Turtle lake in HCM city's district 3. (Photo: phunutoday)

Time Out, a global media and entertainment business, asked more than 27,000 city-dwellers around the world about the best, most overrated and most undervalued neighborhoods in their hometown before coming up with their list of the best.

Listing District 3 18th among the top 50, Time Out describes it as "a buzzing but less well-trodden neighborhood where exciting new developments coexist with a sense of history.”

Here visitors will find colonial-era churches and villas alongside Buddhist pagodas and some of the city’s most renowned street food stalls, it said. Attractions include Tan Dinh Church, Nguyen Thuong Hien food street, and Turtle Lake.