Published:  00:44 Tuesday - April 02, 2013

As soon as setting foot on Hanoi city, you should take a stroll and dicover favorite food in Hanoi cause it is one of your must-do list

1. Dried beef and papaya salad in Hoan Kiem Lake

On Dinh Tien Hoang street – Hoan Kiem Lake, it is always crowded because of the famous “Nom” restaurant (“Nom” is the indigenous salad of Vietnamese cuisine)

This dish is a combination of a variety of grated papaya, roasted peanuts pounded, marjoram, and dried beef tendon. Other ingredients include spice, herbs. The salad is mixed, soaked in vinegar, sugar, garlic, pepper, and seasoned with salt.

The dish is not sophisticated but very good. It features Hanoi’s style.

2. “Banh goi” on Ly Quoc Su street
Banh goi (“pillow cake”) is a popular cake which has crispy and golden brown shell, stuffed with pork, shrimps and some vegetables. It’s served with sweet and sour fish sauce.

There is a restaurant selling many kinds of fried cakes like fried dumpling, “banh goi”…on Ly Quoc Su streets. “Banh goi” here is not too fat, its taste is very wonderful.

3. “Banh duc” on Le Ngoc Han street
“Banh duc” is the rice cake made of rice flour and lime water. “Banh duc” on Le Ngoc Han street is attractive with the good smell and good taste. The cake is aromatic by the flavour of fried onion, fish sauce, and minced meat.

4. Snail rice vermicelli on O Quan Chuong street
Perhaps you cannot find the original taste of snail rice vermicelli in Hanoi except O Quan Chuong street. Snails here are very big and soft. Enjoying snail rice vermicelli, you should eat slowly. Initially, you can feel a little bit sour. You later feel the cripsy and delicious taste that make you irresistible.

5. Pho on Bat Dan street

People coming Bat Dan often have to queue up for Pho because Bat Dan restaurant is very famous throughout Hanoi. A bowl of Pho with sliced beef, green onion and aromatic broth attracts a lot of people.

In particular, Pho here does not come with lemon but vinegar.