Tuesday 3 January 2012

Enjoy noodle Moc remember Nguyen Tuan

Hanoi has many delicious dishes, each day added a new flavor also change color over time. Bun is not told enough Hanoi Vietnam, which is the bean vermicelli, noodles and crab, bun thang, bun cha ... But surely no one is unknown and noodle dish grows memory Village People Category - the home of writer Nguyen Tuan.

There have been many articles praising the capital Hanoi noodle, but I want to spend pages talking about noodles and grow, even though this dish is not too rare, does not show much talent, sophisticated dishes that have folk , also very popular.

Maybe because when it comes to noodles made me grow always remember the talented writer Nguyen Tuan and his unique pages (Village People Category - Nhan Chinh's home grown noodle dish is the birthplace of the writer). And, when it comes to growing my noodle is also envisioned a space for Hanoi old girl with brown coat with white bun spread burden on the young green bananas exhausted ...



Time immemorial, students, writers of animal food has played a unique article praising specialty home. Maybe his pages he created the voice part and the special delicacy of this tradition.

Bun always attract people who grow food because of its simple flavors. It combines a bit of noodles naturally, growing, non frames ball, cinnamon, mushrooms, peppers and onions. Furthermore, served with dishes you also have herbs, basil smooth - a specialty of land vegetables Chang'an.

Now in Hanoi did not grow where there is no bun, no longer the landmark village that has become crowded streets. But the old village that has saved our customers remember the taste of the capital Hanoi by the growing popular noodle dishes, noodle recipes now widely grown and developed to take advantage.

In the capital Hanoi, from the sidewalk amnesty to expensive restaurants, see menus everywhere rising bun. But, according to writer Nguyen Tuan and as my own feeling is like enjoying a delicious bowl of noodles grow is to go to the cafes that line, the burden of seaweed.

Perhaps the "good" are not formed by individual items, but also by the feel of how to enjoy. If anyone ever eaten one of my siblings growing noodle vendors will understand that.

The salesman placed iridescent swallow slices white bun feet underwent available in green banana leaves. When a client they put it on each slice of bun to fill, pour broth and add bone slices cinnamon ball, grows with a pinch of herbs. Only enough so that the guests were craving is touched, let alone lead.

The guests ate it sitting comfortably on the pedestal chair, inhaling hot and aromatic, spicy hot broth and noodles ... the man's cool head in the cold this winter to enjoy noodle bowl grows hot, aromatic even tingle like it's nothing!

I want to make this delicious dish should have asked her owners choosing raw materials. She hints, to choose a white bun, long and soft, if you choose noodles nothing by Phu. There used to be underground water from pork bones, more action, seasoning and salt to a much thicker ...

But what's special is the crisp crisp noodles growth of growing (actually rolls). Hours noodles grow not cut into slices that are now living with the member. At the left leg near the new food into hot water. People who call the roll was growing, as well as to explain the name of this dish is somewhat special.

Bun Hanoi has emerged the sacred in the world, a country dish that foreign visitors will want to find. Human growth of the village noodle dish Section hometown of writer Nguyen Tuan too: folk, especially from the name!

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Ha Thanh Vietnam Food

The law's greatest cultural Thang Long - Hanoi is convergent, crystallization, exchange and spread. Hanoi Vietnam food culture is also based on this rule.

Hanoi cuisine general nature, tolerance, community and dialectical, flexible. The sum shown in the food processing (combination of foods) and eating (several dishes at once) is reflected in the importance of communication in eating. Tolerance is the reception can complete development of the regional cuisine in the specialty of Hanoi.


How to eat, gripping tools, contact ... food, focused sound dialectical relationship - positive (negative harmony - food's positive, the average negative - positive in the human body, balanced sound - ocean between human body with the natural environment), using the weather feed, proper season, the right state, like the right time, "cooking live shrimp, goby to rotten; voting age, cast into the pond, secret filming doors to higher money; rice is cooked to, the ring of young girls a chicken crab drive ... "

Some street names have been associated with specialty Hanoi: Cha Ca La Vong Cha Ca street, Hang Than crumb cake, cakes ... Every street food icon of Thang Long - Hanoi is the market, typically Dong Xuan Market. Many specialty of Hanoi went on folk songs, proverbs: "Pandan Loop, Tri-eight rice and crude soy sauce, basil Lang nothing better;" Dua La, Lang basil, taste with crude soy sauce, fish sauce Van Van Dam perch Lightning, "" Roll Chem, throw, chain of ... ";" Thanh Tri-rolls, cakes aunt (thick) Pub burden, "" Tea for bridges Tien, Tu Ky sen noodles.

