Food Marathon in Hanoi (2)
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Binh drove me to Bao Son Paradise Theme Park by car. It's somewhere located about 30 mins drive from the Hanoi city. The theme park was actually not completely built, but it is already open, with higher admission fee (50K VND) during the weekend!
After some walk around, we saw this shop. I also almost finished the water I carried along. Weather was hot.
Then we stepped into the shop.
Meal Number: 4
When: 4:30pm, 25 April 2009
Where: Bao Son Paradise Theme Park
What: Colorful icy stuff again (served in plate this round!)
How much: 15,000 VND (appx USD0.85 or RM3) each
Very tempting, right?
If you ask me why I've special preference on this kind of thing, I also can't answer. There is no reason.
However, I felt the ice given was not much enough. With more ice, it'd be more cooling and delicious.
Houng met Binh and I at hotel at around 5:30pm, bringing along her friend, Hong. So we had got 3 girls with a name starting with 'H' :P
We walked along the Cau Go street, where my hotel was located. The number of food stalls near the roadside started to increase when dusk arrived. This is Vietnam! Some of them are allowed to do business only during the early morning and at night time.
They brought me to eat Bun Thang - it's a kind of noodle coming with chicken.
That was a stall near the roadside as well. Since there was no place for us to sit, we went upstairs. It really amazed me coz I never know there was such a place belonging to the roadside stall.
You've gotta walk past a small alley which you probably won't be dare enough to explore if you were not local.
Plenty of space here...
Meal Number: 5
When: 6:30pm, 25 April 2009
Where: Cau Go Street
What: Bun Thang
How much: 35,000 VND (appx USD2 or RM7.30) each
These are the "inside parts" of chicken, for you to eat together with the soup noodles.
For your information, this is not called PHO. This kind of small noodle is called BUN (pronounce in the Malay way, not the English way).
This Bun Thang cost almost the double price of a normal roadside noodle, due to the "inside parts of chickens" being served together.
After this meal, we walked to another shop to eat another "local thing". When they told me this, I was like... are there really so much more Vietnamese specialties to try?
Meal Number: 6
When: 7:00pm, 25 April 2009
Where: Ba Hong (the name of the shop)
What: Nem Tai, which means spring rolls with pig's ear and rice powder
How much: 60,000 VND (appx USD3.50 or RM13) for 4 persons
Once we sat down, we were already served with something on the table. Everything was freshly prepared beforehand.
It's still very Vietnamese-style... lotsa veges, one bowl of sauce per person, and you've gotta do-it-yourself.
The pig's ears... I asked if that's peanut powder... luckily it's just rice powder.
Wrap and put into your mouth.
They asked me, till date, have I got an impression that... Vietnamese eat every part of a pig?? Haha...
Meal Number: 7
When: 8:00pm, 25 April 2009
Where: a simple coffee shop (name unknown)
What: Coffee with Yogurt
How much: (sorry, the price is forgotten)
When you have meals near the roadside, normally no one asks what drink would you like to have. I think this is not their culture. Therefore, on our way walking to the Mag Music Festival, they suggested to have a drink.
I followed Houng to order a coffee with yogurt. I really wondered about such a combination.
In Vietnamese language, this is called Sua Chua Ca Phe, where sua = milk, chua = sour, ca phe = coffee.
Stir and mix them together before you drink.
I quite like this coffee with yogurt. The coffee tastes strong, where the sourness of yogurt is strong too.
Seven meals in a day... I am so amazed with myself!
Binh drove me to Bao Son Paradise Theme Park by car. It's somewhere located about 30 mins drive from the Hanoi city. The theme park was actually not completely built, but it is already open, with higher admission fee (50K VND) during the weekend!
After some walk around, we saw this shop. I also almost finished the water I carried along. Weather was hot.
Then we stepped into the shop.
Meal Number: 4
When: 4:30pm, 25 April 2009
Where: Bao Son Paradise Theme Park
What: Colorful icy stuff again (served in plate this round!)
How much: 15,000 VND (appx USD0.85 or RM3) each
Very tempting, right?
If you ask me why I've special preference on this kind of thing, I also can't answer. There is no reason.
However, I felt the ice given was not much enough. With more ice, it'd be more cooling and delicious.
Houng met Binh and I at hotel at around 5:30pm, bringing along her friend, Hong. So we had got 3 girls with a name starting with 'H' :P
We walked along the Cau Go street, where my hotel was located. The number of food stalls near the roadside started to increase when dusk arrived. This is Vietnam! Some of them are allowed to do business only during the early morning and at night time.
They brought me to eat Bun Thang - it's a kind of noodle coming with chicken.
That was a stall near the roadside as well. Since there was no place for us to sit, we went upstairs. It really amazed me coz I never know there was such a place belonging to the roadside stall.
You've gotta walk past a small alley which you probably won't be dare enough to explore if you were not local.
Plenty of space here... Meal Number: 5
When: 6:30pm, 25 April 2009
Where: Cau Go Street
What: Bun Thang
How much: 35,000 VND (appx USD2 or RM7.30) each
These are the "inside parts" of chicken, for you to eat together with the soup noodles.
For your information, this is not called PHO. This kind of small noodle is called BUN (pronounce in the Malay way, not the English way). This Bun Thang cost almost the double price of a normal roadside noodle, due to the "inside parts of chickens" being served together.
After this meal, we walked to another shop to eat another "local thing". When they told me this, I was like... are there really so much more Vietnamese specialties to try?
Meal Number: 6
When: 7:00pm, 25 April 2009
Where: Ba Hong (the name of the shop)
What: Nem Tai, which means spring rolls with pig's ear and rice powder
How much: 60,000 VND (appx USD3.50 or RM13) for 4 persons
Once we sat down, we were already served with something on the table. Everything was freshly prepared beforehand.
It's still very Vietnamese-style... lotsa veges, one bowl of sauce per person, and you've gotta do-it-yourself.
The pig's ears... I asked if that's peanut powder... luckily it's just rice powder.
Wrap and put into your mouth. They asked me, till date, have I got an impression that... Vietnamese eat every part of a pig?? Haha...
Meal Number: 7
When: 8:00pm, 25 April 2009
Where: a simple coffee shop (name unknown)
What: Coffee with Yogurt
How much: (sorry, the price is forgotten)
When you have meals near the roadside, normally no one asks what drink would you like to have. I think this is not their culture. Therefore, on our way walking to the Mag Music Festival, they suggested to have a drink.
I followed Houng to order a coffee with yogurt. I really wondered about such a combination.
In Vietnamese language, this is called Sua Chua Ca Phe, where sua = milk, chua = sour, ca phe = coffee.
Stir and mix them together before you drink. I quite like this coffee with yogurt. The coffee tastes strong, where the sourness of yogurt is strong too.
Seven meals in a day... I am so amazed with myself!
4 comments:
The ice-kacang thingy looks yummy! Bring me on a food marathon!!! Please!!!
I think if I bring you, you'd have more fun than me, coz you are entitled to eat more types of food!! My friend will feel more fun too :)
Haan, "sua chua cafe" cost 10-20k VND, depends on class of the shop:-), but it's cheaper if making at home, very simple to make: just put a jar of yoghurt into a glass, add some condensed milk (if u need more sweet), add filtered coffee then put some ice and enjoy:-)), it cost only 5k VND! I ussually have it after lunch:-)
houng, thanks for teaching. i will try to make it this weekend... seems not hard, and i like the mixed sourness and bitterness!
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