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Articles on food, spirituality, craft villages and the hidden corners of Hanoi we love to share.
Hanoi Old Quarter
A local guide to Hanoi's Old Quarter: how the streets are laid out, the best things to do, the weekend night market, where to eat and how to get there from the airport.
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Hanoi photoshoot
Private, candid photoshoots in Hanoi with a local photographer-guide. Phone or professional-camera packages, priced per hour, with routes planned around the light.
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Old Quarter Corners
A working post office since 1901 that still smells like paper and glue, tucked on the lake's northeast corner — a strange, quiet survivor of colonial Hanoi that people walk past without looking up.
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Ba Dinh's Quiet Rules
A solemn, heavily guarded granite monument in Ba Dinh Square where Ho Chi Minh's embalmed body lies in state — visited under strict rules that are worth knowing before you queue.
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The almond tree remembers
The French colonial prison later nicknamed the "Hanoi Hilton" by American POWs — a heavy, necessary visit with a guillotine, an escape tunnel replica, and one very old tree in the courtyard.
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Old Quarter, Hoi An Style
A Hàng Bạc storefront serving Hoi An-style bánh mì in the heart of the Old Quarter — twelve fillings, a fragrant house sauce, and a sandwich that argues Hanoi can do this style justice too.
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Ngũ Xã Original
The rolled phở of Ngũ Xã street, done at one of the originals near Trúc Bạch Lake — cold noodle rolls, hot dipping broth, and a dish that only really makes sense once you've eaten it here.
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Eat like a local
Phở Gà Huyền Hương on Báo Khánh is spoken of locally as one of Hanoi's "four great chicken phos" — a cash-only, no-frills bowl of long-simmered broth and shredded chicken that's been earning that reputation for decades.
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The Street Named After a Fish
Turmeric-grilled river fish, sizzling in a pan of dill at your table — the dish so iconic it renamed an entire Old Quarter street after itself in the 1870s.
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