Lemon Tea Church - A Transient Hanoi Vietnam

The faint smell cup of jasmine tea fragrance, dotted one to two slices of fresh lemon, sweet, sour, acrid chan became the familiar beverage of the people of Hanoi Vietnam.

The drink is popular only with the material life, but it was so appealing to so strange. If anyone has been to Hanoi and the opportunity to enjoy tea in lemon Cathedral on Nha Chung Street, is sure to be unforgettable.

Also with this drink, but if you enjoy in a different location, then make sure you will not have that special feeling where. Sitting sipping lemon tea with melon seeds bite chatter nhach disk, or lost packets on the corner candy town, observe the beautiful scenery around the ancient Cathedral, watching the flow of people and vehicles crossing the road, results are an interesting experience for you.

Each season is different, lemon tea Church to bring you new things, not only its taste but also to other emotions had become strangers. Some people say lemon tea is just right for hot sultry weather, the days like a glass of lemon tea and seats on the Cathedral itself, the heat disappears. And the hot sultry summer's day will slip under the refreshing sip of tea story chatting with his friends. What about winter? The day may wind pigs, each gust of wind rushed on to make us shudder. Sitting inhaling the hot lemon tea cup, nestled in a small angle, drooping leak stories fun with his partner is not so exciting? The cold seems to make people closer together, love each other.

If Saigon Vietnam is famous for coffee South Sailing pans, Hanoi is also known as lemon tea Church with the most consistent being sold on the sidewalk, or the tea she sold on the street working. With the advantage of selling on the wide sidewalks, places that have become suitable for large gatherings and stories spun the straw cups lemon.

Whenever evening falls, the area around the Cathedral has become busy, busy people to drink tea. Despite sits nestled between small cramped seats is also nobody, complaints or irritable. Both the bustling streets by happy laughter, conversation, the voice of another mind Oh ... A little like Hanoi show up in your eyes ...

Simple with street food in Hanoi Vietnam

Come to a meeting in Hanoi late afternoon, Mark was lucky to find yourself a very deep around Hanoi Vietnam City: "The first day will slightly bitter winter here as made me more impressed with the image of women the oil pan is hot, but I see everyday on the way to his leisurely walk. She seemed so familiar with foreign big man always my favorite cake that I always "enjoy" a nod or smile fondly when she approached the place. "When it comes to Vietnam Nam them yourself, one of the things that many people become interested in foreign and patriotism is S-shaped by the friendliness of the simple human labor.

"Because of her smile that sale, I prefer the more love than the browning bread appeared around her nursery, which is the tortilla, potato cake, banana cake ... all behaved in the oil pan . Before that, she was willing to sell cut pieces of potato chips, small cups corn and banana slices are then immersed in a viscous liquid mixture is called a dough consistency. The banana cake looks like a piece of fried fish and potato cakes as the mesh is made from fried potatoes are out of order on a set price level for oil pan drain and wait for the attention of passing customers. Of course, among those who are fascinated by the lovely nursery yellow cake myself - who quickly helped her friendly sales torn pieces of newspaper and more willing to increase the body weight less fertile his bread by other aromatic tingle. "

If you are a lover of Hanoi, make sure you can not help but love a Hanoi with the announcement of her cold cylinder, the burden you with the goods on hand, all across the globe described streets, alleys these days cold winter winds. You will certainly be remembered and loved by Hanoi so immediately a man from lands as far away as Mark also "brimming" to remember "in the space of a winter se se, I still see them - people work hard every description filled with heavy baskets of bread on top, or the corn in hot sticky aluminum tank filled with little on his shoulders. "But not only remember the winter of Hanoi, remember that Mark was "attracted to the scent of the exotic cassava ivory filled out in a huge pot. Drop between the breath of smoke, you smoke as sympathetic fibers radiating from both rooms untouched pot. The cassava is boiling, sprinkle coconut fiber and eating behavior, you have to enjoy it with a little sesame salt. It is said that cassava is poisonous foods and not healthy, it is the theory of the West. But in Vietnam, you must know to cassava, not only because you will always see the carts with fragrant smoke of cassava, but also by food that is fed the revolutionaries in the both French and American wars, or my fellow Vietnamese people, he called cassava as food-eat-your-poison-up. "

Unlike radiate warmth of cassava or banana yellow cake nursery attractive, donuts - that food is considered the most popular in Ha Thanh - Mark to attract the costs caused by "shock" of it " Only 1.000vnd, only 1,000 for a ball made from aromatic and crispy flour (rice flour Rather than have a baby? He does not know it ...). A donut with outer brown dotted unique attractions of sesame seeds which I think people use it to sign two different kinds of donuts here. Fresh donuts, there's sweet (of course one thing) with a mixture of mashed chick peas shelled and chopped coconut. But there salt cake classes mysterious inside, I could only find some ingredients like ground pork and black mushrooms, of course, you will not see the sesame seeds on the crust of salt cake ".
 
In addition, Mark also enjoy many other dishes from the popular restaurant where the sidewalk of Ha Thanh, which is "the book cake made from rice flour-coated thin band of smooth white spotting little minced with minced black mushrooms that you can only see it when there's a good collaboration of the usefulness of mint leaves, shallot (oai. .. Why are shallots?) and a bowl of sauce with ball for it ", that is" second stick with the glitz of the form, like a brown building in the glassy, ​​slightly blackish water is made from sugar melting wave akin to the lake "Then there are many, many other simple dishes were Mark explore and experience.

In this peaceful land, distant friend of his had found the moment very content to go with what seemed like the time we have forgotten its existence. Incidentally, Mark has helped us to be spending a few moments to return to Hanoi peaceful and full of beloved dishes for everyone's childhood.

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If no street vendors in Hanoi Vietnam ...

Wandering the mannequin delicious restaurant in Hanoi

From the corner market, a small alley, to the city center as Hoan Kiem, Ham Long, doll dishes contain enough "taste of death" was caused not so many diners crave, be sure to forever.

1. Best beef jerky puppet

Did not know the specific time as well as the real source of dummy items dry cows. Just know that, when passed through a small market or side alley a certain school, heard the continuous separation of the drag cup, fragrant aroma of basil Lang is now a shop mannequin said.

