a job.

Chanh Hung or District 8

The current administrative address is Chanh Hung Ward, Ho Chi Minh City. Before the merger, this area belonged to District 8 — so on maps, on older documents or when asking locals for directions, both names are correct and lead to the same place. The full address is: 120 Pham Thi Tanh, Chanh Hung (former District 8), Ho Chi Minh City.

Customers from other provinces who can't visit

We film a video of each stone under real light and send it with the certificate number so you can verify it on IGI's website before deciding. This is enough to choose a stone by the 4Cs and by size, but it can't replace comparing colour side by side or measuring your ring size — for your ring size, ask a jewelry shop near you to measure it; don't measure with string.

Caring for your purchase

Everyday jewelry should come off when washing hands in hot water, using cleaning chemicals or doing heavy exercise. Diamonds are hard, but the prongs holding them are gold — a hard knock against an edge bends a prong, and after a while the stone will wobble and fall out. Bringing it in every three to six months for a craftsman to check and tighten the prongs is enough, and takes a few minutes. To clean at home, soak in warm water with a little dish soap and scrub gently with a soft brush; don't use toothpaste or laundry powder, since their abrasive particles dull the gold surface.