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Though Bình Tân District is quite a distance from the economic center of HCMC, in it lies one of the city’s most extravagant buildings.

This 4-story beauty salon literally outshines its neighbors in the Bình Trị Đông B residential area with a design right out of the gilded age, complete with gold-leaf statues, ceilings, toilets, beds and sofas.

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The owner, Mã Đào Ngọc Bích, a businesswoman from Sóc Trăng Province, said that the idea of such a building came to her as a child and that it was her main motivation when building her beauty business from scratch.

Gorgeous or ostentatious – you be the judge.

[Ngoisao]

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