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.
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.
On many of our Hanoi Food Tours exposing the city’s most typical street eats and daily home-meals of the Hanoians, we received questions related to various types of noodles. Many of them were about noodle dishes we sampled on our walk, many of them were about the noodle itself, such as “what’s the Vietnamese cellophane noodle made from?”
Street food in Hanoi is known to be a real heart-stopper. The city’s cuisine is powered by the idea that anything can be made better with spices, and it’s cooking menthods are perfected by families who has been serving the only one-dish for decades. If it’s good fresh, just imagine how cool it will be when you try it on the sidewalk!
Pho is the most popular dish in the morning, but bun cha is the top choice when it comes to lunchtime in Hanoi. And it’s been over 6 years since their visit to a local eatery, but the photograph of the former US President Barack Obama and Anthony Bourdain sitting at a bun cha table is still being mentioned when discoursing about the dish.
