(TITC) – Michelin Guide published an article suggesting a two-day tour in Ha Noi with a range of delicious street foods and interesting tourist attractions.
According to the Michelin Guide, Ha Noi is the ideal city when it comes to street food. To survive and develop, the eateries here have overcome countless taste tests, conquering the famous gourmets.
During 2 days in Ha Noi, diners can explore a variety of delicious dishes such as pho, banh cuon (steamed rice rolls), cha ca or bun cha.
Day 1
There is nothing more perfect than starting a new day with beef pho – one of the most favourite breakfast dishes of Hanoians in particular and Vietnamese people in general.
Located on Au Trieu Street, Hoan Kiem District, Pho Au Trieu (or Pho Tu Lun) is a familiar address for famous gourmet diners in the old town, also a MICHELIN Guide 2024 Bib Gourmand restaurant on a street which runs parallel to St. Joseph Cathedral. The pho at the restaurant has a cloudy, fatty, thick and quite rich broth in the style of Nam Dinh pho, not sweet, light and clear like traditional Ha Noi pho.
If you want to enjoy Pho Au Trieu, you should go early because the restaurant can quickly sell out due to the large number of customers.
To fill your stomach for lunch, diners can try the eel vermicelli specialty at Dong Thinh vermicelli – a restaurant awarded the Bib Gourmand 2024 for its delicious food and reasonable prices. The restaurant has been serving glass noodles with eel, greens, crushed peanuts and deep-fried shallots for more than four decades.
During the rest of the afternoon, visitors can look out for Bach Ma Temple, one of Ha Noi’s oldest places of worship, as well as Thuoc Bac street, where they can find decades-old shops selling traditional medicine.
According to the prestigious guide, tourists can finish their day with Chả Cá, a pan-fried fish with turmeric, noodles, and greens cooked right at the table at Chả Cá Thăng Long at 6B Duong Thanh street. The eatery is so popular it even has establishments on the same street.
Day 2
Besides beef noodle soup, banh cuon is also a popular breakfast dish in Ha Noi. Steamed wet rice paper rolls with minced pork, at Bánh Cuốn Bà Xuân restaurant to begin their second day in Ha Noi.
Coming to Ha Noi, diners cannot miss the famous bun cha. Tuyết Bún Chả 34, a MICHELIN Guide 2024 Bib Gourmand street food joint, serves extraordinarily generous portions of rice vermicelli noodles, grilled pork, and fresh green herbs. This bustling eatery is close to Truc Bach Lake, Tran Quoc Pagoda and Quan Thanh Temple, all important sights with long histories. Spend the afternoon exploring, and don’t forget to have a drink by the water at sunset.
At the end of the culinary journey in Ha Noi, tourists can try seafood at Oc Di Tu, which serves a dizzying variety of high-quality seafood delicacies in basic surroundings, such as prawns, clams, and cockles. MICHELIN inspectors were particularly impressed with the huge melo melo sea snails grilled with scallions and fried garlic and Venus clams with lemongrass, chilli and pineapple.
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