bia.

Chan ga nuong-chickens feet
for those who are sea food addicted, or anyone who likes street food, try Cay. Its around Giang Vo lake. They serve like the best street food in Hanoi *in my opinion*, with all kinds, hot pot,winkles, oysters,shellfish,etc.
Talkin bout street foods makes me hungry...

On a very early visit, I enjoyed some roasted corn and chestnuts from a vendor stand near to Hoan Kiem. Good stuff!

Let try chicken wing, leg, feet. And some else such as yummy seafood in Cau Go & Hang Thung str - Old Quarter, Banh goi ( Pillow cake) in Ly Quoc Su str and fruit cup at the corner Hang gai & To Tich very yummy. You did try Bun Cha so you can try Bun Moc( Bun + meat balls + heart + Chop pork + Bamboo) that is amazing food for foreigner, do it. I kknow i should nt recommen Thit Cho ( meat dog) for you, but if you want to know where meat dog best i can present to you...hehe.
Hope you enjoy with new food.

nem chua ran,

Lẩu (Vietnamese Hot Pot) Delicious !
Or
bún đậu (A aquired taste)but delicious

And Bia = )

Hot dogs wrapped in bacon and carne asada tacos.

2 much 2 list.............
that makes my mouth waters.

Cơm rang (fried rice)
Cháo (rice soup): hành (onion), gà (chicken), cá (fish)...
Chè: bưởi (pomelo), đậu xanh (green bean), đậu đen (black bean), đậu đỏ (red bean), sen (lotus)...
Bánh mì (bread): ruốc, chả, chấm sữa (milk), Huế, bò bía...
Bánh bao
Bánh đúc
Bánh rán
Bún bò (beef noodle)
Bún bò Nam Bộ
Bún ốc: ốc + bò (snails noodle)
Bún thang
Bún cá (fish noodle)
Bún chả
Bún đậu mắm tôm (fried tofus with shrimp sause on noodle)
Lòng nướng (grilled pig stomach)
Mì vằn thắn (Chinese noodle)
Mì bò, gà
Mì Quảng
Miến trộn
Miến lươn, cá
Nầm nướng (grilled goat's breast)
Nem chua rán (fried sour spring roll)
Nem rán (spring roll)
Nộm
Phở bò: tái (rare), chín, nạm, gầu, tái lăn
Phở xào (fried noodle)
Phở cuốn (noodle roll)
Phở tíu
Quẩy nóng
Thịt chó (dog)
Xôi (sticky rice): vừng (seasame), gà (chicken), thịt (pork), chả, trứng (egg), xéo (with bean, oil and dried onion)...

The list above shows most of street foods. It doesn't mean I love all of them :)

thats an awesome list! i don't know all of them or what they are. where can i find them?

i've found these websites to be good street food guides but they don't have everything

http://stickyrice.typepad.com/

http://www.savourasia.com/content/view/5/10/

I used to love the half-chicken with herbs eaten with Vietnamese baguette on Tong Duy Tan street food before I became paranoid about food hygiene.

Also on Luong Van Can there's a place that has buttered scallops served with honey-glazed Vietnamese baguette. Damn I just salivated.

Oh my God, buttered scallops? Honey-glazed baguette? Sounds AMAZING. What do I ask for? Who do I beg?
Thanks for the list Virezo, and everyone for all the suggestions. Very helpful!

2 more:
"half-chicken with herbs"= gà tần
"Honey-glazed baguette" = bánh mì nướng mật

I think you'd better write down their Vietnamese names or try to speak them because I'm sure if you ask for 'baguette' (or other foods' English names), the keepers won't understand you.

jhana, they're street foods. I bet you know where to find them ;)

Bánh chay
Bánh trôi nước
Bánh trôi tàu
Lẩu: thập cẩm (various), hải sản (seafood), bò (beef), dê (goat meat)...
Mực/cá nướng (grilled fish for drinkers)
Trứng vịt lộn (duck's egg)

Bánh chưng rán
Bánh dầy kẹp chả
Bánh giò
Bánh cuốn nóng
Bún mọc
Bún bung
Bún chân giò (pig's leg meat noodle)
Bún riêu cua (crab noodle)
Ngô luộc/nướng (boiled/grilled corn)

frog hot-pot, 1 of my favs ...
i think it's on 67 Phó Đức Chính, off truc bach lake...

Hieu Tiu on Hoe Nhai Street. It's noodles with roasted pork, peanuts, cilantro and some yummy sauce! Delicious stuff! It's a tiny place right on the street and easy to miss.

Reading through the foregoing lists, I'd add Thit heo rung (wild boar) in various forms (BBQ'd or added to cha gio are great!) to the mix of enjoyable foods. I recall thit rung being generally available near to Hue. If someone knows a place to find the meat in Ha Noi, please post. Thanks.

virezo you are sadly wrong - i don't know where to find all these street foods that is why i rely on street food guides and what my friends recommend. Altho I'm pretty proud to say I've eaten about half your list!

