2. Phụ thân Ca – Fish Sauteed in Dill và Turmeric, Eaten with Vermicelli Rice Noodles
Where: Cha Ca Thanh Long (31 Duong Thanh Street, Old Quarter)
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3. Xuyên Xeo – Sweet Sticky Rice with Mung Bean Paste, Fried Shallots & Meat of Choice
Where: Xoi Yen (35b Nguyen Nuu Huan Street, Old Quarter)
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4. Pho Xao – Saucy Stir-fried Rice Noodles with Beef & Greens
Where: No Name (Hang Giay Street between Hang Buom Street & Ngo Gach Street, Old Quarter)
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5. Nem Cua Be – Crab Meat-Stuffed Egg Rolls
Where: Bun cha Nem Cua Be Dac Kim (67 Duong Thanh Street, Old Quarter)
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6. Banh Cuon – Thin Rice Rolls Filled with Ground Pork & Woodear Mushrooms
Where: Banh Cuon Gia Truyen (14 Hang Ga Street, Old Quarter)
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7. Mien Xao Luon – Glass Noodles Stir-fried with Crispy Mini Eels, Bean Sprouts, Egg và Topped with Fresh Cucumbers, Fried Shallots và Purple Perilla
Where: Mien Luon (87 Hang Dieu Street, Old Quarter)
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8. Banh Goi – Deep-fried Pockets Filled with Glass Noodles, Ground Pork và Woodear Mushrooms
Where: No Name (52 Ly Quoc Su Steet, Old Quarter)
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9. Xoi Kem – Sweet Sticky Rice Topped with Vanilla Ice Cream và Toasted Coconut
Where: No Name (8 Hai ba Trung, the corner of Hai bố Trung and Phan Chu Trinh)
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10. Chim xoay – Barbecued Pigeon
Where: No Name (Hang Giay Street between Hang Buom Street & Ngo Gach Street, Old Quarter)
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Honorable Mentions: Northern Noodle Soups
Where: Bun Rieu – Sour Crab-based Noodle Soup with Snails & Tomatoes (Mai Hac De Street), Bun Thang – Chicken và Shrimp Noodle Soup (Hang Dieu Street, Old Quarter), Van Than – Wonton Soup (125 Mai Hac De Street)
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Let"s put it lượt thích that: Hanoi, Vietnam is not the perfect place for travel rookies, Asia first-timers or the average western city neurotic. It can be challenging first, because it"s so different. But if you find the right spot for you, wanting to lớn come back is only a question of time. Here are the 3 best areas khổng lồ stay in Hanoi:
Best Neighborhood N° 2Hanoi French Quarter
Best Neighborhood N° 1
There is a good chance you won’t lượt thích it here on first sight. It is loud. It is intense. It is full of scents you never smelt before & full of people you’ve never met before. Nevertheless you will find yourself right in the middle of their lives, right in the streets. A guy straps two dinner tables lớn his scooter while the woman next khổng lồ him keeps a charcoal fire alive. Her mother ties flowers và has an eye on the little boy waving at you while brushing teeth in his pyjamas. Hanoi Old Town is a crash course in dense Vietnamese thành phố life. If you can giảm giá with that, it might be just the area for you to lớn stay in!
You will get:
a crash course in Vietnamese city lifenoise, colours and excitementstreet food at every cornerprobably bumped into by a scooter at some pointNowhere else will you be exposed so quickly lớn so many facettes of what it means khổng lồ live in Hanoi. The historic center of the đô thị kept up surprisingly well throughout the centuries, therefore life is now condensed to lớn whatever space there is between the walls of the past. If you thought scooter-traffic was crazy in the wide boulevards of the French Quarter, imagine it happen right around you in narrow alleys without sidewalks. It is madness. A madness you can get addicted to. Sure, there are some beer bars that are clearly targeting western visitors. Some vendor ladies in the streets might sell stuff that is not 100% authentic & wear traditional stuff not to uphold Vietnamese culture. But compared lớn other cities of the world, even the Old Town of Hanoi still seems relatively untouched by tourism. It is amazing how much of what you see, smell và experience is not aimed at you as a visitor at all. Visit a food market after dawn & you will know what I mean.
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The Old Quarter is madness.
... A madness you can get addicted to.
Practical tip for Hanoi Old Quarter
The nice ladies with the cone shaped hats, balancing a bamboo stick on their sholders to carry around fruit in two baskets? Yeah, it looks amazing and sure, it seems nice và genuie when they ask you khổng lồ try balancing this thing on your sholder. & why not take a picture then? Because it is a little scam and you might kết thúc up paying 150k VND for a couple of pineapple slices out of guilt for having taken a pic. In the worst case she might point at the 500k bills in your hands và just take them before you notice it weren"t the 50s. (I only heared about that và it totally never ever happened to me ...)
