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Thin Rolls & Deep Flavor: Bánh Cuốn in the Heart of Hanoi


Tucked away in a quiet corner of Hanoi’s bustling Old Quarter, this humble bánh cuốn spot has quietly earned its reputation among locals for decades. It’s not flashy—just a small street-side place run by a woman who has been making bánh cuốn for what feels like a lifetime. And that’s exactly what makes it special.

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Hanoi – Where to eat local food (Part 1 – Noodle)

Besides, Hanoi is a unique capital city with various historic sightseeing, Hanoi is still famous of a rich food-world. Today, I would like to recommend you some of local restaurants where I often taste.

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Fried fishes (Chả cá)- “must try” food in Hanoi

Indeed, if you ask Mr. Google about Hanoi, surely he shows you the one of signature foods which is fried fishes or Chả cá Lã Vọng.

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Steamed rice cake – a signature food in Autumn

These days, Hanoi has isolated for whole 2 months when autumn comes. Therefore, we only stay at home and cook by ourselves, however I still have missed some special foods of Autumn such as hot pot, snail noodle, hot steamed rice cake and so on. About hot steamed rice cake, it is a signature food of Hanoi in autumn, in fact, this is very simple to cook but which has its own taste, especially eating in cool weather. In additional, the steamed rice cake of Hanoi is different to other provinces.

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Fried spring roll

Have you heard about fried spring roll in Vietnam?

Surely, fried spring roll is a signature dish of people in our North which has a unique favor by their creativeness.

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Bun dau mam tom

Bun dau mam tom (fried tofu, shrimp paste, and noodles) is one of signature foods in Hanoi. Any visitors must try this dish when coming to our capital, we could find it at the hold of the wall to sell this one every streets, or also vendors sit a corner of any roads.

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Don’t waste one day in Hanoi

If you come to Hanoi, our capital, how do you spend the time to discover?

Actually, you could visit all places and taste all kind of unique foods in Hanoi, so I would like to introduce some specific ones then you could explore and understand about our city, our culture by shortest way.

Almost people know Hanoi as a traditional city with maintaining ancient places or local people’s lifestyle.

Let’s discover Hanoi with me one day.

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Com, young sticky rice in Hanoi

Hanoi’s young rice

When people talk about Hanoi in autumn, surely they will remember Com which is a special food in this city.

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