Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Hanoi-foodwise

I am pretty sure Hanoi is my favorite big city in Vietnam. It is bustling with a very rich history without as much Western influence as Siagon.


I love this market! It's actually where we got Tim and Olivia their weasel coffee.


These are delicious pork roll. steamed rice paper stuffed with grilled pork, star fruit, mint and thai basil at Little Hanoi. Great place to pop in for a snack and some fruity drinks

The Street food place in Hanoi is awesome. Set up with about 20 different stales for you to choose from. Above is a cha tom dish basically grilled pork with herbs and spring onions and add your own noodles. It was great but not as good as the best pho I have ever hadThis is the best pho ever. The meat was chunked as oppose to strips of beef. It also had thick noodles and was very spicy.

This is a basic spring roll. really good cost about 50cents.
This is actually a restaurant we just walked into called Rainbow Cafe. This dish is actually called Cha Tom basically it's beef roasted around sugar cane served with rice noodle, pinapple, star fish and small banans and some herbs that you are meant to wrap in a dry piece of rice paper and east as a sort of asian burrito. so good.
Henry had Bun Cha. it was good. Another kind of do it yourself meal. I was a bit confused as every time we ordered Bun Cha it came out completely different.

This is actaully in Halong Bay which was for us a two day side trip from Hanoi. It was right after we went caving (or rather henry did and i relaxed on the boat. More water spinach. The Siagon spring rolls are to die for. the crust is actually tiny noodles made into a dough. Haven't tried to make them yet...
This was on the island of Halong Bay. Pretty standard meal again with the Saigon spring rolls.


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