Composition of food from the child, say, from the youngest pupils, to what the students like a lot but also cheap, and of her sister Tíu the headline "wholesale melon pear, melon selling coffee", then he prefers the "modified wind" sensitivity.

Snacks mannequin-something very simple in composition but extremely tasty condiment by the reductions. Dry cow dummy items including green papaya small cell fibers, little more optimistic, mixed sweet and sour sauce, a few pieces of dried beef sliced ​​thin, Lang basil, smell it, marjoram, a little chilli ...

Yet for many people, this dish packs out "the flavor of life" in all sorts of spicy-sour-salty-sweet above.

Any lane, corner any market may also experience an effigy of the pavement, but the total tuenh crowded. Also want to enjoy good reputation dummy is inviting you to visit two streets selling second oldest mannequin Ha Thanh Kiem and Ham Long Street.

Often there is less to remember the name Hoan Kiem Street by street name dummy. It is widely referred to as the shortest street in Hanoi Vietnam. Dummy dishes here are very Chinese sounding name like Long Vi Dung.

Learn new that most of the dummy row in this city are mostly descendants of the ancient Chinatown get selling seaweed for a living mannequin.

Mannequin on the composition here is nothing special. The thin fiber exhibits grated papaya, green and white, and yarn for added color carrots, dried beef cut into thin long slices, sprinkle a little extra water mixed bitter, sweet. Sprinkle roasted golden straw little touch up, a few leaves of herbs. Who liked it more spicy chili sauce spoon.

Special feature many familiar food in the shops this mannequin is made of dried beef elaborate. Rump or sirloin beef very fresh, carefully washed are soaked for a new cattle odors in a blender, just grind spices marinated medium spicy, salty, sweet.

Built, rolled beef, dried then fried up in hot fat old pan. New eating out using scissors to cut the meat into long slices. Beef must be mature enough, not long and can not put new good.

2. Banana flower dummy Tay Son

This is street food, you can go to the shops along the way Kim Lien, Vu Ngoc Phan. However, with the customary gourmet banana effigy mounds opposite Da (167 West Lane near the base) is best.

To shop mannequin near Da mound only slightly miserable time for parking, but also eat it from processing accounts. The effigies of both fleshy flesh has delicious, very delicious. Is so is because the formula "traditional" of all that Uncle. Pub sales from about 3pm to dusk is out of stock.

This dish is a true "Mixed", each one depending on your taste everything can be repurposed materials. If the dummy banana and aquaculture will reduce the household as shrimp meat, crab meat, shredded roasted squid.

Or add dried beef, bean sprouts, peanut roasting, pig ears, hearing rolls, green papaya small cells will be spell-like mannequin mannequin dish of beef. Or is that only the most gentle banana flower garlic vinegar mixed states.

But please say, many items may not be padded so delicious as the main material is banana flower contributes to 70% of the value of this dummy item. Banana flower is used to make effigies of banana-west, after flowering is about 10 complaints, many people go to the chamber materialized focused culture banana fruit.

3. Amazing with dummy Lim

The result is called dummy Lim very own creativity owner. Play the name was enough to want to beam right into the shop to learn and enjoy.
 
It turned out, the word "cell" is the owner of such von track dried beef with brown brown, looked like solid logs lim. Yet when using scissors or tear flesh out the hand muscles are very soft, crispy crackers, ate more fleshy and sweet charming mannequin marinated beef jerky.

Many have had to upland or to Laos, the North West can immediately recognize how the owner is very creative imitation buffalo meat hung kitchen and dried beef served with sticky rice of Laos.

According to this perspective, the owner will hong pieces of beef with wood and charcoal smoke. Hong time it takes one day. In addition to the meat to fresh air, the surface will have lost at least 2-3 days. To eat, bring flowers for drying the coal tender.

Lim dummy dishes here are more special by the presence of fried garlic, mixed with many other things such as stomach, heart, gizzard, liver ...
 
Each disc mannequin here 15,000 contract price, if you want to fully enjoy your call with a dozen discs cost from 40,000 to 50,000 dong.

If no street vendors in Hanoi Vietnam ...

Style street light and convenient transportation is no longer possible when street vendors but also means that Hanoi Vietnam will lose something which belonged to it.

A fun buying and selling stolen

If you say something to stick with all the people of the capital Hanoi as an inseparable part is that the street vendors. Street vendors under the basket the team was present dry bright "hot-noodle," "Xoi peanuts, coconut sticky rice, bread songs here," "Who's that hot bread rolls" ....; A light water dish: Burma, wheat, noodles, porridge .... warm the oil in a first kitchen burden rays; a main meal with a half-meter of the season, with constant water wave tank tofu ...; is little snacks warm bowl hungry between cheese-making day in the late summer cold, with cereal grains every collection of non green, with grapefruit peach, banana egg hoes, red berry pink ...; are the essential items like clothing, shoes, hats, scarves ... but also the food for filled with the spirit of useful reports, with tape, disk or bright flowers ...

We can say with all the needs of the guests lack of time in the context of such excess that the street vendors are widely considered to meet quite effective, and so from morning to night, from day to month, from year to year, street vendors deeply rooted in daily life habits of the people of this place.

Street vendors could warm her belly with a bowl of porridge labor vendors at the end of the night shift; to please her silk sold on Hang Gai in the early morning when the car flower shop just preparing to welcome guests; bring a smile Tell your prints so busy stirring reception should forget about trimming the nails yourself; for some of us Ha to the public his collar, tie, greeted each morning the first chip cups of green tea or a few days she skirts the office and still can not forget the dot end of the bowl of spicy sour sauce corner building sidewalks. Whether they are street vendors who all play a significant place in their daily lives.

They swooped on street vendors sometimes because of what they need done as well as just to have instilled in their moments of peace, of chaos, of recollection, of peace. So no wonder many buyers as sellers busy talk but forget to select goods, bargain all words and no extra money back because "I look too". Where to buy but not because that just invites forever, but not eat up put down. Image buyers surrounded burden straw vendors talk, laugh us Ha things that nothing related to that looks like this is not just a sale.

