Good morning Hey everyone! hope you're having an amazing day! It's Mark means I'm in the vibrant city of Hanoi in Northern Vietnam This is a street food Paradise Today I'm hanging out with my friend Qua from Hanoi food. He is a local food expert. He's eaten just about everywhere in the city and he's gonna take us on a Hanoi street food tour where we're gonna eat five of the best dishes that you don't want to miss when you come to. Hanoi And I'm going to share all of the amazing food with you coming up right now in this video.

Good Morning again! It's 6 30 a.m bright and early in Hanoi This is a city that wakes up early and people I mean you'll find throughout the Old Quarter you're found to find throughout the entire city. People love to eat breakfast uh, gets you going in the morning I Mean from the moment you wake up, there's just street food lining every single Street and markets. It's so vibrant and so colorful and so we're beginning this morning with the first dish which is served right here. Um uh I will need to do for you the very very famous thank you right restaurant in Hanoi Very special is the owner in this restaurant.

It's working very quick, very quickly. super quick. This might this make her very famous in Hano In Vietnam Is it common to eat sticky rice for breakfast? Yes in Hanoi Yeah you can see everyone a lot of people are here to do to eating this food. All right.

Yeah, All right. So this is where we're beginning with dish number One for the day. and I Can't wait, You have to see her skills. Okay, so she dishes out the sticky rice and she has this yellow kind of like chunk which almost looks like cheese, but it's actually I believe mung bean or green mung bean? Uh which she just shaves onto the top of the sticky rice.

plus some seasonings. Uh, plus Sometimes some I think maybe you could choose your different meat on top as well. Oh wow, She is an absolute joy to watch. Her hands are flying, dishes out, the sticky rice adds on some topsings I think slices some things up, adds on some toppings like you.

Literally because her hair hands are almost moving at the speed of of sight. you almost can't follow her hands. She's so fast, she knows exactly what she's doing. Oh, she has mastered the art of putting toppings onto sticky rice and assembling sticky rice for breakfast.

We have two different versions, right? Yes, Yes! Oh, there's four versions. okay, the two most popular. So the first one is with it's a yellow yellow sticky rice. Yes! And then that's the one that she shaves on that mashed green bean, fried shallots, uh, pork floss and some of the Vietnamese uh cured hams.

Vietnamese Okay, oh it's really dense that sticky rice and it's so fragrant with the fried shallots as well. Oh, that's incredible. That's absolutely delicious. That's an incredible combination because we've got the the warm, really gooey sticky rice that's contrasted by those thin slices of compressed mung bean, green bean kind of, uh, paste which is really starchy, but a totally different texture.

The saltiness is coming from those crispy shallots and the fragrance. And then you've got that kind of hairy fluffy pork floss which gives it a another textural dimension. It's really good, really good. and then you can combine that with pieces of the the cured, the pork ham as well.

Oh yeah, that's really good. This is a real awesome Hanoi Breakfast I'm really impressed how well it comes together in your bowl. with all the different toppings, it all just comes together in this amazing. Harmony And I'm really impressed with the green bean paste that somehow is like a bean butter.

Almost. It really works well with the entire dish. This entire sidewalk is turning into an almost parking lot with motorbikes and just people. Gathering That's why she has to fly so fast.

She has a huge crowd that comes here for breakfast. We have another version. Not only is it sticky rice, but there's corn mixed within the sticky rice with the green bean with the shallots with that hairy hairy pork floss on top that fluffy. Let's try this one.

Oh, that's excellent too. It's more shorter than this one, actually, that foreign so it's not quite as sticky. But it's also very hearty, nutritious and filling in the morning with that those hearty grains of corn in there. Oh man, they're both really good.

So satisfying. Oh, that was a fantastic way to begin this. Hanoi Street Food tour. We are moving on to dish number two.

