Top 10 Eats in Hanoi
10 . Fanny Ice Cream @ 48 Pho Le Thai To
This is the place to chill after walks around hot, humid and horn-blaring traffic in the streets around Old Quarter. The Fondue option gives you a choice of 14 flavours and we tried, Chocolate, Dark Chocolate, Rum & Raisin, Strawberry, Mocca, Passion fruit, Soursop, Tutti frutti, Baileys, Green Tea, Raspberry, Nougat, Chocolate Chip & Mango! Whew... My top 3 flavours are Chocolate, Green Tea and Rum & Raisin. We went back another day to try their Avocado and Salt Caramel and I favoured the latter more.
9. Banh My @ Dong Xuan Weekend Night Market
The kebab meat served with pickled vegetables in a warm bread sat well with LR. He said this was the closest to the Saigon Baguette he can find in Singapore.
8. Banh Ghoi @ 52 Pho Ly Qouc Su
8. Banh Ghoi @ 52 Pho Ly Qouc Su
We were clearly disappointed when we got to the stall and found out that this was a curry puff dish, when the description I was given was meat patty with glass noodle. I guess we were expecting this to be similar to our favourite dish - Bun Cha but just served with glass noodles.
Also, the previous stalls we went usually were packed with locals, but this stall was empty with 3 stall helpers chatting among themselves listlessly. Sigh, I guess this Singaporean mentality of long queues & many patrons equals to delicious food will forever be in our blood. So anyway, we sat our butts down on those tiny plastic red and blue stools and waited for our 'curry puffs' to be served.
First came some pickles and herbs then the Banh Ghoi cut into 3 pieces. Then I began to see that the fillings consisted of glass noodles and meat, hence the description I got. The first bite reminded me of the usual fried spring rolls, but the combination of pickles in sweet sauce and herbs had me gobbling up the next 2 pieces in a jiffy. Yummy!
7. Green Papaya Salad with Beef Jerky @ Quan An Ngon
We ordered this dish without the beef jerky the 2 other times we came back as an appertiser. For less than S$1 this really is a good starter to whet your appetite for more to come!
This place is the place to go if you want to eat all the street food in Hanoi under one roof! In Hanoi, the street food or stalls believe in specialisation. They do a one dish system and therefore if you want to try a variety of food, I would highly recommend this place. Also, the prices are not much different from those on the streets. There are other added advantages of coming to this place as well is that firstly, there's a menu in English to tell you exactly what you are going to expect, secondly, the stalls are around to let you wander around and point at what caught your eye and lastly a pretty important factor for weak tummies, this place is 100 times cleaner than the usual street food.
These are the following dishes we tried there...
Banh Xeo - Saigon Pancake
Sugar cane wrapped in prawn paste and served with a putu mayam type beehoon patty. The sugar was really rock hard and you would not be able to chew on it to savour the sweet juices of the sugar cane.
6. Apple Tart with Ice cream @ Little Hanoi
Walking in Hanoi makes you want to go into nice air-conditioned cafes and have a cold drink with some sweets. We stumbled upon this cafe at a corner of a busy street and ordered the cream caramel and apple tart. This apple tart was more apple than tart and the apples were sliced so thinly and warmed to the right temperature with the perfection of matrimony with the cool and melting ice-cream was heaven....
This rice dish I first ate in believe it or not in Brisbane and ever since I've not had the full works (grilled pork with egg loaf and shredded pork). Mainly in most Vietnamese restaurants in Singapore, they leave out the egg loaf and shredded pork, so sinking my teeth into the much missed complements was pure bliss :)
4. Banh Cuon Gia Truyen @ 14 Pho Hang Ga
Vietnamese version of Chee Cheong Fun
LR enjoyed this dish much more than I did and I blame the fried shallots while LR thanked the fried shallots. The skin is made on the spot and stuffed with minced pork and mushrooms. You dip this in a somewhat similar to the dim sum kind of chee cheong fun sauce that is probably a mixture of soya sauce and sugar.
3. Bun Bo Nam Bo @ 67 Hang Dieu St
I was surprised by the size of the bowl. It was huge. This is a noodle dish (bun) topped up with saute beef and bean sprouts with nuts and pickels and very flavourful sauce that I do not know what but am just grateful that I had the chance to eat it as my first lunch meal in Hanoi!
