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: p
ho 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.
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| Pho |
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| Why we're not all that much into street food |
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| Making spring roll |
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| Yum |
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| Most of the eateries were near our hotel and Hoan Kiem Lake |
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| Thus |
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| Down an alley and up two flights of stairs |
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| For egg coffee, which I much enjoyed |
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| Vicki making her way back downstairs |
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| Beef jerky salad |
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| Known as "Beer Corner" |
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| Street scene |
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| "I remember Mama" shrine in one of the eateries |
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