Sometimes things that are full of street vendors in the shop, but people still like the pear is the sidewalks. So a new conversation "was waiting for her to come over to peddle it back and ask," "the fat for you peddle it" ... Sometimes they pass between the relationship is simply the buying and traitor. If no street vendors did not make people think about at night craving grilled corn, old box nor mai make me remember the burning sensation beams, mango mix, not find warm atmosphere while surrounded by seaweed noodles burden in restaurants, the restaurants or the market place crowded, noisy. Street vendors sometimes gives people a feeling not easily seen.

Popular demand is removed

Written off street vendors means that tens of thousands of household businesses and millions of sidewalk vendors are unemployed. These are people that only with a basket, a pair of optical burdens, or to more than a coffee bike museum, leaving behind a house with their children cry eo dull the door to the city to find the next living.

With dirt-income foam, about one thousand to two dozen traveling all day do not know how many miles city, but the poor still determined to cling to this profession because of the essential needs of the family as a child, tuition, medical, or dream you change your life for college at the door .... They stick to their jobs because that is their only livelihood.

And as a corollary when the breadwinner who cut off this part are of course subject to their main customers, the common people, also carrier. Ask a medical leave to sell vegetables than ten thousand stars dare to eat a bowl of noodles in a row, she paid a few employees of the cool glass of water in drinks?

For those who retired as grandparents Dragon (Hong Ha Street, Hoan Kiem), the street vendors are best for them: "Just as we had VND5000 soup bowl just belly, do have any shops selling soup which entered the back side just to pay the price "chips coin three trenches" so. "

As for the workers as she Hau (Vinh Tuy, Hoang Mai) is working though the only song with a monthly salary based on the ke million, so this is understandable: "The minimum price for each flowers in the "shop" would be from 1,000 to 15,000 while the dollar amount of algae that if it is possible to buy enough flowers for the altar three plugs for my house on a full moon and then th.

"It is also not to mention hundreds of thousands of reasons to refuse the poor," says Ms. Yue, selling clothes in Hang Dao Street coal. "We're in the store all day I have no time to market or to the main shopping should be waiting on the street vendors over this burden. No street vendors, the different markets .... Puzzling. "

But Ms. Lan at Hang Da is assigned hearing "I do not need to buy expensive items should be on the best street vendors. Choose from comfortable to wear all this easily without fear of being chickened chickened that. "When to rent a shop or restaurant to open land, where this price must be higher than the peddlers is understandable, but with the income low, this is not easy.

And the nostalgia stopped subside

At the date of publication of the draft to remove street vendors, on the blogs of expatriates can be seen filled with nostalgia peddlers. Someone has to pay back suddenly recalled his feelings when you stand on foreign land: Looking at the four-wheel passenger vehicle hotdog bread or fruit in Washington, the pedicab carts selling boiled corn in Islamabad or the tray egg timber sold in the street walking to Melbourne gnawing memory of those who peddle in Hanoi with a flexible pole and poetic.

There are nights in the guest country suddenly remembered tears when the announcement the night in Hanoi. Some people find little joy among the old streets of Hanoi modern: "There are moments ... Hanoi is still very bright with a gift of green tea a sip of Your servants ... the kind of" public servants Ha Home "was also strange ... still tie, shirt still serious ... but it soars down the country to sell enough of that junk ... a wooden table ... a few wobbly stool ... but it looks unkempt so close ... bear some street vendors selling guava ... ... and a few weight after two meetings that result ... still exists ... because pieces rice ball out clothing ... because the job had become a habit ... or those who turned her burden basket team just want to preserve what nature brings "Hanoi" ... "

Burden of bureaucracy rong side of the roof tile color intensive drool over time is the image of Hanoi in poetry, in painting and now it still retains the beauty of simplicity that it's romantic. East of warm optical double burden was on the track fragrant fresh bread, cassava tubers are slightly hot. To spring training with the petals, rose, lily dew on wet nights. Thu through the calm quiet of the doa yellow daisies, floral scent of thousands of nuggets round, red berries, bananas, eggs hoe. House to equal burden "crap town" cool, sweet lotus scent blocking every street corner ... that exist in Hanoi for a long time and so royal traveler Hanoi problem with bit of countryside in the heart of the city.

By some simple but sometimes love just smile sometimes dim white hat of a lady peddlers, so weary smile that spread the feeling of relaxing. Yet it's no wonder what took the whole group of foreign tourists enjoy surround a burden on the teacher code of Silver City, pay 4, 5 dollars just to take a picture of the burden of some banana or pineapple girl serving customers on the west side the lake, turn before turning later to shoot scenes for the flower girl bear thick ice between a road vehicle, and three drunken masturbation miscellaneous food on pavements. Foreign tourists to Hanoi to always find some old street love beauty and idyllic, rural place of capital into this but with the modern streets of Hanoi gradually, if not also the burden Hanoi street vendors will make people remember by what?

Hanoi Vietnam - City night

Night gradually let go. The sky was black, a color chasms mystery. Some faint starlight lone bright sun corner. From above looking down at night in Hanoi Vietnam as a stream is moving in a myriad of electric lights flashing. High pressure range of light into long streaks of yellow, white cross on the city together. People crossing the line beneath the road, all the movements in rhythmic harmony night in Hanoi.
Not as exciting wild flowers of the Saigon night, not a sad character discreet, wary as the night the ancient capital on the Perfume River, not tiny like the night flower in Hoi An, Hanoi has a night distinctions very attractive. When the big clock in the Hoan Kiem lake is only 0 hours, breathing is of life. Hanoi does not have moments of sleep. Millions of capital was lit up thousands of lights, colors shimmering in the night. These people build cities prolonged work.

Night is the continuation of the day. The life of man, but a third finite time was spent sleeping. Live, work day is not enough, one has to live the night. Discover the colors of the night in Hanoi see the true value of time is gold. Sleepless nights of those who defend the Capital. Hard night's work for tomorrow's engineers for the city a creative idea. Colors of Hanoi night interspersed between modern and ancient. Where noisy night discotheque. Dim night where communities and in particular black coffee. Romantic night where the flower market, vegetable market. Weary night of the sweeper. Night of the light absorbed inside pages. Night foster human intelligence. The quiet little sweat in the night. Night quiet corner where there are lovers in ecstasy unknown to kiss the dew is quietly dropped.

