The street-side stall in Ngo Huyen consists of a collection of low plastic stools serving as both chairs and makeshift tables. This spot specializes in chao suon, a thick rice porridge cooked with pork ribs. The vendors finish their daily…
Alleyway Market Street Food
Walk through the hidden residential alleys of Hanoi's Old Quarter to eat authentic street food where locals go. You will sit on low plastic stools to enjoy light neighborhood snacks, sweet dessert soups, and noodle bowls.
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1. Pork rib porridge - Huyen alley
2. Nem Chua Ran Store - 36 Tam Thuong
The Nem Chua Rán store at thirty-six Tam Thuong Alley is marked by the constant sound of sizzling oil and the scent of frying pork that fills this narrow, eight-hundred-meter-long passageway. While the shop is modest, with plastic stools…
3. Bún chả 74 Hàng Quạt
Bún chả 74 Hàng Quạt is identified by the dense, charcoal-scented smoke drifting from a narrow alleyway barely one meter wide. This slender corridor, extending thirty meters into the heart of the Old Quarter, serves as a familial workspace…
4. Xôi chè bà Thìn
Xôi chè bà Thìn is recognizable by the cluster of customers often gathered around small plastic chairs and tables on the sidewalk at the intersection of Bát Đàn and Hàng Bồ streets. The shop traces its origins to a street vendor cart…
5. Dong Xuan Alley
Dong Xuan Alley is a narrow passage, roughly two hundred meters long, defined by the constant presence of food vendors and the scent of local specialties. Located south of the Dong Xuan Market in Hanoi’s Old Quarter, the space functions as…
6. Cafe Dinh
Cafe Dinh occupies the second floor of a nineteen-hundred-and-nine French colonial building at thirteen Dinh Tien Hoang Street. Visitors find the entrance by locating a narrow passage that leads to an old wooden staircase, hidden away from…