By Soyeon Kim Have any plans for summer vacation? During spring break I went to Hanoi for six days. Hanoi is the capital of Vietnam and the country’s second largest city. While we were traveling the weather was perfect, the food was perfect, and the landscape was absolutely amazing. I want to introduce three restaurants that made me fall in love with Hanoi, and I am sure that after reading this post you will want to go there, too! The first restaurant I want to introduce is Buncha Dakkim, which serves rice noodles with barbecued pork. Buncha Dakkim is located near Hoan Kiem Lake, an important landmark in Hanoi. It was a little hard to find but we really enjoyed the food. The rice noodles were chewier and thinner than what we were used to in Seoul and Taipei. This was also the first time I had rice noodles that were not already in soup.
You pick up the noodles by yourself and put them into the soup with the pork. You can also add some vegetables, but you must be careful because some vegetables have strong flavor. It tastes sweeter than other rice noodles we are used to. The spring rolls, made of crab and pork, were also really good. We paid less than $10 for all this food. Address: 1 Hàng Mành, Hàng Gai, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi The second restaurant is Green Tangerine, which is also located beside Hoan Kiem Lake. Because Hanoi was a French colony, there are still many traces. One of them is French food, so if you visit Vietnam you also have to try some reasonably priced French food. Some travelers we met recommended this restaurant to us, and it was perfect. The best part of was not only the food, but also the atmosphere. We were immediately comfortable in its refined interior design. The culinary creations served at Green Tangerine can be summarized in two words: authentic and experimental. The creative menu is changed every six months, offering options to impress even the most fastidious food critics. Enjoy authentic Vietnamese items such as spring rolls or fish in tamarind sauce. They also offer French classics with a twist, such as chocolate truffle fritters perfumed with tamarind and red fruit flower sauce. Every dish is a perfect balance of yin and yang. We ordered three dishes and all of them were wonderful. We had sliced duck filet in thyme, red wine, and grape sauce, with an eggplant covered in lime puree, and small pork ribs cooked in the oven with sweet and sour sauce and mashed potato and broccoli semolina. The most delicious part was the dessert, the best we ever had: mille-feuille served with lime and cranberry yogurt ice-cream, and chocolate crepes served with salted caramel. For lunch, we only paid $30. Address: 48 Hang Be Street, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi The last restaurant was Vietnamese. It is a franchise chain called Quan An Ngon, where you can enjoy authentic Vietnamese food. It has rice noodles, fried rice, Vietnamese spring rolls, and anything that comes to your mind when you think about Vietnamese food. Good quality, very cheap food in a lively atmosphere. You can sit at communal tables in pleasant indoor and outdoor surroundings. The food is cooked in areas surrounding the tables so you can see what you fancy. The best dishes include Bánh xèo, Vietnamese fried pancakes made of rice flour, water, and turmeric powder, and stuffed with slivers of fatty pork, shrimp, diced green onion, and bean sprouts. It is served wrapped in mustard leaf, lettuce leaves, and stuffed with mint leaves, basil, fish leaf, and other herbs, and dipped in a sweet and sour diluted fish sauce. I really liked the various fresh leaves and the shrimp and pork were also delicious. Another dish Bánh hỏi chạo tôm cuốn bánh tráng, the one on the right with the rice paper. It is also made of shrimp and pork and is really delicious. Quan An Ngon is the perfect place to have Vietnamese food in Hanoi. Address: 18 Phan Boi Chau, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi a
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