The space is purged overnight softer, purer. Perfume is a scent of the night of nature. The aroma of the soil deposited in trees, on flowers. The aroma of sun radiating down into the gentle breezes dishes haired man. Nguyen Du passionate night flower smelling milk, sugar pearls Youth fragrant incense spreads. And then a vague scent made me waste sitting here wondering, doubt and wonder. Just go on the streets during the day was, how superficial chaos of our lives do not realize. No night time waking up the scent natural gift for Thang Long thousand years of civilization.

Night Hanoi - Thang Long nights. On the night mirror lake peaceful calm as from thousands of years ago. Looking to the Turtle Tower, sparkling lights reflecting into the lake. In the dim light at night this is where the ball of the Le boat to enjoy, where the ball is hidden golden turtle. Night of the legendary and now, what I saw ahead as real as dreaming. Night adventure into realms as opposite Hanoi's rotation period. Still hear the sound of the domestic: English cricket cry worms, wind, vague as a growing drumbeat in the text of Thach Lam ... A Hanoi harmony between classical and modern. The watch on Lake Shore Post Office marks each moment of the night, the time step move slowly. Long night ... Quiet night in the old town dreaming. Night taciturn in Quan Thanh temple, gold knock up a steady beat as the birth of mankind. Immerse yourself in a night of Hanoi, in the mysterious night fragrance to any heart. Remember the memories ...

Night in Hanoi Vietnam

Who has been to the capital should be a walk at night in Hanoi Vietnam to learn more about the streets and the people here. Hanoi has a shimmering, just quiet, peaceful.

When the street lights up, transfer Hanoi at night. All roads, bright street lights, as Hanoi adorn more sparkling, brilliant. In the ancient streets, Luong Van Can, Hang H, Hang Dao, Hang Ma, who crowded the streets walking, some people visit the store to buy souvenirs and just feel the space of the ancient streets of Hanoi Noi. Youth On the way, Quang Trung, Nguyen Du, or along the West Lake, Truc Bach Lake, Hoan Kiem Lake, the other young people hanging about here to relax, enjoy the cool, the beauty of nature at night.

You Tram Anh Nguyen, student of Hanoi Vietnam University of Culture said: "Ha Noi at night by lamp light is on, with a gentle beauty, quiet, quaint and elegant. During the day the people are very busy traveling, vehicles that are deserted at night again, seems to Hanoi quiet. Sitting in rows of benches around the Lake can retreat to reflect many things in life. "

Nocturnal animals are also features of Hanoi. The ancient streets to the newly opened path, have food the night. From the sweet fragrance of boiled corn, baked potato with strong until the bowl of chicken soup up the aggregate.

Better known perhaps to mention the noodles. To the capital but not to eat noodles in cold weather will not understand what they regarded as Hanoi. Pho broth is delicious and not in fresh rice noodles do not need much, less spicy chili, several branches of flowers, a few slices of fresh lemon made a suspect untouched pho smoke, choking sweet anise flavor. This dish has left strong impression on many people.

Mr. Le Quoc Cuong, a native of Thanh Hoa in Hanoi worker said: "At work the night shift, I usually eat noodles and very tasty. I think Hanoi is probably the most delicious beef noodle soup, there are very personal and unique attractions. "

Late night, light power from the small alley to ease sneezing with in the night dew. The house tilted balls connected together, listening can feel the gentle sound of falling particles King night dew on the leaves. Lost in space was quiet, somewhere, commonplace language of joint insects, weary announcement of the gift she sold her the night: "Who bread, this song / Who do hot bread".

Far away, quietly echoing broom sweeper hours the night of the sanitation workers. Ms. Nguyen Thi Hau, the second worker, factory work, Cau Giay urban, environmental Corporation Thang Long, said: "Normally, we ca 3 from 17 pm to 2 am, with the day to 4 -5 am. Determination of this hard work, the Tet holidays rarely stay home with her husband, but I arrange, sort of to secure her husband at home. "

Hanoi does not stay the night, on all roads, bicycles, motorcycles all left back down. In the wholesale market, the trading hours coil. More brilliant, even more romantic than a night flower market Publicity. Regardless sultry summer nights or bitter cold winter night, flower market was still colorful. The florist from Bac Ninh, Vinh Phuc, Tay Tuu flower market on Publicity for sale. From here the traders will put flowers on the tilt.

Night in Hanoi, the sparkling night lights, night life span of noisy streets, the night of the ordinary man struggling for his livelihood. Hanoi is also the night the night deposit of lasting cultural value with time. One night flower market, a restaurant could not sleep, an announcement disappear into the small streets, a lake breeze is enough time for people to feel peaceful space of Hanoi. /.

Hanoi Vietnam city nocturnal

Pho Hanoi is good everywhere, regardless of the peri-urban or downtown. Want to eat a good night's pho Hanoi Vietnam is probably nowhere in the noodle shop in the old town. It's pho Trade Ly Quoc Su, Pho Tu Do Street Bridge Wood, Thin Lo Duc Pho, pho falling from the cave and Hang Ma, eat it very late to Item Sails.

Some dishes overnight cheap, tasty and easy to eat such as beef noodle, vermicelli diaphragm, chicken soup at the door ... Nam, Tran Quy Cap station, Hai Ba Trung street or alley Yellow Christ.

You should not ignore the Forbidden City just warm. Fill with soup and pepper, chili powder with warm onion will do the middle of the night. Fried rice in this city, and Hang Ma May Street Oil is also very tasty. Among the dishes the night in Hanoi, almost everyone wants to try dishes dry cow mannequin in Ho Hoan Kiem. A bit of papaya, grated carrots, sliced ​​beef jerky as dark fiber chan vinegar, marjoram and sprinkle a little extra touch is delicious roasted crushed the very popular price.

At the top of Hang Gai - Luong Van Can has nearly 20 of grilled squid. 5-7 buyer crowd several small squid, a bottle of wine as they can be rai until morning. Few feet restaurant grilled chicken, boiled chicken at Hang Dau, Mai Hac ... then crowded all year round. Along Lan Ong Street, Wood Street Bridge, no bun thang, any noodle mix, no wheat bread zebra pate candidly and fragrant aroma, crunchy brittle. In the corner of our bridges choking sweet grilled beef. If not on the Pho Duc Chinh also eat delicious grilled beef. Eat it, run to the food so mediocre fried nem chua, through the President to Fill glass beams or fruit cup caramel climb as Hang Than greasy, look at the comedy store Pham By eating hot cup cakes floating vessel.