We're a few streets over from the main Central Market and I think we're heading down this tiny slot alley to get to the the next place to eat. Okay, in yesterday's Pho tour, we went to a similar place with an alley that leads to a A Tavern Like a cave. Oh, it opens up. It's a whole lot of spot.

Oh what an incredible we're in this. like hidden. Courtyard Jam-packed people just slurping down bowls of breakfast noodles. You could smell the aroma of the seafood in the air.

Oh, this is A Hidden Gem Just tucked into a courtyard. Foreign. It's almost unbelievable how fast they're able to assemble bowls of noodles perfectly. and just her skill at balancing out the broth because she just keeps.

They just keep transferring broths from different uh, pots to the serving pot. She balances it out, she taste tests it, she adds in some more crab row or some seasonings, and she just tastes it quickly and knows exactly that. his. Ultimate Experience But then they just literally fly.

There's two two ladies on making each dish according to your preference, but they know the ingredients to go in a handful of green onions. the shallots on top, the broth. everything precise and like boom boom boom boom boom and a bowl is ready. Unbelievable like attention to detail and strategy.

And one cool thing that they were just mentioning is that the Moon which are those types of noodles they sell 100 kilos every five hours. That's how popular this place is. They take noodle culture to the next level in Vietnam and this is serious noodle action here. And I mean Pho is a noodle dish that gets a lot of attention.

and I mean it is one of the most popular. But there's so many other extremely famous and extraordinarily delicious and complex noodle soups in Vietnam This is one of them. Oh wow, there it is. Fully loaded.

Come on and there it is. The egg water topping for a bowl of noodles. We went all in. We got everything from beef to sausage to fertilized duck egg to mantis, shrimp, tofu, tomatoes, fried shallots.

The broth is made completely of crab and she just keeps balancing it out. And we finally got a table right here in the center, just surrounded. Oh, you can smell the crab and the shrimp. The shrimp paste in there also.

yes and then. so much going on. So complex it's very smooth. Yeah yes.

foreign. so many flavors in your mouth all at once and you've got the bitterness of that crab bro. plus a sweetness. and you can tell from the way she just like mixes it up just how much pride they take in that broth and it's a more delicious yeah.

the vegetables really really kind of brings out the freshness. Got a huge basket of there's lettuce looks like banana stock as well and some herbs. Yeah oh man with those herbs that gives it a really refreshing taste. Along with that that shrimpy crappiness.

then we've got beef. We've got all the mantis shrimp thank you Emma Where am I Um, it's really sweet I Love the flavor I love how many things are going on and we haven't even added condiments yet. There's still more condiments to add if you want to enhance your broth a bit more. But what has taught me about eating Vietnamese noodles is you want to eat about half your Bowl before you start seasoning so that you really taste the pure flavor of the broth.

um the centerpiece of the bowl. slightly fertilized duck egg. Oh so many textures, a little bit of feather action in there. you've got the the yolk and the white with totally different like creamy and silky and crumbly textures.

Delicious. So delicious. I think I'm ready for some chili. Thank you! Okay so there's fried chili.

There's some fresh oil. Oh thank you very much for you. Yes, that's good, that's good. Thank you for hooking me up with some of that chili.

This is a special type of vinegar which wow almost has a little alcoholic Aroma almost like alcohol aroma. Wow, like a cider a little bit. Yeah, a little bit. Yeah good.

Okay and then you want to Stir It Up Again rebalance rebalance. Oh, let it all absorb into that tofu as well. Oh with the fried chili, all the vinegar has adds like this sweet and sourness to it. It has more smell.

Yeah yeah, he had even transforms it a little bit more if that's even possible. Makes it even more complex. And Chase every bite with that that award-winning broth. this is the ultimate bowl of surf and turf noodles.

I mean from beef to a duck embryo to mantis, shrimp to crab just all in your bowl, floating around in your soup. Wow, that was incredibly satisfying and just another Testament to the deliciousness of the noodle culture in Vietnam how good the noodles are just tells you why this place is just continuously hacked whole. Now that is a bowl of noodles. I Won't forget and Auntie here is so nice she wouldn't even accept our payment.