Nghia tan (i think its called) near Nguyen van Huyen has lots of good street foods if anyone is that far out of the centre.

you know how it is in hanoi - eg. i need to buy a hammer. but where is hammer street??

de2facon, I don't think thịt heo rừng (wild boar) is listed as a street food. That's why I didn't list many of food here.

jhana. Congratulation! You surely have a lot of experience in Vietnamese street foods.
What I mean is: I can't write down here addresses because some of them are sold by vendors (where can I find them again?), some shops have moved to another places, some are in markets or in small alleys... The 'art of street food' is you just take them on the road whenever you like.

If I have time I'll try to list all of street foods and addresses for TNH. I'm sure it'll be worthwhile for both Vietnamese and foreigners.

What's the Vietnamese name and where to get the following:
A small (thin but long) bread (which reminds of a baguette), about 4cm wide, 20cm long (bread, sheesh!) which will be heated up in a small movable oven. Then some pate and chili is added. For a snack you'd buy around 5 of them. Yes, a bit like "Bánh mỳ pa tê" but smaller and no veggies, just pate and chili. I've seen it twice last autumn at the site where the big market used to be which is torn down now. Now I returned and have been looking all over old quarter, no luck. I love it, I need it!

nom - papaya salad with beef jerkey !!!!!

A list (see right hand side archive section)

http://www.noodlepie.com/

my favourites change daily. cravings include bun cha on le van huu. I used to like the Bun Cha on Hang Manh street until it got too popular. They now prefry all their pieces and refry again. Double fry...yuck.

Today I feel like a banana flower salad...nice when it is hot outside.

I just found out: it's called Bánh Mỳ Patê Hải Phòng and they sold it yesterday at the Dồng Xuân Market.

http://newhanoian.xemzi.com/images/userimages/cropped/2822.jpg

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be with Dior2k5 - "nom" or "goi"
Gỏi đu đủ Vietnamese papaya salad typically with shredded papaya, herbs, various meats such as shrimp, slices of pork, liver, or meat jerky, herbs, and with a more vinegar-based rendition of nước chấm.
Gỏi Huế rau muống a salad dish originating from Hue (Central Vietnam), including water spinach (Rau Muong).
Gỏi ngó sen lotus stem salad, with shrimp and pork or chicken.
Goi Ga Chicken and Cabbage salad.

am craving for cao lầu Hội An like crazieeeeeeeeeee........ grrrrrrrrrrrrr

is there anywhere in Hanoi that does good cao lau ?

@dior2k5 the cao lau noodle was discussed on a previous thread and at that time no one knew of anywhere in hanoi that sold cao lau, i to am a huge fan of cao lau and have asked heaps of my viet friends and none of them know anywhere either.

Looks like a weekender binge on cao lau next time i fly to hoi an :D

bun cha, pho, banh bao, nem, my xao, bun bo, com rang
u missing
beer
banh quan
mien ngan
some kind of pho such as pho bo,pho ga
some kind of bun such as bun oc,bun cua,bun moc
chao luon,chao ga
all kind of che : che thap cam,che com...ect

have fun!

One more is added in the list: Cháo Chai, oh my!

My friends always asked, "so what do Vietnamese people have for breakfast?". And I wouldn't really know! What is the Vietnamese equivalent of Snap, crackle and pop, or marmite soldiers?

Well here it is! Bánh Cuốn Nóng!!

They're little delicious rice paper rolls with a toasted rice powdering to give it an ever so slight texture, perfect for the morning. The rolls will come served with tiny strips of shredded pork scattered on top to season. And place worth their salt with also throw in a side order of Cha - some chicken/pork sausage cut into small pieces served in a bowl of light and sweet vietnamese dipping sauce. It's so light and refreshing to eat and is perfect to satify the morning hunger without overloading the taste buds.

You just dip the rolls in the sauce and eat! Simple! And prices range from about 7k to 15k depending on where you go. I'm going out now to get mine for 10k :)

Dog... Can be found at all good alleyways, normally very tender due to the beatings from the locals...

>:I

Also... Bit Tet (Beef Steak)

Anything without amoeba.

Vietnam people usually eat Phở ,bún, bread, or steamed glutinous rice. My favorite breakfast is Phở.

Uh, cháo trai (not cháo chai), bánh khúc, bánh bột lọc, nem tai lợn...

If you go to any cafe or hotels,ask to see if they have any copy of Pathfinder, pages 92,93,94,95 they always give you all( almost) name of street foods, address, prices, i found it very useful. Btw, if anyone see the latest pathfinder can you pls keep one for me,thanks