In order to eat, guests must park their cars outside, walk to find stall and wait to be arranged seat in the narrow tables to enjoy the renowned delicacies in Dong Xuan Market – Hanoi such as snail rice vermicelli, ribs rice gruel, vermicelli with grilled chopped meat bamboo stick.
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6 Foods You Must Try In Dong Xuan Market
Bun Oc
There is a small stall of snail noodle soup at the bottom of Market’s alley, it is narrow and doesn’t have much space to sit but it is still bustling by a lot of guests, particularly in the afternoon peak. You will be attracted by greasy and crispy snails, sour broth, lightly fragrant taste of wine vinegar. Beside noodle soup, the stall also serves dipped noodles for diners who want to change style of food. Here, noodles is place regularly, when guest order the host will cut a handful of noodles into the bowl which will fully poured by broth and served with snail, bananas, fried tofu. Each bowl of bun chan costs VND 30,000 – 35,000. Stall opens from 10h to 16h daily.
Bun cha bamboo rods
’Cha’ is still clamped with the bamboo stick and grilled on the charcoal as the traditional culinary flavors of Hanoi. Chopped meat wrapped in herbs, fragrantly grilled, served with noodles and sauce, is very tasty, priced 30,000 dong per bowl. Interesting features at the stall is unique special sour sauce hand made from dracontomelon and tamarind, served with ’ bun’. Each dish of ‘Bun cha’ at Dong Xuan alley cost 35,000 dong. The disadvantage here is cramped seat and if you stay long you will be easily annoyed by grilled smoke from the kitchen.
Bún mọc tiết
The stall is located in front of Dong Xuan market which has been in business for 20 years and famous for noodle with ‘mọc’ and boiled blood (tiết). ‘Mọc ’ is made of chopped pork and mushroom.Tasty bowl of noodle, with ‘mọc’ and boiled blood and tartness of bitter bamboo make unforgettable taste. Many people prefer this restaurant for quite tasty brittle fried quẩy’. Stall open from 6am until midnight, the price of a bowl is VND 20,000, and VND 5,000 for a dish of quẩy.
Rib & cartilage gruel
Rib & cartilage gruel in Dong Xuan market started selling from 5pm, it seem to be crowded as the night. Gruel is ground very smooth here, absolutely no longer see the rice, thicken, bold flavor, sweet meat. Gruel is cooked with stewed bone, rib cartilage, make it crispy when we eat, as order it can be served with salted shredded meat to be more attractive. Situated on the Dong Xuan Street sidewalk, facing Dong Xuan market gate, the price of a bowl with full condiment is VND 30,000.
Dried beef salad
A dish of salad with dried beef sliced thick as the little finger, tender beef, fresh, herbs, papaya fresh fibers, mixed with delicious sauce and roasted peanuts. Price for a dish is around 30,000 dong each. In addition to the dry beef, ‘bot lọc’ cake, spring rolls of this stall are also the favorite foods of visitors.
Sweet soup
there are many kind of sweet soup in Dong xuan market, from traditional black beans, corn, grapefruit, red beans … to the various types of foreign sweet soup such as Thai sweet soup, caramel, sticky rice yogurt. Hanoi people still prefer a cup of traditional black beans sweet soup with which remind them of the old countryside. Guests often choose xuka or mixed sweet soup because they are easy to eat, cool sweetness. The price of a cup is VND 15,000. The sweet soup has only a few seats, if crowded, you have to wait.
