Thursday, February 27, 2020

Hanoi Food Tour

Our second night in Hanoi, we engaged a guide (through the hotel) to take us on a food tour. I am not a fan of Vietnamese food, nor is Vicki (!), but we felt (strangely) obligated. The tour took us through half a dozen hole-in-the wall eateries, some fairly well embedded in the urban infrastructure, and introduced us to half a dozen or so dishes. To wit: pho with chicken; steamed spring roll; egg coffee; dried beef salad with papaya; sticky rice, potato, tapioca, peanuts, served on banana leaf; pork noodle soup with veggies; pork/chicken/whatever on a stick in a baguette; mixed fruit salad with jelly, tapioca; black sticky rice with yogurt. Such was my understanding. The photos probably won't match up exactly, but they're representative of what was going on. Next night we ate at McDonald's.
Pho

Why we're not all that much into street food

Making spring roll

Yum


Most of the eateries were near our hotel and Hoan Kiem Lake

Thus

Down an alley and up two flights of stairs

For egg coffee, which I much enjoyed


Vicki making her way back downstairs

Beef jerky salad




Known as "Beer Corner"

Street scene

"I remember Mama" shrine in one of the eateries









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