Best Neighborhood
N° 2Hanoi French Quarter
The French Quarter – generous, elegant và colonial
The french did not mess around back then, ruling over their colony of Indochina. The so called French Quarter is evidence for it up until today, with its wide boulevards, cafés and villas that seem like a mix of Paris, Walt Disney"s Jungle Book và New Orleans. Most of the area south of the Old Quarter has been demolished & rebuild according khổng lồ the taste and needs of the French a little more than 100 years ago. Space for administrative buildings was needed as well as an emotional và aesthetical anchor into the homeland.
You will get:
wide boulevards & streetseven more scooters due to wider streets!french colonial style & shooping opportunitieselegance weirdly combined with a communist touchSo while the 36 super narrow & crowded merchant streets of the Old Quarter feel as vietnamese as it gets, the French Quarter is an alluring yet somehow weird mixture. There is an undeniable sophistication to the architecture, the wideness of the boulevards và the people having coffee and sweets in front of french style cafés. People dress up for work because most likely they work in an embassy. The contrast couldn"t be bigger to lớn the guys working infront of the embassies: grim looking soldiers in plain green uniforms with big plate caps, swinging their batons out of boredom. In the French Quarter vietnamese bureaucracy meets french lifestyle, the fading beauty of colonial architechture and western-ish shopping opportunities. But there is one thing that clearly tells you where you are: the mật độ trùng lặp từ khóa of scooters in the streets. It"s still Vientnam, Baby!
An alluring yet weird mixture of cultures.
Where bureaucracy meets french lifestyle & the fading beauty of colonial architecture.
Practical tip for Hanoi French Quarter
Although it first looks like the wider streets of Hanoi"s French Quarter would be easier khổng lồ pass then the super-dense và crowded narrow streets of the Old Quarter, it is quite the opposite: wider streets just mean more possible lanes for scooters. Stay calm, walk with a purpose and direction và never panic.
Best Neighborhood
N° 3Hanoi West Lake
West Lake – Chill, zen và international
In almost every major thành phố around the world, open water is a focal point. Be it the Seine in Paris, the Thames in London, the beaches of Barcelona or the harbors of Hong Kong. In Hanoi, the West Lake though seems to take off focus from all the hustle & bustle of an otherwise very, very intense city. The West Lake area, a long strip of land surrounding Tay Ho Lake, does two things better than any other neighborhood of Hanoi: reflecting light và reflecting thoughts. Try both of them at the same time by thinking about your life in the evening sun và you get magic moments of Zen.
You will get:
gorgeous sunsetsa view onto Hanoisome miễn phí spacesome quietnessan idea of the smog in HanoiLocals know that. That’s why they bring their birdcages to the water front, play board games and fish there. Expats know it as well. That’s why they rent overpriced apartments in this district from Vietnamese people that bankroll their children’s education abroad with it. So it all comes full circle: people move here, so that other people can move elsewhere. You, on the other hand, should stay in the West Lake area if you are in tìm kiếm of quietness and open space – two otherwise rare goods in Hanoi. For western travelers it might also be the district most easy to adjust to. So if you feel lượt thích you are not ready yet to be thrown right in the middle of all the madness, West Lake will be your ideal base camp.
Reflecting light và reflecting thoughts.
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Two things that the West Lake area does better than any other neigborhood in Hanoi.
Practical tip for Hanoi West Lake
Try to get up onto one of the rooftop terraces of a highrise building at West Lake as soon as you can. Ideally for Sunset. Not only is it gorgeous but it gives you an overview of the thành phố that I think is very important for your stay.
Summit Lounge of the Pan Pacific hotel is one of them. It is expensive though, so if money is a topic, just order one drink và overstay your welcome untile sun has set ;-)
You will feel like the only foreigner in Hanoi quite often. But what can be rather scary in other cities of the world never felt lớn me this way. Locals are either very friendly or just ignore you, even in areas where you are literally the only non-local. But for the sake of transportation (which can be hard sometimes), try to lớn keep the necessary commutes as short as possible and stay in one of the (more central) mailinhschool.edu.vn. Areas in the outskirts of Hanoi are neither interesting for visitors nor practical.
Hanoi in under 1 minute
How Hanoi is structured:
The city of Hanoi is divided into four main sectors: Hoan Kiem, ba Dinh, Hai bố Trung, & Dong Da.
Hoan Kiem District is in the heart of Hanoi và typically very lively especially for tourists.Ba Dinh District is northwest và completely packed with various museums.Hai ba Trung District in the south where Thong Nhat Park is locatedDong domain authority District is historically important given that the Chinese were defeated there. This sự kiện is immortalised in the Tet holiday!