Spices in the dish of Hanoi people very rich, making a reasonable increase in the quality of food. Ginger to drown out the cause of the beef. Eggplant fried bacon have shiso. Must have garlic fried spinach, served with vegetables and marjoram. Boiled spinach lemon pepper fish sauce. Son, the same axis must be fragrant knotweed, spine, leaves guise. Turtles, snails cooked with green bananas. Vertical nets and non fried beans and fresh water must have some technology. Crab, crab buildings must have vinegar. Spices are often spicy dishes Hue, Saigon often fat sweet, but spicy dish of Hanoi often fragrant.

In the years 1937 - 1952, Hanoi has shaped and is called "classic noodle." Noodle flexible, elastic, smooth, white ball. The beef slices are cooked and sliced, to the, some green onion wings, two, three branches of life have roots embedded jade colored water until a few minutes, a few strands of ginger, red pepper slices double, a tributary Lang basil, a little pepper. Broth made from beef bones, ginger grilled, roasted onions dry, pale yellow color of honey, flowing with sweet, charming.

Southerners get quality food, or cobble together. Central Food Allergic capacity, sophisticated cuisine of Hue, stylish display means, more food, less volume. Cuisine of Hanoi humble, elegant, the palate of each session, each season. Hanoi delicious with a combination of several factors: food must taste and spice reasonable, hot food, eat the same feelings for each other sharing ...

Hanoi people are interested in arranging a meal so beautiful presentation dish how to combine colors, smells and images. Enjoy good food is the sum total of experience of the senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch. The Hanoi is not only interested in eating what matters, but also interested in eating problems such as how, where, with whom, when ...

Cuisine of Hanoi has improved food culture to a higher level than the capital, the beautiful traditions of the nation, it is "invitation". To meals, who are busy or are rising, there must be people out invites, such as: "Come to supper a father." When the house was large enough to sit on the wheel, started well with the invitation. Invited in turn from the top down, invited one by one, then renovated bowl.

Invitation to show respect for their attitudes on, love the people below, polite, civilized and polite. On the plate is delicious, ever give parents and grandparents pick up, usually he returned to pick up her grandson (who is a primary home). She or her mother, her eldest daughter, her daughter always sits top of the pot. The first pot to eat slowly, considerate observers both houses, that are about to eat one bowl of rice, then stopped, pick up supper dishes, not for anyone to wait. The owner invited guests, but leave the wheels got up too early when people are eating is taboo as this is not respected guests.

Hanoi food culture influenced historical and cultural essence to the inheritance, enhance and pass on to children is essential, not only today but also tomorrow.

Snails cold noodles in Hanoi Vietnam


House is a rustic nature feed welding, so often made with the spicy, hot.

Yet amazingly, there is a dish made from snails, but from water solution until all ingredients come cold and still taste the exotic.

Building a cold noodle dish of Wildlife, and only belongs to Hanoi Vietnam because only in this city you're new to enjoy. Noodle dish that is shaken by her, and she preferred to eat throughout the year and at any place, from big cities to small streets, in where we can easily find a sales load of this dish.

And cold noodles are not as real estate, there are very few places selling noodles and very few people can be delicious. Bun Tower looks cool though simple yet sophisticated than from selecting raw materials to processing.

To get the most delicious cold noodle dish is snails snails eat moss rocks. This building type has crisp but fat. Spices of snail dish is cold ham. Ham not use any type are mild, if purchased at the market of fresh noodles are used as building cool to throw away. The kind of ham, rice wine distilled from the village suddenly new Van delicious. Choose the material you then do when processing the goods more carefully and more closely

Buildings that are used are not boiled to steamed ham. Snails in greasy bun, chew on crunchy, charming but not particularly fishy taste. What makes the soul of this dish is the soup of freshwater snails in cool, sweet sour, salty medium, the concentration of aromatic ginger and a little spicy heat of chili oil. To get the things that people have to watch snails distilled several times and know-tasting spices separately.

Bun buildings cool buildings would not be cold noodles served with noodles without leaves. No one with cold noodle eating disorders both buildings. Problems with vermicelli noodle only hot property only. If you do the opposite, we've lost the harmony of nature, of earth and heaven! The sludge is small, white, feel free, to put his tongue to see the cool, scented plastics.

In particular, cold noodles and snails are never eaten with herbs. Only noodle, snails and farming only. If you have herbs, food no longer is it any more. Intense aroma of herbs will drown out the sweet smell of ham.

Refinement of Hanoi cuisine is reflected by a sophisticated processing and refinement of these seemingly simple dishes to the delicacies you. Not only that, the human Ha also attaches importance to enjoy food again. Cold noodles are not eating snails, eat to satisfy hunger, cravings, but only sparingly in order to enjoy the broth, remember sorry.

