How To Find Out Everything There Is To Know About Best Food In Hanoi In 6 Simple Steps

And, to be fair, that level of desperation to forge extra profits through dishonesty - a reputation that afflicted Hanoi for a long time - is pretty much gone. So many foreigners know so much about street food. I pulled up with slightly better street smarts all this time later and she knows now that she can't pull such stunts.

Strangely I went back to a vendor that I boycotted many years ago when, after many fine experiences, she started to blatantly overcharge me. I'm talking 13 or 14 years ago when such practices were all too common. I didn't eat today where he supposedly did. We may have to wait until Mr. Bourdain's television program is aired to find out if the President did.

Former Hanoi, now Saigon expat Connla Stokes told me that the bun cha eatery in question is doing a roaring trade, many customers wanting to sit at the same table, set their dishes in the presidential way and take photos of course. I believe there has been quite a lot of discourse about it, none of which I've read in detail. A photograph of Barack Obama and Anthony Bourdain sitting at a bun cha table got relayed all around the world a few weeks ago.

Today, a street food dish that's created quite a stir in my absence from Hanoi (and one that I've written about a few too many times) reared up in the streetscape as I sought out my first meal upon returning. As an American, I rarely had many of my fellow countrymen to socialize with (because Americans don't go anywhere), so I would usually end up getting drunk with my friends at the English/Irish table. It's a fun place to go, and it's always crowded with expats who have sorted themselves into different tables depending on nationality.

They serve food until 10:30pm and it's not terrible. This bar is completely outdoors, with very little shelter, so keep an eye on the weather. It's a fun place to sit when trains are thundering by.

It's also the cover image for this section of the guide. It's a fixture for locals and expats. I've never gone there and not ran into to somebody I know.

I don't know, but it's there to stay. Like, how did anybody even find it in the first place? It's so well hidden that I struggle to grasp how it got to be such a fixture Attraction in Hanoi Hanoi.

Tucked away next to the train tracks, down an little urban passage way, Ray Quan sits in relative anonymity. Bugs or no bugs, Beer2Ku is still one of my favorite places to drink in Hanoi. The bugs that swarm around the lights in the summer are annoying, but the fall weather is absolutely perfect.

They serve great dark beer here in pint glasses. Beer2Ku will be as nice as the weather on any given night. You should know that this place is outdoors, which means you will be subject to the elements.