Striker Nguyen Xuan Son and his wife have a passion for Vietnamese street food. One of his family's favorite dishes is fried banana cakes.
Every afternoon when he comes home from school, Xuan Son stops at a banana cake truck near a high school to buy some to eat. When in Hanoi to treat her injury, the wife of the striker born in 1997 had to find a delicious banana cake seller to buy for her husband.
Recently, in a match of Nam Dinh at Thien Truong Stadium, the moment Xuan Son ate a banana cake and watched the match go "viral" (fast spread and popular) on social networking platforms.
Unlike Xuan Son, midfielder Nguyen Quang Hai's favorite dish is pho. When coach Park Hang-seo was still leading the Vietnam team, Quang Hai and Duy Manh had invited Mr. Park to eat beef stew many times. This is also a favorite dish of Korean strategists in the S-shaped land.
In addition, Quang Hai's mother also revealed another dish that he really likes, boiled chicken. Before getting married, every time he came home, the 28-year-old striker often told his mother to make boiled chicken to eat.
Similar to his senior, midfielder Nguyen Hai Long also likes to eat boiled chicken. On his personal page, Hanoi FC players also showed off their skillful chicken cutting skills
Meanwhile, striker Van Toan likes to eat balut and pork rolls. Every time he sets foot in Da Nang, the player born in 1996 often enjoys pork rolling rice paper and posts it on his personal page.
For central defender Bui Tien Dung, his favorite dish is bun dau made with shrimp paste. The address where the midfielder was born in 1995 and his teammates often visit is a quite famous restaurant near Hoan Kiem Lake.