Hanoi at night there are other folk dishes snacks sold grilled seasonal patterns such as corn, boiled snails, turning hot, banana cake ... Wandering the streets of Hanoi in the night and sip a little collection of individual taste in the wet Hanoi is actually one of the most interesting thing to land this thousand years of civilization.

Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi Vietnam beautyful

Referring to Hanoi is Hoan Kiem Lake we always think of Asia. The symbol of the capital blind thousand years of civilization, is also associated with the stories and legends about the lake who charged sword (Sword Lake), too. Any case, who also visit to Hanoi Vietnam to visit Hoan Kiem Lake to see the lazy ultramarine blue, the lake is a sacred turtle tower, reddish Huc bridge, Ngoc Son temple far away is the Holy Church again that Tran Hung Dao.

Hoan Kiem Lake as beautiful as a bouquet in the heart of the city. The same people who once listened to Hoan Kiem Lake to talk about the eternal beauty of the lake. Female writers of Federal Republic of Germany Annaliese Wulf: "Who never once to Lake, stroll around the Lake, Lake scenery, have not heard about the legendary turtle, considered not to Hanoi, Vietnam not to."

Hoan Kiem Lake may be older than the ancient Thang Long capital, and given many names: Ho Luc Thuy Ta Vong lake, Organic Hope, Lake Marine Force ...

"Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi - Vietnam as a military giant lamp pull. The surf in the car together and hurry, hurry with an invisible life force push. Hoan Kiem Lake - the lamp he pulled troops back on forever , go with the flow forever endless time ... " (The journalist Anian Xon)

Road around the lake with high trees and run around the Turtle Tower has created a beautiful landscape; even in the rain particles thick and landscape is very beautiful Hoan Kiem Lake.

Here is The Huc bridge, thereby leading to Ngoc Son temple sacred. The name meant to catch the morning light remains.

Wooden bridge, wooden bridge supports, denies the truth, free pins on the lake, there are handrails of crossed words, divided into small square box that's almost like you have a festival artist.

The bridge paint, such as silk train, squeezed through the blue waters of Hoan Kiem Lake beside the willow, phoenix freak, fairy scene, noisy streets connect with Ngoc Ngoc Son Temple on the island of tranquility

This is where the Church of the Holy Tran Hung Dao and the meaning of his who had sacrificed, sacrificing themselves for the country.

A stroll around Hanoi, admire the beauty of Hanoi is the collection and return to the Sword Lake - the city's green lung to see a peaceful and quiet still reigns in the town where this noise.

Sip coffee town Hanoi Vietnam

The Hanoi drink coffee much, more accurately, the animal is sitting sipping coffee as a habit hard to quit. Every morning, at last opened his eyes to the end of the day late into the night, almost at a cafe in Hanoi Vietnam, also see image people glued to the newspapers scented coffee.

Ancient city on weekends. The sidewalk cafes seem more crowded on weekdays. Attraction of the sidewalk cafe is not by cheap (10.000d/coc) which is probably because people here feel so comfortable. They read the newspaper and sip coffee, talk, look at the streets ... Maybe there is also a way to release stress after a week of work stress. Nearly habits that ...

City Coffee Co, City of Gai, is not quite dead so who knows raised. First Hang Gai is No. 5 Hang Gai, shop high-end gold jewelry super nice. Lecture followed by coffee, again as a home to several shops selling handicrafts, silk clothing, water puppets, souvenirs for other U.S. overseas. In this store has an entrance to the deep well depth, which is the entrance to the Old Quarter coffee on the floor 2, floor 3 and floor 4. On the top floor with view overlooking the lake, always very nice!

The difference between coffee Saigon and Hanoi's cafes ... just in Hanoi, such as coffee, coffee beans, coffee Lecturer, coffee Ding ... Same stone as black coffee, but coffee smells burning special commendation. Notorious, but compelling, drinking is getting out once and remember forever ... Instructors are also in coffee is coffee special egg - a creative combination between a pure Vietnamese drink a bold European style. Or more interesting finding is the way to coffee and Ding in the range of the pair - a backpack with a small niche on the staircase leading up, and a balcony looking directly down the Hoan Kiem Lake.

In the hot summer day, can drink a cup of coffee "black", "rock" or "brown stone" for relaxation and clarity. Autumn, winter sipping hot coffee untouched smoke to heart warmer.

If people prefer Saigon many different types of coffee, the Ha Noi "gourmet" coffee regular coffee only loyal to "rustic". "Jupiter" is only a single type of coffee beans, not roasted nor, nor roasted with butter, add cocoa or any other flavoring. Coffee is just coffee.

Egg "Ngai Cuu" between HaNoi Vietnam streets

The bored without the greasy, fatty membrane that throne groggy spicy hot spicy eggs to soothe the former has so many hungry hearts of those who are suddenly busy travel on crowded streets of Hanoi Vietnam.

