Top street foods in Ha Noi for you

1. Phở bò (beef noodle soup)
If you’ve experienced Vietnamese cuisine, chances are you've tried phở bò. This delicious beef noodle soup is crafted with fresh rice noodles and a rich broth that has been simmered overnight, making it a must-try dish on the streets of Hanoi. Once primarily a breakfast option, phở bò is now available throughout the day in the city. You can enjoy excellent phở bò in both the Old Quarter and the French Quarter. Here are three popular spots to sample this culinary delight.

 

Places to eat it:

• Pho Thin – 13 Lo Duc Street, Hai Ba Trung, Hanoi
• Pho Ly Quoc Su – 10 Ly Quoc Su Street, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi
• Pho Bat Dan – 49 Bat Dan Street, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi

2. Phở gà (chicken noodle soup)

Pho ga is made of fresh rice noodle with shredded chicken and chicken broth. Since the content of the broth is that different, a good pho restaurant in Hanoi serves only one of them on the menu – either chicken or beef. Make your own pick and if you go for chicken, these are some places:

Places to eat it:

• Pho Tien – 50 Nguyen Truong To Street, Ba Dinh, Hanoi
• Pho Tinh – 42 Quan Thanh, Ba Dinh, Hanoi
• Pho Ga Nguyen – 5B Phu Doan Street, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi

3. Bún chả (grilled pork with noodle dish)

Hunks of marinated pork patties and pork belly slices are charcoal-grilled before being put into a bowl of cooked dipping sauce, which is highlighted with colorful pickled carrot and kohlrabi. This delicous comes with rice vermicelli noodles and an oversized plate of medley of lettuce, cilantro and purple perilla. Wherever there is meaty smoke on the streets of Hanoi, there is Bun Cha – the city’s top choice for lunch. Following are three of them.

Places to eat it:

• Bun Cha Chien Loan – 25 Gia Ngu Street, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi
• Bun Cha Hang Quat – 74 Hang Quat Street, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi
• Bun Cha Huong Lien – 24 Nguyen Huu Huan Street, Hai Ba Trung, Hanoi

4. Bánh mì (Vietnamese baguette)

Though there are variations along the length of the country, Hanoi’s baguettes stick to the traditional basic ingredients. A crunchy banh mi Hanoi includes a cornucopia of grilled pork (or chicken), homemade pork-liver pâté, pickles, a generous sprinkling of cilantro leaves, slices of cucumber and chili sauce. The combination of these craft ingredients makes a bite into a well stacked baguette a moment of rapture!

Places to eat it:

• Banh Mi 25 – 25 Hang Ca Street, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi
• Banh Mi Lan Ong – 8 Cha Ca Street, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi
• Banh Mi Pho – 57C Dinh Tien Hoang Street, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi

5. Bún Ngan (duck creole noodle soup)

Bun ngan features a smart combination of boiled duck creole, bamboo shoots, rice noodles, spring onion and the broth from boiled ducks. The buttery richness of the local ducks stands up excellently against tangy bamboo shoots and savory dipping sauce! The dish is so typical and popular in the city that it’s consumed as a meal throughout the day. Another version of this soup is Mien ngan, in which rice noodle is replaced with cellophane noodle.

Places to eat it:

• Bun Ngan Ly Nam De, – 65 Ly Nam De Street, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi
• Bun Mien Ngan Minh Thu – 31 Ly Quoc Su Street, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi
• Bun Ngan Nhan – 11 Trung Yen Lane, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi

6. Bún bò Huế (beef noodle of Hue city)

Bun bo Hue is a crown dish of Hue, a former royal capital city in central Vietnam. In Hanoi, the dish is still called Bun bo Hue to denote its origin. A bowl of Bun Bo Hue contains the broth prepared by simmering beef bones, beef shank, chunks of oxtail, pig’s knuckles, and pig’s blood that congealed into maroon tofu-like cubes. This boldly flavored soup uses the extremes of spice and sour to offset salt and sweet. Below are two good places to try Bun bo Hue in Hanoi.