Hanoi is greatly influenced by the French when they ruled over them. You will find some areas to be more planned rather than chaotic given that the French brought over their urban planning which was used in Paris when reorganising the city.
How Hanoi is structured:
The thành phố of Hanoi is divided into four main sectors: Hoan Kiem, bố Dinh, Hai tía Trung, & Dong Da.
Hoan Kiem District is in the heart of Hanoi & typically very lively especially for tourists.Ba Dinh District is northwest và completely packed with various museums.Hai tía Trung District in the south where Thong Nhat Park is locatedDong domain authority District is historically important given that the Chinese were defeated there. This event is immortalised in the Tet holiday!
Hanoi is greatly influenced by the French when they ruled over them. You will find some areas khổng lồ be more planned rather than chaotic given that the French brought over their urban planning which was used in Paris when reorganising the city.
Fast Facts
Airport khổng lồ city
Hanoi is reachable via the Noi Bai International Airport (HAN) which is located roughly 30 kilometres from the city centre.
The fastest option to lớn the đô thị centre are taxis. They take around 45 khổng lồ 60 minutes depending on traffic. Expect around 300,000 VND (~12€/$). Bargaining skills will come in handy and taxi sharing is quite common but be advised - choose a rather known taxi company such as: dai Nam, Viet Thanh, Mai Linh. You vị have two different options regarding buses. Both take around 1,5h but costs & operating hours differ. The thành phố bus lines 7 và 17 cost around 5,000 VND (~0.2€/$) and operate from 5am khổng lồ 10pm. They run every 15 to trăng tròn minutes. The express bus 86 takes roughly the same time & operate from 5:05am lớn 11:05pm. Its interval is around 25 minutes. It does cost a little more with 30,000 VND (~1.2€/$) but you have two different routes with 10 stops each, so you are a little more flexible. Shuttle-buses are available as well. They cost 40,000 VND (~1.4€/$).Security
Hanoi is considered to be generally safe. But taking the typical precautions is advisable just to lớn be on the safer side. Pickpockets và taxi scammers are somewhat common but easily avoidable.
Getting around
In the area around Old Quarter & French Quarter it is possible lớn just walk. This can be a bit stressful though because often sidewalks vị not exist or they are blocked by something.For you as a visitor the xe taxi might be the prime mode of transportation in Hanoi. It is cheap (the average ride might cost 1-5 $/€), reliable (taxi drivers tend lớn find their destinations), safe (4 wheels and metal around you) & mostly airconditioned. They all drive with a meter and usually are very correct.Renting a scooter is a possibility if you are brave, ức chế resistant and looking for a lifetime experience. If not all three factors apply to lớn you: are you crazy even considering this?!
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Hanoi provides with almost endless option regarding getting around the city.
Taxis are the most convenient one given that they are fairly cheap compared lớn other major cities. Make sure khổng lồ have the meter running và keep and eye on it.Cyclos are more suitable for shorter distances & especially visiting the Old Quarter.Xe Om (scooter taxis) are not metered so agree on a price prior your arrival. Two different metro lines should be available at the over of 18Renting motorbike or oto - careful huge traffic, international driver’s license not validMetro will bill available at the over of 2018.Uber not available in Hanoi as Grab is the prefered service operating there but due to complains from the side of normal taxi drivers the situation regarding xe taxi apps is not clearly defined yet, as once banned Uber already started working on a solution. Do not count on having apps lượt thích Grab be available during your visit.
Rookie mistakes you should avoid
Crossing the street the wrong way (e.g. Starting to lớn run or stopping in the middle of the street).Not having cash on you when taking a xe taxi (or only having big bills of cash).Getting pressured into paying way too much for some fruit by one of the traditionally dressed vendor ladies that first let you carry their baskets & hats for a pic.Thinking getting honked at by a car or scooter means you did something wrong or mistaking it for some kind of aggression by the driver. It is just their way to tell you "I"m here!".
Who lớn tip: Tipping is not really expected in Vietnam, but common & appreciated in upscale restaurants, bars & hotels. Tipping spa employees and tourguides is expected though, while giving tips khổng lồ street food vendors or taxi drivers is not common.
How much? 5% khổng lồ 10% for waiters; round up to lớn the next ten-thousand if you want to tip a taxi driver; 20% lớn 30% for spa employees và bar keepers because they get paid very little often và rely on tips; the equivalent of 1-2 $/€ for room maids or doormen carrying your luggage in hotels; 3-5 $/€ for tour guides.
The mode: Since service charges added to your restaurant bill rarely kết thúc up at the waiter that served you, give them your (additional) tip directly. The same goes with employees in high kết thúc spas that have a service charge. As an alternative, you can also just leave the tip on the table or at the bar after getting your change.