Uh, highly recommended. This is the spot you come down this. Slot Canyon alley and you are in a paradise of bunzial. It's a single file alley.

This is the place That's two dishes. we've got three more to go. All right. hello hello, Where are we going Now Now we're going to take you to the very very special Noodle in Hanoi All right, but the temperature of this food is not hot.

It's not hot. It's cold. Okay, foreign. So we've come to the spot.

She's so friendly, welcoming us and in that clay jar that's the legendary broth. the snail cold soup that we came to try and this will be my first time to try it. Oh there's the snails. Yes Now she brought out the like hands full of fresh snails.

Those are huge deshelled. She makes hot noodles and cold noodles. So I think she's making some pot noodles First Step But that broth is quite amazing too. All these like snail meatballs floating around with tomatoes in the broth.

so aromatic. This is a spice full of snails. Double double the amount of snails. Yeah, you're really hungry for snails.

Okay, so the snails go in. Oh man, she's just so friendly. She wanted to show us everything. we came only thinking to eat the cold snail suit, but she wanted to show us everything including the giant bowl with like half a dozen massive gigantic snails in it.

So I think we might be sampling everything here I Believe from what Koya was showing me. She started off very humbly from selling her uh, snail soup from one of the manual carrying carts with the baskets on either end and she would just set up here and then she would put out some chairs and serve it. Now she's I mean she's become so legendary and sold so well that she has opened a shop. But you can still come and sit here on the sidewalk to eat.

So we got a table right here. Okay, here we go. Sit down. Oh yeah, so you got the uh, all the vegetables and herbs on the side.

You've got noodles on the side which you then dip into the brats I believe. And then there's some chili, some vinegar for seasoning. Those snails are gigantic. It looks like a scallop or an abalone almost all men and you got a little bit of chili oil floating around on top.

But I want to just taste that cold broth first? Um, oh oh, it's salty and so much? Umami Yes, Wow. That is so much flavor packed into that broth. Sharply salty and just sharply. It's like it doesn't have a real strong snail flavor to it.

I Mean it's just like a wow. Incredible with the acidity of the tomatoes. Oh, it's good. It's elliptical yes and you you can smell and not feeling this.

uh, this one in in the in the soup. What is that one? Um, the same with the Brazil Oh okay for the vinegar vinegar. Yeah, okay and that you can kind of contrast. maybe the saltiness because the broth is quite salty, but that's also because it's more of a dipping sauce.

Also, for the noodles and the vegetables, look at this snail. Hey, is it an egg? Huge snail. Wow. A little bit earthy tasting, a lot of textures.

It's crunchy and slimy. yeah all together in your mouth at once with that chili oil. Oh very good. Oh, Add some soup to your bite with the snail.

Yeah, Oh yeah. because then you've got the yeah. You've got the saltiness of the broth together with that snail. What a dish.

What a broth. What a soup! So this is the noodles, which are into little bite-sized patties. You dip it into the broth, let it submerge in, soak, and then you can invite it. Hmm.

That absorbs so much flavor in that broth. You can take some of the herbs and vegetables from the salad, mix over here, add this, and just kind of dunk it, and then you eat that all together with the herbs and the Boon Mm-hmm Got the soup. The soup is so much flavor. Unbelievable.

It is already actually a little bit spicy with that chili oil on top. I think I'll add a little more to bump it up. Garlic vinegar: I'm gonna stir this around and then grab another, go in for another another snail. Well the slimy crunch of that snail.

Well that really is wonderful. You like this one? Yeah, one of your one of your favorites. This is one of my favorite. one of your favorite dishes.

Yeah I Can eat a lot of time. It is very good. Yeah very good. Got your mouth full of snail with the hot soup.

