Our guide will meet you at the hotel and take you for breakfast. Start your one-day Hanoi food tour
by enjoying the breakfast in one of the most authentic Pho restaurant
in Hanoi: Pho Bo Hang Dong. Hanoi is considered to be the best place in
Vietnam for having Pho. Different to Saigon style, people in Hanoi
having Pho with only spring onion, coriander and basil as an herb but
they are not adding any bean sprout or vegetable in their Pho. For
additional spices, they use only chili sauce and vinegar or lime for
serving Pho.
The original Pho in Hanoi is Pho Bo, means Beef Noodle
Soup. One more typical thing of Pho Restaurant in Hanoi is even they are
very popular to local people, the owner never want to extend their
business such as open new branches or selling their franchise, that you
can see very well in Pho Bo Hang Dong Restaurant. For such along time,
the family still running the same business in this small and old
restaurant from morning to late evening, and the restaurant still look
like itself 20 years ago. The broth of Pho here so clear and sweet, that
made the restaurant very well known in Hanoi. Phở Bò Hà Nội – Hanoi noodles soup with beef
After enjoying the best Pho as the local in our Hanoi street food tour, our guide will take you to Café Kinh Do at 252 Hang Bong.
The shop is still keeping their know-how of making their bakery from
French time. During the time filming the movie Indochine in Vietnam in
early 90s decade of last century, Catherine Deneuve came here and raved
about the homemade yogurt. The yogurt still tastes the same there and
you are very welcome to try some of their home made cakes. French Bakery in Hanoi
Saying good bye to hospitable people in Kinh Do Café, we will come to Café Giang in 39 Nguyen Huu Huan.
The name of the Café is also the name of the founder Mr. Giang. He used
to be the chef in Metropole Hotel during French time and he had
invented to the unique coffee that you just can find in Hanoi : Egg
Coffee. Inspired from the idea of Cappuccino, he added the yolk in to
the strong black coffee for very special taste. It taste even better in
the cold winter days in Hanoi. Café Giang is one must stop during Hanoi food tasting tours ! People enjoy Vietnamese coffee at Ca Phe Giang
From Café Giang, you can take the relaxing but interesting ride on
Cyclo to stroll along the narrow street in the Old Quarter of Hanoi. By
this time of the day, in the mid-morning, you can see many activities of
local people on the street along your ride. Many of them still having
their breakfast on the restaurant on the pavement along the streets,
mostly are noodle in many different kinds. The cyclo will take you from
Old Quarter to Chau Long – the typical local market in the Old Quarter
of Hanoi. During this short Hanoi food market tour, You
can find all the popular material, vegetable, herb and spices for
regular meals of Hanoi people in this market as well as enjoy watching
the way of local people go shopping in the market. Instead of shopping
for once a week and keeps all the stuffs in the fridge, local people
here do it once a day, and mostly in the morning for very fresh meals
for their family.
After Chau Long Market, our guide will take you for the walk in Ngoc
Ha – the village used to grow flower for supplying for the city of
Hanoi. Even now most of the flower had turned to be new building, but
the village still like the Oasis in the central of the city that still
remains all the typical features the village in the Red River Delta such
as: the Communal house, village temple…. During the walk, you can have
the real experience about how actually the local people live in Hanoi.
This of thing you would never found from window of your bus in the
regular city tour. Many of the ground floor of local houses in the
village turned to be the shop or local restaurant for the own business.
At the end of the walk, you will see the surprise in one of the Village
Lake: the B52 wreckage was shot down from Christmas Bombing in 1972, and
it turned to be the monument until today. Banh Cuon – Rolled steam cake in Hanoi
For lunch in this recommended food tour in Hanoi, we will let
you to try 2 very typical and authentic dishes of Hanoi: Banh Cuon and
Bun Cha. Banh Cuon is a kind of thin steam pancake made from rice flour
rolled with minced chicken or pork with mushroom and shallots inside.
It is very important to have the good dipping sauce made from fish
sauce. The best Banh Cuon place that we will take you to try in Hanoi is
Banh Cuon Thanh Van at 14 Hang Ga Street. We just tried one plate of
Banh Cuon here as we need to save the stomach for the main course for
lunch: Bun Cha. You cannot find any other place have a good Bun Cha like
Hanoi. This is a harmony combination of rice noodle, pork barbecue,
crab spring rolls and like Banh Cuon, we must have elegant dipping sauce
for the dish. We will enjoy this dish at Bun Cha Dac Kim at 67 Duong
Thanh. Bun Cha – Rice noodle with barbecued pork
After lunch, take a walk along Hang Than Street and sample the
famous product here: Banh Com means Young Rice Cake. This is one of the
most popular present from Hanoi when local people travel out of their
city for their friends. All the engagement ceremony in Hanoi also need
to have Banh Com as the present offering from Groom to Bride family. The
stop to enjoy the flan or mix fruit or Mango sweet soup at 2 Nguyen
Truong To Street.
Afternoon you will have the option to visit some of the venue of the
city such as Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, Temple of Literature or Ethnology
Museum. Dinner will be at Cha Ca La Vong – the rice noodle
serve with grill fish at 14 Cha Ca Street. Cha Ca was consider to be the
most authentic and well-known dish in Hanoi, that had been ranked 5 from 10 of Places to See Before You Die in 2003 by MSNBC.
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