Does not know how ever, the Hanoi familiar with images of her sales are only one or a pair of optical lane tre burden throughout the streets to sell eggs only the former. The young and small but contains enough "supplies" for a delicious dish that due to folk: small gas stove, eggs, sage research, blueberries, green chilli, pepper ... That's all, she wore sale young and carefree on the shoulders, walking through the ancient streets of contemplation that sell their special dishes. Also, if you want to sell a few items such as duck eggs or hamburgers flipped the switch to optical left shoulder. Visitors to Hanoi so far away the shoulder fascinated with street vendors dishes like stomach lining between sessions.
Distrust between sessions
From her street vendors there, the former chicken eggs become familiar. They preferred the taste of the former bar bar melted in eggs, sour tart tongue with spicy berries juice salt and pepper. Became sage egg dishes at breakfast, lunch, afternoon snacks of many people. Liked being able to eat day after day without tired. The consistency of sidewalks added to the dishes on the menu is simple and easy to just how quickly this way our customers.
Visit any restaurant in any corner "playboy" of Hanoi, you will see the pictures so insanely loved by the former chicken eggs. Husband north kitchen, stacking chairs for guests, clean tidy car. The wife always hand beating eggs, give up the pan, just stir in need drainage, just talk to our customers, both prepared with salt and pepper mixed berries, processing less vinegar, add pieces of fresh chilli ... The restaurant did not have nameplates that everyone knows what items are being sold by the smell of eggs frying on the stove when the former is extremely attractive and can not go anywhere as well.
The taste was so that the display color to dishes that diners drive Hungry for more. Two yellow-green tangerine wrap intertwined real loss. Salesperson skill stir frying medium crispy crust that has fat fleshy, is looking to eat. When eaten, they have just seen that crisp tan sweet tart sour spicy soft again, our customers only the tasty compliment.
Customers love to eat because the taste of the dish, just out of habit and convenience, but to also see. In the morning, many people consider the former egg breakfast dish gently. In the afternoon when the frequency, the parents pick their children in the interim to help feed hungry while waiting for the rice. Then the girls, the sister city shopping or eel, eat one, two results for happy mouth.
Food remedies
Look back, Made in the right periods is a fertile land to grow food culture. From the simplest of materials, local residents have also created a simple dish that is very subtle. Wormwood which did not rescue strangers in folklore. It is a medicinal as well as skin care and cosmetics as well. The former is the throne of him, slightly bitter, with additional eggs just delicious. How to make it very easy and fast. First get a handful of the former, finely chopped, then mixed with egg, then bit into the frying pan until golden color of the fried eggs were reclining on the green leaves of wormwood is being saved.
It was not natural that this dish is the favorite sister. Not only delicious, nutritious eggs that the former effect blood flow to the brain helps treat headaches. What's more interesting when the streets run east and the onset of fatigue due to work brought a delicious dish? No cost to fifteen minutes to stop, you've cleared the headaches and recharge energy.
For pregnant women, the eggs the former work an excellent contraceptive. The new sisters "through labor" this dish is also selected as a wonder drug recovery effort. By the bitter throne seat of the former when fried with eggs just disappear, replaced by cool man very sweet to eat, maybe agreeable to you the most difficult.
The former egg dish is easy to find raw materials, is easy to do in a short time increasingly popular. Many people do this stuff at home, but has to admit something missing that you eat is not satisfied as if she ate of the street vendors or shop of the sidewalk. Also strange is that material, the method was, affordable street is missing something? No one to explain, just know one day one familiar with the idea that the former egg dishes of all drugs Hanoi streets.

Cyclo - Hanoi Vietnam mark

Cyclo is a unique means of Hanoi. Image leisurely trishaw on the old town, the atmosphere create more taciturn, the ancient streets of Hanoi Vietnam with the quiet character, charm pedicabs has created an impressive individual and unique as only Hanoi new.

Cyclo - motorized vehicles that have long become part of the cultural and spiritual life and labor of the people of Hanoi.

Downs cyclo Hanoi

Cyclo in Vietnam in the years of his gong country by war and poverty. More than a century ago, when the stretcher, palanquin is no longer a vehicle of the Vietnamese more common, people began to move to trailers. In Indochina, few wagon appeared first in Hanoi in 1883 by the First Governor General Bonnal He has allowed Japan to bring from the past.

After the first bike was born, there came the tricky hooking it into the back of the wagon, so that the pedicab was born, plays an important role in the presence of civilization .

So far, the Japanese, the Americans also give evidence that their invention of the first cabs in 1868 or 1848 due to the Blacksmith to follow orders of the church.

In two of the nation struggle, pedicabs became powerful means of production and service of combat: the transport of goods in places where cars can not go; passenger evacuation, transporting wounded soldiers to the place of emergency , carrying the fire-fighting, carrying ammunition and weapons to the battlefield ...
For Hanoi, is considered the place where pride, elegance, where the depth of cultural history, the cyclo is considered a separate definition, by its association with culture, linked to the history, way of life of land of a thousand years and thus in a corner of the image of Hanoi has a section for the cabs.

Cyclo - Hanoi's gift

Referring to Hanoi, the Old Town is like referring to those where there is no beauty. That is the short street, romantic and lyrical, is floral milk, pork may be a strange feeling, is the traditional gift, a sacred character tinged bass history ... And absence of cyclo tourism on the old town, it would be impossible to bear!It is to persuade people with an image of a young woman old Hanoi, flowing dress, hand strap sitting on a small squeeze cyclo leisurely walk around the neck. Or pair of bride and groom dress, turban, sitting on a cyclo spiritual leader protein is home to over 36 streets, bringing a luxurious, elegant in the daily life of old Hanoi.
Between the crowded streets, the cabs are walking slowly and comfort, as a point to make city streets more charming nature. Mr. Hoang Cao Thang, Director of Culture and Tourism said: "If you visit Rome not ride horses, not by train to Paris Stock shall not have to travel; so travel to Hanoi's Old Quarter customers have to go a new cyclo tourist town. ". Because cabs are very suitable medium and hard to replace in the Old Quarter of Ha Thanh.

 Today, with the motto of cheap, convenient, friendly and comfortable cabs are usually chosen as international travelers transportation when visiting Hanoi. Want to visit the old town with narrow streets and short, somewhat without sidewalks, may not have any convenient means such as cyclo. Guests feel very comfortable as sitting on a lounge chair and watch the city agreed health professional, a busy market area of ​​the "three six streets of Hanoi."

Therefore, pedicabs have become a familiar part of the ancient city, became a mark engraved in the tourists coming to the four Hanoi.

Transient cyclo sad ...
Currently, the city has four companies providing travel services cyclo is Sans Souci, Huy Phong, Hotel Metropole and cultural tourism company, with 264 units being granted registration. The fact that number is greater than the amount of work pedicabs despite very strong, causing turmoil in the business, transporting tourists.

Also undeniable is that, while the streets of Hanoi, especially the old town area is tight, crowded transport, sense of observance of the provisions of the pedicabs drivers are limited so cyclos have sometimes contributed to obstructing traffic and caused many troubles for pedestrians soot. That's not to mention the trishaw riders, especially cyclo still unsettled whether guest, not a pretty picture for tourists to the capital.
Therefore, to improve the situation and make a healthy contingent of cyclo ensure security and order in town, and in need of strong measures for victims cyclo though.