It's with pork bones also. not just the snails, but I think pork bones in here which is different from the cold broth. so this is the hot broth. Let me taste that hot broth.

the Herb's already inside of the hot broth with tomato but also with pork bones. I believe Hmm Oh yeah, that's good too. rich, a little more rich I think. but actually somehow the the cold broth is quite Rich Also, so much flavor, such a complexity and the sourness of the tomatoes? Okay, I'm gonna try one of these.

These are the meatballs that are floating around in that broth and I think it's a combination of snail and pork. It's so juicy. maybe there's some egg in there to make it fluffy as well. Parking up and then every now and then you have these little bits of snail in there.

Oh those are. and because they Bob around in the soup, they just kind of absorb all that broth. Oh that's a brothy meatball that's so good. Come on, come on.

Yeah! thank you thank you very much. Thank you very much! She has to be the most passionate, most happy snail soup vendor you will ever find in the world. She loves what she does. She has an unbelievable recipe! She's so friendly and nice and welcoming.

and her snail soup is absolutely so much flavor it will blow you away. Another delicious meal in Hanoi Vietnam and another noodle specialty. Oh that was very very satisfying. And to continue with this ultimate Hanoi Vietnamese Street Food tour.

we're going to eat what is the undisputable champion of lunch in Hanoi the next one that we need to do for you Very famous I Really really love this flavor. What's the name of the restaurant is a lot of this island. Oh, seating is All Along The Alley Oh what a spot and the food is All Along The Alley as well the entire kitchen is within the side of the alley. Well we're gonna see the process and walk down the alley and see the whole process and then the seating is further down.

But this is one of the greatest dishes. One of the top Vietnamese dishes in one of the the all-time great dishes of Hanoi. So let's take a look at what's going on and how it's prepared before we start eating. And so it all begins with the boom.

These are the rice noodles that is the foundation of the dish. So let's walk down to the to the grill. The Aromas are just out of control down this alley. So then there's two different Meats which are marinated and actually kind of pre-grilled There's the pork pieces as well as pork.

little meatballs, little burger patties those get just an ignite on fire with the fat. um until they're scorched and brings out the aroma and so smoky. Then they go to the serving station where they get go into a bowl with some of the soupy sauce and then you combine it all together which we'll see when we start eating. Thank you! Oh here he Comes the Boon Okay we can help how wobble it is.

Oh yes here it is. Come on come on! I Remember when I first came to Hanoi 11 years ago with my wife and I we we tried Buncha for the first time. We didn't know what it was and we almost could not believe how tasty it was. It just I I was in disbelief.

The combination, the smokiness, the fish sauce, sweet balance, the garlic, the fresh chilies and all the herbs all eaten together. Is it mostly for lunchtime? Today you have opportunity to eat again I Am very happy at this time. You have a you have me to get you yeah I think it's better yes version for the best size. So we've got the pork pieces plus the patties plus all the pickled vegetables, plus the broth which is a combination of fish sauce and sugar and maybe some broth as well.

And then you can see how everything is charred for a reason on the fire so that it brings out the smokiness and that goes into the broth. Try that soup with chilies. There's garlic in there as well, yes, sweet and sour. and then this undeniable smokiness.

You can add the noodles as you go, let them soak in and absorb. Oh yeah, that just immediately hydrates the noodles. so it's almost like a soup, but a dipping sauce at the same time with some of the pork. Delicious! And they're just totally like.

the noodles, just fill up with the flavor of that smoke. Oh it's so rich and so sweet and sour and balanced. And then you can start to add more vegetables. There's lettuce.

I Really love the perilla leaves this to your bowl and the same thing. just let it absorb that. that Briny fish sauce juices with the noodles with the pork all together. As soon as you dip the vegetables they bring out that brings out the aroma I Love the vegetables, the herb and crisp and fresh and then when you wilt them, they're just slightly Wilt in the broth that even brings out the flavor.

but I love the pepperiness of the the mint and the perilla leaves. It's such an addictive flavor. like everything your your taste buds need. Okay I'm gonna try one of the the meatball meat patties that is oh yeah so Smoky and fatty.

