Pho, a rice noodle soup is a staple of Vietnamese cuisine. The soup includes rice noodles, thinly sliced meat and clear broth made by simmering beef bones, oxtails, flank steak, serving with onions, basil, lemon or lime, bean sprouts and peppers. There are several varieties of Pho such as Pho Bo, containing beef, and Pho Ga, containing chicken.

To me, the thing I like best in Ha Noi is Trang Tien ice-cream. It’s a special food here. If you visted Ha Noi without trying it, you have definitely missed a part of the city.

There’s a famous s hop which sells Trang Tien ice-cream. It’s located on 35 Trang Tien Street in Hoan Kiem District. Coming there, you”ll see that the shop’s always crowded. A lot of people come for this delicious ice-cream, from the young to the old, from men to women.

"Right as I was getting on the plane to leave for Ha Noi my mom handed me a small, wrapped present, which I opened as soon as I sat down in my seat. It was the book 1000 Places to See Before You Die by Patricia Schultz and on the card accompanying the book she wrote, "A little inspiration for your trip. Love, Mom".... Schultz chose the Old Quarter as of one her picks, and intriguingly devoted another coveted spot to Cha Ca La Vong, a restaurant that is famous for just one dish, grilled fish or cha ca. As a seasoned chowhound who spent the last two years obsessively trying new restaurants in New York City, I knew Cha Ca La Vong would have to be one of my first destinations upon arriving in Ha Noi... What the book said was true: Cha Ca La Vong is a veritable Ha Noi institution," writes Sara Schapiro in The Vietnam News.

Travel  tips in Vietnam

Food

I Vietnamese food often comes as a wonderful surprise! It has a very distinctive style, although it is also clearly influenced by Chinese and, to a lesser extent, French cuisine. Freshness is of paramount importance so ingredients are bought fresh from the local market on a daily basis.

Travel tips in Vietnam

Passport

Each Passenger must be in possession of a valid which must be valid for more than 6 months after the return date of travel. Passport number, date and place of issue, and birth date are now required to confirm services. Names on your airline tickets must match the first and name listed on your passport.

These are 10 tried and tested tips on not falling prey in places where other travelers have.

1. Don't be drunk.

Large, flesh-eating predators on planet Earth have always had a natural instinct to sniff out sick, injured and weak prey. Nocturnal human predators are no different -- and there's no weaker animal on the Serengeti of nightlife than a wasted foreigner.
This one's obvious, but is also probably the most common slip.

From the beginning of the 19th century and on, indian merchants from Bombay, Karachi and Calcutta, settled down in the north and south of Vietnam. Around 1930 there were a thousand of them in Indochina. They formed a large group of well-to-do businessmen, specialized in the sale of fabrics and the change of money. They were to be found in the large markets, buying and selling cotton, silk, and jewelry. Their stores were located in the streets of all the major cities. In Hanoi they lived grouped around “Rue De la Soie” Silk Street where they bought silk from Chinese merchants and shipped this to India and Singapore. This group was rich and big enough to build mosques. English subjects from South India and Bombay built the mosque Al Nuhr in Hanoi around 1900 along with other mosques in the South. Today the mosque is frequented by a varied group of Muslims, most of them expatriates connected to embassies from Malaysia, Libya, Egypt, Lebanon, Indonesia India, Algeria, Yemen, Iraq, Vietnam, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.

Muslim & Hala Restaurants in Saigon - Ho Chi Minh City

1. BOMBAY Restaurant

 

Dong Du Street, near the Mosque 66 Dong Du
Phone: +848 38233594

 

 

The diverse and cosmopolitan nature of Hanoi reflects in its culinary art also. It is a delightful creation of local exotic fare and impressively influenced by the best of the epicurean extravaganza across the world.

Hanoi, being the capital of Vietnam, offers the best selection of dining possibilities of any major global city. Options are plenty ranging from street food corners and swanky food courts in the shopping malls to elegant and expensive fine dinning restaurants in world class hotels.

Overview

Vietnamese cuisine is a style of cooking derived from Vietnam with fish sauce, soy sauce, rice, fresh herbs, fruits and vegetables all commonly used. Vietnamese recipes utilize a diverse range of herbs, including lemongrass, mint, Vietnamese mint, long coriander and Thai basil leaves. Traditional Vietnamese cooking is greatly admired for freshness of the ingredients and for the healthy eating style.

The most common meats used in Vietnamese cuisine are beef, pork, chicken, fish, and various kinds of seafood. The Vietnamese also have a strong vegetarian tradition influenced by Buddhist and Chinese values.