Hanoi Old Quarter is honored by domestic and foreign tourists as the ” food paradise ” of Vietnam. With every step out of the hotel in the old quarter, visitors will immediately “face” countless restaurants from popular to high-end attractive, and irresistible.
Hanoi street food is very diverse. Every dish is attractive, attracting and stimulating all 5 senses of diners.
What to eat in a day in the Old Quarter is probably an easy question but still difficult to answer because there are so many options. But try the following street food tour with us:
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| Hanoi is at the end of autumn, the morning is cold in that atmosphere, nothing is more appropriate than enjoying the famous hot noodle dish on Bat Dan street. |
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| Small shop on the street but always crowded. Latecomers climb to the second floor on an old staircase – the typical space of houses in the old town |
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| A special feature of this restaurant is that the dish has been boiled in boiling water but not too soft, still retains its crunchy texture, not chewy and not fibrous. Another strange point for Southern diners is that they can eat vermicelli with crispy hot cakes |
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| Bun snail is the culinary quintessence of Hanoians not to be missed. If you want to eat delicious vermicelli, you have to go to Tay Ho district, but even in the old town, there are many special noodle shops. Bun snails like this can be found a lot in the old town, an attractive option for breakfast |
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| After breakfast “covered with coffee”, you can walk on the old streets, enjoy “Cold morning in the heart of Hanoi / The long streets are a bit cloudy…” to go to Giang coffee with coffee world famous eggs . But before entering the shop, you can prepare yourself an indispensable dish of autumn – nuggets |
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| This nuggets seller is familiar with many people when she often sits in front of Giang coffee on Nguyen Huu Huan street for many years. Almost every customer who enters the shop also stops by to buy a pack of nuggets, priced at 50,000 VND. The package of nuggets is enough for visitors to sip during a certain period of the day, if left for a long time, the nuggets will no longer be fragrant. |
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| The fragrant and thick egg coffee cup in Giang will give visitors a full day of energy to be able to visit some places in the city. The shop is always crowded, even on a Monday, so to get a satisfactory seat, you should wait patiently. |
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| What would you eat for lunch if not bun cha? There are too many delicious bun cha restaurants in the old quarter, but you should go to Huong Lien bun cha to try the feeling of former US president Barrack Obama eating at this place with super chef Anthony Bourdain in 2016. |
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| A portion of vermicelli with crab spring rolls. The shop is crowded at noon, including many foreign tourists. In order not to wait too long, you should arrive at the wrong time |
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| The restaurant became extremely popular after the event that Mr. Obama visited. However, on many world travel forums , many tourists criticize this restaurant and think that, if you want to enjoy bun cha in the most comfortable way, you should go to some other shops in the old town. term |
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| Supper can be a bowl of Pho Ly Quoc Su, why not? After all, for many people, traveling is about discovering food, eating comfortably. If it is not possible to add a bowl of pho, visitors also have many other snack options in the old town, dried beef salad by the lake is an example… |
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| Dinner is a plate of famous beef and melon fried rice on Nguyen Du street. Crispy fried rice mixed in greasy beef and delicious slices of pickle. Many people come here to eat only a plate of fried rice with beef pickle, or can add steamed chicken feet |
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| After dinner, you can walk around the lakeside and the stop could not be more reasonable: Trang Tien ice cream. |
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| On weekends, Trang Tien ice cream shops are crowded with buyers. Many people line up just to buy an ice cream and eat it on the spot. Ice cream nuggets are the memory ice cream of many people in the capital. |
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| The “end” of a day of eating and drinking in Hanoi is Ta Hien night street, watching the flow of people pass by, drinking beer and enjoying the joyful and youthful atmosphere of Hanoi ‘s youth . |
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| Coming to Hanoi in these late autumn days, visitors are sometimes startled when they see the beautiful flower-carrying bicycles on the street. This is the characteristic of Hanoi. You can stop by, buy yourself a bunch of fresh flowers and take pictures with the colorful flower basket. |
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| If visitors come to Hanoi in November, they will admire the flower carts full of daisies, and in October, the fragrant lotus branches. The end of October and the beginning of November is also the season of fragrant milk flowers on every street corner. What’s better than eating typical dishes of the old town and watching flowers in the cold of late autumn and early winter in Hanoi? |
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