At the same time, these businesses form cyclo tourism should have regular educational programs cyclo drivers to strictly implement the provisions in the road and communicate with our customers to image the cyclos travel impress well with tourists coming to Hanoi.

Season pillow cake in Hanoi Vietnam

The winter season is also known as pillow cake Hanoi. Perhaps no one ever came to Hanoi Vietnam in the winter but not impressed with street food, including small corner pillows sold delicious cakes.
 Mild weather in Hanoi last month still adhered floral milk, dry wind pigs may have replaced the cold se se gently pat the skin ... Wednesday weather makes people more love into the ancient land of Ha Thành , the feeling that cravings can sit in the corner ro roadside stands to enjoy spicy food spicy hot.

Pillow cake is usually sold in the fresh salty cake shop and many other specialties, such as turning into a hot Ha, bread, baked chicken legs ... But sometimes become a light snack, available in restaurants . By bread pillows, many famous streets of Hanoi, became more familiar: a cake knee Ly Quoc Su, Chew Hoe streets pillow cake, Luong Van Can Street ...
It gets cold, from restaurants to popular restaurants, shops and roadside toad began to "run" menu of salty cakes, pastries - the dish is hot enough, warm enough, attractive enough in the cold . Among them, the bread is known as the first pillow cake winter, rustic cuisine of Hanoi. Whether adult or child, student or students, employees or manual workers ... anyone who can cross the knee donut shop and enjoy the three miles. Also by this, I say this season is the season pillow cake Hanoi.
Early in December, a small corner shop in Hanoi pillow cake again crowded than ever. They appear to be "viable" only after the first rush of cold spell. Winter is the season to service, hard season, the owners of the bumper and also the most ideal season to enjoy a real customer favorite pie is.
Once the cake shops on Ly Quoc Su pillow, I was surprised by the visitors come here not only students, young Vietnamese people but also many foreign visitors. According to her owner named Oanh, foreign visitors after a walk to visit the old town used to look to enjoy specialty shops pillow cake. They travel in groups of three miles, but sometimes to eat alone. After enjoying a few bread also buy the gift.
Cake mix of your knees are crunchy crust, and aromatic, add the human Mixed bread. To eat delicious cake at the new hot - it is also the reason for selling cakes only when it's cold.
Human knee wheel includes only three ground pork, black mushrooms, vermicelli, carrots or chopped cents trenches, along with many other spices such as onion, pepper ... Many owners believe that as human pillow cake fairly simple, just chopped all the ingredients and mix together, soak for 5-7 minutes is the package.
However, new crust and sauce are the main factors creating characteristics of the gear in each store. Therefore, the crowded bakery pillows often separate a crust secrets. It's like kneading stages, spreads, bread dough that are thin and flexible but.
Like many other traditional dishes such as Pho Hanoi rolls, spring rolls, bread rolls ear ... It also needs special sauce served with mixed picky. Sauce should be a bit salty, sweet, slightly sour and definitely not used to mix the fish sauce.
All the components that make up the flavor of traditional cakes, "Ha Noi winter gear" though not famous, but also has been attached, the more attractive this year Ha Thanh. And I think no one loves food in the street Ha Thanh never eat bread to enjoy playing this folk.
If you are in Hanoi Vietnam, find a pillow cake shops along the old town area. I believe there are enjoying pillow cake in weather like this, you feel enough new beauty in the land of winter Chang'an.

There is a "style of Hanoi" in Saigon

According to the orphans who come from more than 700 years ago, according to the historical volatility of the XVIII to the XX century, the Thang Long - Hanoi Vietnam in the "great migration" has settled in the land of the South.

There is a "style of Hanoi" in Saigon

 And about 100 years from now, in Saigon has three "lines" of people from Hanoi three phases: before 1954, in 1954 and 1975. Whatever the stage, the Hanoi over Saigon there are differences. Typically, voice and way of life "very tight economic period." It was the pure life back, humble, elegant but ancient Pham Dinh Ho had praised the "Vu Trung custom pen": "popular medieval custom of climate, people communicate with each other daily mean tolerance , simple, keep the practice of humility. If anyone has anything to fly, they just know that people fear ridicule. Such as those related to family, country and those who prefer their children play it back rong, of course not dare interfere. If there are any guys that do not follow to be polite, then they become old women take home pay in the underground sex commandment to protect children. "

The voice of Hanoi is the standard language of communication: light, precise but hidden inside the luxury and refinement. Maybe so, but later in 1975, the television station in Ho Chi Minh and the Voice of Ho Chi Minh People are newscaster voice Hanoi. An information icon "official", an expression of affection for the capital Saigon, Hanoi with people living and working in Ho Chi Minh.

But the most remarkable is the cuisine has to take the family's kitchen Saigon. "Ha Noi Supermarket" in Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi as a miniature of that season, from the leaves, "Lang basil," maggot fruit, coffee oil to the stem cells tomorrow, bread crumb ... More specifically , starting in 1975, Saigon Tet more color to Hanoi - Nhat Tan peach color. Bich Dao has beautiful rounded petals, petal color, blazing up themselves attractive, thin wings fade during training, blushing, shy virtual wild.

The Hanoi in SaigonBolting as a challenge of Hanoi when trying to integrate an open city, many cultural lines introduced as Saigon. Hanoi people live and do business not the same as the fierce Saigon, not "innocent" as a hard southwest but passionate, hardworking and always after careful forethought.

Concentration of residents is Thang Long residential K300, Quarter 4, Ward 12, Tan Binh District. May see this as a "excerpts" of Hanoi in the South. A Hanoi quiet, romantic and old silver of land from the home's period architecture brings old soul. No loud music xinh bust, which is ca tru tone gold strike. No flashy gaudy restaurants bustle of a multitude, which is pretty small shop like every country or cutting the burden of expansion. In this town on Tet days, there is a very strange market, communication that has existed for hundreds of years: Market line. Cho meets only a few days before Tet, sell all the line, crackers giang was brought from the North to, used to pack Cake "Lang Lieu".

Hanoi - Saigon is now almost no gap in nostalgia, as well as by the public impression that the Capital Business has honored, loved and preserved during the integration with the South.