Oh and then again it just absorbs that broth. You know it's like a juicy meatball. And the garlickiness? Yeah that is a flavor to cherish. Oh raw garlic.

Raw chilies you can add to your bowl. Oh I Really want those chilies and a bit more garlic? bump up the flavor. Oh more garlic and chilies? Oh yeah! I love it with that extra garlic. those extra chilies.

These are the fried spring rolls. so that is interesting to have the fried spring rolls as the the side dish for buncha. but it is only the additional and it's not inside of the buncha. but it's an addition, but people always order it to the one thing.

something extra crispy. Yeah, all right. Yeah mmm. excellent.

crispy, a little bit oily. Yeah, it was good. Really good. What a combination that was absolutely delicious and a place that you should definitely check out and eat at when you are in.

Hanoi That's four down. We've got one more food to eat. We have made it to the final. Dish Dish Number five that is gonna complete this tour today.

We have a chew. Oh okay, we might have an extra dish, but this is number five and what are we gonna eat and it's gonna be right here. across from the market where they sell kanji and it's a very old, very legendary restaurant. Very famous restaurant.

but there is going to be possibly an extra bonus dish coming up after we eat this. but let's eat this first. They specialize in chow here right? which is kanji or rice porridge with fried dough sticks with I think some of the pork floss. Wow yeah it's so thick and so smooth.

All that Aroma coming out of that steam smells incredible and they have a huge pot of it. It looks really like a really fine texture as opposed to a coarse kanji, but really fine texture. Looks like there's some meat in here right now. They said it's not very busy, but it will just get more and more busy throughout the evening and chairs will be spread out throughout this entire area.

All right. Normally I see kanji. You can see the rice, but this one. You can't even see any grains of rice.

It's completely smooth. Oh yeah, look at that texture. I Don't know if I've ever had a kanji that's so fine in texture. so I'm excited to try this.

Yeah, this is something different than I haven't seen. Yes, okay, let's taste it is. I think I I think I do Oh that's really soothing and warming and you taste the flavor of the pork. maybe also cooked with pork broth.

It really has a strong flavor of pork but not overly rich and then just really really like starchy and creamy popular in Vietnam in Vietnam So ribs, ribs Congee Okay, compared to the other dishes that we've eaten today, this is the most simple flavor because we've got a lot of flavors that are very complex with many different ingredients and this one is a very soothing, very simple. This konzi is heavily silly, heavily seasoned. Yeah, it's already salty, it's already salty and you can taste the yeah the meaty flavor of it. I Mean you can taste the bone broth.

It's so much so in the fact that it almost is like a party gravy. But definitely it needs some seasonings. a little pepper, a little bit of chili powder for sure. Okay.

and then stir it around you can add pudding to white. Oh thank you. This is called put inside, put it inside. put inside.

Drop that in. Yeah yeah. Submerge it. Submerge it.

Okay, now we're good to go now. Well I don't know. Oh yeah. with the crispy, the crispy texture over the dough? Yeah, yeah.

oh, that's really good. Nah now. I Just feeling delicious? Yes, Yes. Oh yeah.

Put it on. and with the chili and the pepper? Yeah, that stepped it up. But there's one more bonus. Might be the most exciting dish of the whole day.

Will it be the most exciting exciting of the whole day? Yeah, maybe maybe. And that's coming next. I Can't wait! So we're here now to eat our final and our last and a thrilling end to this street food tour today. What is it called? Chazz Food In Hanoi Is that only in Hanoi Only in Hanoi Yeah.

a sand worm pancake. There they are. Those are the sand worms. A lot of pepper in there, shallots, and a lot of herbs in there.

Then there's minced pork and all of that herbs. Oh and that that is. Tangerine Oh wow, what a recipe! What a batter sandwich looks like earthworms. Almost okay.

