Friday, October 26, 2012

Vietnam - Hanoi Trip -Day 1 - Dinner

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After resting in the cozy hotel, we decided to head to Hoan Kiem Lake which is about less than 5 mins away from the hotel (see below map).

Right infront of Meracus Hotel is Hang Dau Street also known as Shoe Street. The whole street sells mainly shoes. You have to bargain real hard to get a good deal.

Just beside and north of Hoan Kiem Lake is where the action is. There's a building where KFC fast food restaurant is located and most called this building KFC building. Over the next few days, we would be coming here a lot.

We decided to have dinner at Hanoi Soul Cafe in a building beside the KFC Building and above the tourist information centre marked "i" in green in the below map.

Of course our first meal must be the famous and signature dish of Vietnam, Beef Pho. Pho is vietnamese noodle served with soup and topped with beef and bean sprouts.

Another signature dish of Vietnam is this dish called Bun Cha. Bun Cha is a dish with noodles and meat patties. The service crew taught us how to eat this dish. We had to dip the noodles, salad and meat patties into the sauce made from fish sauce, etc.

We also had some deep fried vietnamese spring rolls.

The vietnamese red chillies are really spicy.

To end the dinner, hubby had vietnamese coffee.

The above map was from the information centre which I collected earlier. I used my camera to take a photo shot of the map so I hope is useful to those who are heading to hanoi for a vacation.

Hanoi is a fantastic place, so much better than I expected and easy to move around. So make Hanoi your next travelling destiantion.

A short video of the surrounding from the Hanoi Soul Cafe.

2 comments:

Oman said...

My Buddy Dong said vietnam has some of the tastiest street foods around and with your post, i believe him more.

alicesg said...

When in Vietnam, you have to try their vietnamese food. :)