When you visit Hanoi, you certainly explore some stranger things in life, in culture… Specially in cusine culture, you will supprise at them. You can see clearly in Hanoi street food.
When you are in Hanoi, you see that there are so many charming foods that is willing to preparing for you on the almost of streets. The top on this list is the famous Pho in over the world. Visitors can try the original Pho that has been in the capital_ Hanoi for many centuries such as Pho Bat Dan on 49 Bat Dan Street. The broth is always sapid from the beef’s or pig’s born and all the herbs. Pho is the best to be eaten on a chilly weather with some Quay (made from rice and fried crispy) or fresh vegestable. Now, there are many famous Pho restaurants such as pho Ly Quoc Su, Pho 24H or restaurants on Hang Trong street…
The cusine in Hanoi is colorful than more, not just Pho. From early morning to mid night, you can never be hungry or have to eat the same food when in Hanoi. Visitors will be tasted the soft stuffed rice pancake (banh cuon) on Hang Ga Street. The thin layer of banh cuon seems too ingenious to roll in the padding but with great skills and speed, the cooker keeps making foods after foods without breaking one. Banh cuon on Nguyen Huu Huan atreet is another popular place with distint kinds of sticky rice and meat. Bun Cha is other favorite for many visitors to Hanoi. The delicious roasted meat eaten with rice noodle dipping with sweet sour sauce is all favor lunch time for everyone.
When it comes to dinner time or join a Hanoi cooking class, visitors can taste in the many restaurants around Hanoi from mid-rank to high rank to know the different Vietnamese cuisines. Ngon restaurant is a popular place for foreign visitors can taste different dishes from distint region in Vietnam, Dimsun restaurants offers from Vietnamese cuisine to western dishes….. All in all restaurants in Hanoi have a good choice for both Vietnamese dishes and other foods.
Street food is a common dishes in Hanoi. In anywhere, specially in the Old Quarters being a good place to make a food walking tour, you can see small shop houses selling from breakfast, lunch and dinner to snack. It can be Pho, noodles, soups, Banh Cuon….anything you name it. From the out side look of it, it is so small, just enough for a few people but visitors can have a true taste of Vietnamese food, sitting in those small space and those tiny little stools. Even walking along the pavement, you can see middle age woman having a cave on her shoulders. Inside those cave, there are some charming dishes that only the local people knows How to call in and buy some.
Trying to taste Hanoi street food can be an adventurous experience but with great rewards if you know to look for shop with lots of customers and go for it. . You can try to taste “trung vit lon” its mean fertilized egg at 4pm, this street food may scare you, but it is one of the most popular snacks here and is considered extremely nutritious.
Besides diversity of many kind of noodle, made from rice cakes, soups you may be to try a bowl of pig raw blood soups made from the raw blood of pig, duck, goat…. There is some unexpected good taste waitting for you.
Other programs for reference: hanoi traditional food, vietnam food tour.