We love street eats and see it as the best way to explore a city, so we always prioritize a new city visit with a guided food tour. In our most recent vacation to Vietnam, a friend of us from New York recommended us Flavors of Hanoi for a private Hanoi Food Tour.
Food is the purest example and expression of an entire cultural and regional identity. The best way to discover more about a foreign city, especially one that’s as rich in history and culture as Hanoi, is through an exclusive gastronomic experience in the form of an intimate, and intuieractive tour with a local foodie guide.
Based on rice, which Vietnamese people eat three times a day. The Vietnamese cuisine is about the cooking of the green vegetable, fresh meat or fish using fresh herbs and spices to make delicious dishes to eat with the steamed rice.
When you wish for a change from the noodles or other traditional Vietnamese foods, La Badiane (French, for the star anise) comes up to be a great alternative in Hanoi to go for. It’s a Hanoi’s well-known French restaurant, offering fusion of Vietnamese and French flavors with international gastronomy.
We had many of our foodie clients from the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi Hotel, and beside food, we occasionally talked about the history of the hotel along our ways. As the property has been an important part of the city, we would like summarize its history in this blog post.
The ‘Luk Lak’ is a Vietnamese restaurant, situated in southeast of the Hoan Kiem Lake, and the location of the restaurant defines it belonging to the Hanoi’s French Quarter. The restaurant is about 5-minute walk south from the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi, and 2 minutes to the left from the Opera House.