Hanoi ancient city in the heart of foreigners

Many foreigners who first arrived in Hanoi Vietnam old town feel uncomfortable even afraid to touch worried foot in the streets bearing the names akin, horizontal vertical, cluttered with dozens of stores the same product category, the roadside restaurant who crowded into the place, or the flow of air and car travel, such as questions loom.

But that feeling passes gradually replaced by the love has destroyed when they realize life is full of people bustling Hanoi, energetic, constantly moving but also very romantic with the girls turn fresh flowers adorned additional burden beauty of Hoan Kiem Lake in the heart of the city.

Street
Chantrelle Nielson, American girl spent nearly a year in Hanoi Old Quarter as at first she was scared when walking in town because they can not go on the sidewalk and feel like you're having a car dies. "The street names are too confusing and too difficult to remember. Every walk in the street, I felt like trying to swim in a river flowing. "
You also can not stand in any position which sees the city as this would stop other people, and noise, the results are crazy, Chantrelle said. "But you have found a 'pass,' you can there all day just to watch the activity occurs. The most interesting thing on the old town is seated in the restaurant or cafe on the floor two or three that look at the people, cars, houses were roofed porch with the birds singing in cages, and daily life of the family around them - that's where the most vivid I've ever been to. "

Hanoi's Old Quarter, known prosaically as the 36 streets, situated on an area of ​​100 hectares in Hoan Kiem district, Hanoi city center, surrounded by top city in the North, Hang Bong, Hang Gai, Cau in the south, Tran Nhat Duat-Tran Quang Khai in the west and east Phung Hung.

General Characteristics of the ancient streets, many street names beginning with the word "goods", followed by a word only a certain profession, such as Hang Bac, Hang Ma, Hang Tin, Hang Chieu Street which ... also noisy, bustling trading scene, working as a miniature village. As to Hang Tin, you will hear the tingling sound hammer religious pieces, pieces of tin sparkling white, the image will encounter tin workers committed to the wood from small to large appliances such as vacuum tube, barrel, pots, scoop, trunk, water tank ...

In his book "The dragon on the roof - a year in Vietnam," Carol Howland writers have commented: "Walking in Hanoi 36 streets like weaving their way in a bowl of noodles." As I receipt of Carol, though seven centuries have passed, but each city seems bold of a village, where the life of community and traditional high is transmitted from generation to generation other.

Carol Payne, an American student traveling to Vietnam, said at first feeling upon entering the old quarter in stark contrast with what is most pleasant to sit under the green canopy of the patio outside the restaurant Au Lac , immediately after the Metropole Hotel, which sip coffee and talk with friends.

"When walking north on the old town, the road begins to change and not zigzag in any one direction does. The Vietnam I could not see the compass directions in North America as people usually do. In fact, they could not give me directions on a map. Unhelpful to say that I'm in the south of Hoan Kiem district, "laments Carol.
But then, after a few weeks to get used to the streets in Vietnam, Carol was able to walk without carrying a map. "If you get lost, I would jump on a motorcycle taxi and they address only to go home. But also the beauty lost. The very last time I felt the endless experience of Hanoi. There is an abundance of detail, both architecture and human life; temples, street vendors, small streets, markets and roadside cafes and even more, "Carol said excitedly.

Old Town, very special for Carol. It's like a general department store giant, with the area where traders and craftsmen with a commodity business - which she can not see the United States. Besides the buildings bearing ancient architecture of France, the high-rise commercial buildings could suddenly see a pavilion, a temple hidden deep in the small alley. It's a beautiful culture of the people of Vietnam.

David Lowe, an expert in English Revised Version 36, from Liverpool, said: "I love walking down the street because they are really alive. Hanoi is the best place I ever lived where I felt really live. Especially the old town, there are so many things happen there, just stopped 5 minutes time you'll see. Ancient city of Hanoi to bring many traits, more charm, making it come alive and remind everyone that their mind lives in a truly dynamic city, where people hustle for everyday life, and sounds, and smells what the eye sees, all extraordinarily vivid. "

Hanoi, as Chantrelle commented "it is very beautiful with many trees and lakes ... looks as if nature wants to recapture his own area in the city."

Burden street vendors and roadside stands
Foreigners who come to Ha noi as caught up in a land of endless dishes, from traditional food of Vietnam, such as bun cha, noodles, fish soup, noodles and fish ... in the small restaurant on the sidewalk, to the burden fighting street vendors selling duck eggs, fried bread, noodles and nuts, bean sauce noodles and shrimp, crab and vermicelli mix.

In order to serve foreign tourists, the restaurants gradually coming up with all kinds of food imported from abroad as French toast, pasta and pizza of Italy, Japanese sushi, green curry chicken or Thai hot pot, steak French market or Korean kimchi.

"I never miss meals because the West can find real French bread in Vietnam, even much better than those you can buy in the U.S. ... I can tell to many more places that I remember - I think I could eat five more years in Vietnam but also can not discover all the great food here. I also enjoyed the rice wine, "Chantrelle said.
She said she could not forget the food in Hanoi. Vietnamese food in America, but most do well with Southern style and taste. Chantrelle said the U.S. is not selling bun cha, her favorite dish. She also loves pho in town, Truc Bach book, or hot fish soup with fennel. The sultry summer day is the most popular Chantrelle eat grapefruit, dragon fruit and watermelon - the most delicious fruit that she buys her burden of street vendors.
And David, the British guy, he is the most popular grilled pork. Dried meat and aromatic flesh is yellow nursery smell of smoke. The most amazing thing when walking in the city of Hanoi can be stopped anywhere to buy seaweed, something of unique gifts that can not be everywhere.

The feeling remains
The most interesting thing in Hanoi for foreign visitors, according to David, the people here. Without them, any city in the world is just the streets, buildings inanimate. "I really enjoyed in Hanoi, its vibrant, noisy, bustling, attractive, every scene, every person you meet here every day ... I feel so welcome."

As for Chantrelle, the best thing in her mind up about this city is looking at all the activities happening on the streets and enjoy the unique flavor of the dish in Hanoi.

For her, as well up all sources of energy, the energy of a rising economy are strong, where people hustle everyone, even struggling to earn a living, but also each step richer, more prosperous. /.