So from what I understand the worms. The sand worms live deep in the rice paddy Fields way below the surface and they're only available during a certain season which is not this season. So these are actually uh Frozen worms. that's why they're not wiggling around.

Uh, but yeah, what an impressive mixture of batter with eggs with peppers, so many herbs, and Dill uh with shallots with Tangerine with the sand worms and she delicately mixes that up into us. this like batter. Oh fried in chicken oil? Yeah wow. Nice.

this chicken fat to fried in increase the flavor. so maybe more than a pancake. It might be more like a an omelette. foreign.

Tes Or the pancakes are fried into little patties and lots of people take them to go. but she does actually serve them here. and there's some tables and some little chairs on the sidewalk nearby. But then she serves it as a full meal.

so she slices it up into bite-sized pieces, serves it with herbs, serves it with the dipping sauce, serves it with Boon Boone is one of the staple foods in Hanoi and I think this is our tray. Oh yes, so we got it as a full meal set. Oh awesome! Oh that's hot and fresh right out of the chicken oil. I Cannot wait to try the yes and this is something very special.

Smells so good, the rum of the chicken oil and all. I like all the herbs that she used inside of it and then served with more bun? Yeah, we had a lot of Boone today and then served with herbs and then a dipping sauce. My first taste of sand worms. oh wow, you're melting your mouth.

yeah and I love the flavor of the dill in there. Oh you've got egg. You've got minced pork. All the crispy edges, you kind of absorbs some of the chicken fat because janworm kind of has a very soft texture, kind of just melts in your mouth.

No, no strange taste at all, just extraordinarily tasty. and then dip it into that sauce for the next move with a little bit of pickle in there. Yes, um yes. Oh wow.

that makes it a little more salty and a little more juicy. This is something new I haven't tried in Vietnam Is that a lot of people afraid of this? This food. Oh okay, when when they see the wolf? okay yeah. especially if they're the live look like earthworms.

it is a little frightening, but it's antivirally. it tastes incredible. Yeah we go with some of the the Boon the little bite-sized Boon that you can dip, dip it inside a dip it inside. yeah Oh just poison the combo bite.

Yes. do the combo bite hot and cold. the silky texture of the noodles look crispy. The sauce.

mmm wow, that's Sensational it's so good. Unbelievably tasty. One thing on the table could make it even better. I'm talking about this.

Oh yeah. so incredibly addictively good Into the sauce all loaded up with chilies. Yes, that will bump up the flavor. yeah mm-hmm a little bit of heat and then the the crunch of the chilies.

Throw some of the herbs, some perilla, some coriander, some mint. not too sweet. The soup is very good. It's almost like a little bit like bun cha, but even more exciting because of the sand worms.

and the more special mm-hmm this is a highlight for the day for me. That herbal combination of Dill and that Citrus finish with the Tangerine peel and the sand worms squished in between. That's something really special and so that completes five. Actually six of the best street foods to eat in Hanoi The variety, the complexity, the balance, it's it's all there.

and I Just love the eating culture in Vietnam where you can just eat pretty much anywhere, sitting on the low stools and food in Vietnam is not only about the delicious food, but it's also about the conversation. It's about hanging out. It's about spending time with friends and family and talking and just enjoying time socializing while you eat. And that's what food really should be.

So I'll have all of the places that we ate all six places in the description box below. um that you can check out when you are in Hanoi for some delicious food and I Want to say a huge thank you to Cuea from Hanoi Food he makes food videos in Vietnamese mostly about food in Hanoi So go check out his channel, subscribe to his channel, and check out his videos for some fantastic local recommendations and that's going to be it for this video. I Want to say a huge thank you for watching? Please remember to give this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it. Leave a comment below I'd love to hear from you and if you're not already subscribed, make sure you subscribe now for lots more food and travel videos.

Good night from Hanoi Vietnam I'll see you on the next video. foreign.