Au Trieu Street: Grilled spring rolls
Grilled spring rolls are an addictive snack for anyone right after the first taste. Au Trieu Street is a good suggestion. Many people jokingly call this street the "grilled spring roll capital" of Hanoi. For more than ten years, this place has been famous and left a mark in the hearts of diners with its famous grilled spring rolls.
Grilled nem chua here has a bright pink color of meat, with a sticky glue coating on the outside, grilled directly on charcoal. Grilled nem is charred on the charcoal, giving off a delicious aroma, best eaten while hot.
In addition to grilled spring rolls, diners can order fried sour spring rolls, fried potatoes, beef fish, green mango, and quench their thirst with a glass of cool lemon tea. On cool autumn days in Hanoi, enjoying the Au Trieu grilled spring roll combo is a suitable experience.
Hang Bo Street: Grilled Squid
Evening is when the “squid mats” on Hang Bo sidewalk open for business, peaking after 10pm, selling until 2-3am. On the deserted sidewalk, diners sit on the mats laid out, sipping on fragrant grilled squid.
When customers order, the dried squid is grilled over charcoal until cooked, then pounded thoroughly until fluffy and soft. Finally, it is shredded into many small squid strands and arranged on a plate. Sweet grilled squid dipped in spicy chili sauce is a favorite dish of many people.
The shops all serve drinks, fresh fruit and a variety of snacks such as fried spring rolls, french fries, catfish, yellowstripe scad... Grilled squid costs about 200,000 VND/piece, depending on size.
Gam Cau Street: Grilled Beef
Gam Cau Street is imprinted in the hearts of diners in the capital as a street associated with many roadside grilled food shops.
Grilled food here is sold in sets or a la carte. Each set will be full of dishes such as tripe, beef, pork belly, beef rolls with mushrooms, grilled intestines... All the food is marinated with spices. The tender pieces of meat are grilled with butter on a cast iron pan, lined with foil, giving off a fragrant aroma that is hard to resist.
Tender, flavorful grilled dishes dipped in kumquat spice sauce or sweet and sour tamarind sauce, served with crispy buttered bread are truly delicious.
Although the grilled restaurants here are all sidewalk eateries, they always attract a large number of diners because of their delicious flavors and cheap prices, only about 100,000 - 150,000 VND/person.
Hang Hom Street: Chicken Pho
In the evening, the 100m long street named Hang Hom transforms itself, becoming a stopover for many food lovers who love chicken pho. The street has 3 or 4 chicken pho shops, especially mixed chicken pho. In addition to pho, diners can also order bun thang, chicken sticky rice, pho, chicken salad, boneless chicken feet, porridge...
Chicken pho and chicken sticky rice shops... on Hang Hom are almost always full of customers, sometimes customers even have to wait for a table.
The dishes are rated by diners as delicious and reasonably priced. Restaurants usually open from 5pm to 11pm, priced from 30,000 VND/portion.
Hoan Kiem Lake Street: Salad
Hoan Kiem Lake is one of the shortest streets in the capital, but there are 3-4 salad shops selling salad. Diners often jokingly call it "Salad Street". In addition to the familiar dried beef salad, the shops also sell bird salad, spring rolls, tapioca dumplings...
Each bowl of beef salad here will have beef jerky, char siu, tendons, thinly sliced meat and beef spleen. Price is about 35,000 VND/bowl to eat on the spot, take away from 40,000 - 50,000 VND/serving.
Salad shops are always crowded with people from morning to night. Customers fill the space from inside to the sidewalk, most crowded in the evening.