This auntie basically sits there to saute the beef with beansprouts.
There were some wrapped up thingy that looked like ba zhang but I never got down to trying it.
Probably the only street food place that had long benches instead of the usual plastic too small for a non-local's butt stools.
2. Pho Bo Xao @ Nua Hang Phu Ny, 45B Bat Dan
Also, the previous stalls we went usually were packed with locals, but this stall was empty with 3 stall helpers chatting among themselves listlessly. Sigh, I guess this Singaporean mentality of long queues & many patrons equals to delicious food will forever be in our blood. So anyway, we sat our butts down on those tiny plastic red and blue stools and waited for our 'curry puffs' to be served.
First came some pickles and herbs then the Banh Ghoi cut into 3 pieces. Then I began to see that the fillings consisted of glass noodles and meat, hence the description I got. The first bite reminded me of the usual fried spring rolls, but the combination of pickles in sweet sauce and herbs had me gobbling up the next 2 pieces in a jiffy. Yummy!
7. Green Papaya Salad with Beef Jerky @ Quan An Ngon
We ordered this dish without the beef jerky the 2 other times we came back as an appertiser. For less than S$1 this really is a good starter to whet your appetite for more to come!
Quan An Ngon , 18 Phan Boi Chau St
This place is the place to go if you want to eat all the street food in Hanoi under one roof! In Hanoi, the street food or stalls believe in specialisation. They do a one dish system and therefore if you want to try a variety of food, I would highly recommend this place. Also, the prices are not much different from those on the streets. There are other added advantages of coming to this place as well is that firstly, there's a menu in English to tell you exactly what you are going to expect, secondly, the stalls are around to let you wander around and point at what caught your eye and lastly a pretty important factor for weak tummies, this place is 100 times cleaner than the usual street food.
These are the following dishes we tried there...
Banh Xeo - Saigon Pancake
Sugar cane wrapped in prawn paste and served with a putu mayam type beehoon patty. The sugar was really rock hard and you would not be able to chew on it to savour the sweet juices of the sugar cane.
You basically wrap the prawn meat, putu mayam thingy, herbs, cucumber and what appears to be banana in rice paper and dip in the sauce.
Dessert that LR ate everytime we were there :) It was a cross between cendol and red ruby. The interesting thing about this dessert is that they serve it with mashed up mung beans to give this dessert a creamy texture.
6. Apple Tart with Ice cream @ Little Hanoi
Walking in Hanoi makes you want to go into nice air-conditioned cafes and have a cold drink with some sweets. We stumbled upon this cafe at a corner of a busy street and ordered the cream caramel and apple tart. This apple tart was more apple than tart and the apples were sliced so thinly and warmed to the right temperature with the perfection of matrimony with the cool and melting ice-cream was heaven....
5. Grilled pork rice with egg and shredded pork @ Quan An Ngon
This rice dish I first ate in believe it or not in Brisbane and ever since I've not had the full works (grilled pork with egg loaf and shredded pork). Mainly in most Vietnamese restaurants in Singapore, they leave out the egg loaf and shredded pork, so sinking my teeth into the much missed complements was pure bliss :)4. Banh Cuon Gia Truyen @ 14 Pho Hang Ga
Vietnamese version of Chee Cheong Fun
LR enjoyed this dish much more than I did and I blame the fried shallots while LR thanked the fried shallots. The skin is made on the spot and stuffed with minced pork and mushrooms. You dip this in a somewhat similar to the dim sum kind of chee cheong fun sauce that is probably a mixture of soya sauce and sugar.3. Bun Bo Nam Bo @ 67 Hang Dieu St
I was surprised by the size of the bowl. It was huge. This is a noodle dish (bun) topped up with saute beef and bean sprouts with nuts and pickels and very flavourful sauce that I do not know what but am just grateful that I had the chance to eat it as my first lunch meal in Hanoi!
This auntie basically sits there to saute the beef with beansprouts.
There were some wrapped up thingy that looked like ba zhang but I never got down to trying it.
Probably the only street food place that had long benches instead of the usual plastic too small for a non-local's butt stools.
2. Pho Bo Xao @ Nua Hang Phu Ny, 45B Bat Dan
1. Bun Cha @ 34 Hang Tha
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