My Egg Noodles

I’m still in Hanoi. I’m finding it really difficult to bring myself to book onward travel due to how much I’m enjoying myself here. Hanoi is like no other city I’ve visited before. The chaos, the French influences and the great food options make this city almost perfect.

I haven’t just been eating in the top restaurants here in Hanoi, far from it in fact. I’ve been sampling way more street food while walking around the city by foot. I was a huge fan of the street food in Bangkok, and in Thailand in general, however both myself and my missus who is Thai agrees that the street food here in Hanoi is far superior than what you can find in Bangkok.

Anyway, here are a few shots of the different kinds of foods I’ve been eating the food:

Here we have 2 ladies cooking up Banana fritters. They get a small banana and flatten it out before frying it in a very light batter.

Here’s the banana fritter up close. It wasn’t greasy at all, and the hot banana with the crisp batter made these far superior than those stodgy banana fritters you find in Thailand.

This was much better than the last bowl of noodles I tried. Here we have rice noodles with a nice chicken broth with duck meat. Yummy!

Other delicaces offered by the same shop that I got the soup from. I was to full to try, but I must say it all looks good.

Kebabs can be fount all over the Old Quarter and from sampling 3, they can be a hit or miss. This place located on Hang Giay served up the best, and with the amount of local clientele queuing up to get their kebab fix, it wasn’t surprising.

I’ve never seen prawns or crabs as big as I have as this place, especially considering they have just set up shop on the side of the street. We’ve tried 2 places that offer seafood on the street and this place, located on Huu, had the tastiest and freshest seafood by far!

I’ve never been a fan of Crab, and now I know why: the Crab I’ve tried previously was not fresh. This fella was alive when I pointed it out and was so delecate in flavour I’m now a fan of crab, fresh crab that is

This metal tray is placed on top of some small plastic chairs!

My eating giant prawns on the street.

In Thailand mor-ca-tat, a system of cooking your own meat and veggies in the middle of the table on a charcoal hot grill is pretty popular among Thai’s. I’m a fan as it’s always a crack cooking your own food amongst friends so I was eager to try this place out. The difference to the Thai versions? Not much, the grill is different and here the quality of ingredients were better.

Yum!