Burden of building cold noodles only in a few places like O Quan Chuong, Nguyen Cao ... but never absent guests. The Hanoi people even remembered to bear away of cold noodles and secretly building would one day return to enjoy a rustic dish, simple but bold national soul.

Monday 2 January 2012

5 nicely noodle restaurants in Hanoi


Which are "variations" unique traditional pho, but if you are a tourist visiting the Hanoi Vietnam capital, you should not be overlooked.

If prompted to Hanoi, the multitude of traditional noodle shop famous. Please do pho, noodle and rice noodle Chang Thin, Pho Ly Quoc Su, Pho Bat now ... But this article does not mention the more traditional pho that want to roll some pho "variations" other. If you are a tourist visiting the capital, perhaps you should not ignore the unique noodle shop follows:

Ngu Xa Pho book



Pho in Hanoi new book has nearly ten years now, and refer to it that people think of Ngu Xa village, located along the Truc Bach Lake, this is because the soil for the birth of this special dish.

Pho his conquered people because it is not only delicious, cool, easy to eat, but also the mouth better than any other pho.

At around Ngu Xa now probably can not count exactly how many of his noodle shop. So here you are "freak" does not know which to choose custom, then prompts you for a store "predestined" most attracted the most visitors, it is customary Ben Hung.

Shop Ben Hung initial small thing but also a thriving should have been expanded greatly. People like to eat this bar is probably due to fairly standard pho. Pho book processing is simple: rice noodles to be cut into the rectangle, so that fit into my heart missed a plate, then fried beef with vegetables in, and finally rolled up like paper books , and the food will end with a sweet sauce. However, the store does not sell is delicious cold noodle place to cool off blades, where the broken butterfly or where his noodle sauce, then mix very bad ...

Only stores are doing quite durable hand Hung, noodles are soft but tough, the book is not torn, beef stir fry is always a new meat, hot food at pho so slightly cooler but still up scents. In addition, the sauce is just mouth-phase, room service, the "pro", plus his mistress extreme applicant has, dinner guests. Because of the advantages that this restaurant is "vote" the most.

Pho noodle stir fry or lead capture Sail Item

Fried noodle dishes are not too familiar with Hanoi. But delicious fried noodles and more specifically only two shops located on the town.

The first shop was at Bat Dan, for those who like to eat noodles fried with soft gu. Shop open year long, all day, but almost always crowded.

Many people addicted to this noodle shop first by viscous sauce, salty salty sweet, soaked into every fiber dai dai noodles, vegetables and beef are very tender fried, so you eat to feel strong, superior special other places. In addition, to combat the day, always accompanied by a disk is a disk noodle salad with a fresh bowl of sauce with fresh papaya filled with vinegar. Many visitors gut here says, "If you eat pho in the lead capture and see all the other places are bland."

Pho at this price is "chat", the disk normal is 35,000 dong to 45,000 dong disk, but the discs are offset quality, fullness, more meat, more vegetables. If you are the slender girl, used to flavor food eating flowers is sure to "amazing sleep."

Every Monday in Salon Sail, suitable for those who like to eat fried noodles ready, dry dry. This shop sells only from level 7 and a half up on, but just roadside stands, but there are so many cool people to eat.

Pho here is carefully fried, noodle strands available to the fire edge very fragrant. Beef is back all the corn has many ribs, fried vegetables and not just to software that fried, very crunchy chew. Similarly Bat Dan, fried noodle has always been "free" add disk raw vegetables and fresh papaya sauce. In addition, to increase appetite, the restaurant also sold more discs ... clever split for guests to eat cucumbers.

Fried Noodle Cart Sails costs 30,000 discs, hear thoughts cheaper in lead capture the essence of disk pho is more expensive by more modest, less meat more.

Luong Van Can chicken noodle soup mix

In Hanoi there are many places selling pancake mix, vermicelli noodles mixed mixed but not much. Noodle shop was crowded mix is ​​probably the best known address of 10, Luong Van Can. Located in the main streets, the sales from the evening until 3am this easy to store the list of people love to play Ha Thanh, and the range 11h-12h onwards last night was rush hour at the bar.

Pho is not too special here, besides the chicken was mixed with bean sprouts, raw vegetables, nuts, non-operating, soy sauce, before serving add lemon juice it is common to both just created aromatic sweet sour sour sweet dishes typical of the mix. The advantage here is the delicious chicken, not the quality of industrial chicken profitable platform broke. Perhaps the use of genuine raw materials chicken processing a blend pho Luong Van Can plump but not much, but still only cost 30,000 dong.

In general, the noodle mix no more distinctive look, but sometimes also help you change the taste.

Fried noodle, fried hearts Nguyen Super



Never widely popular as pho on, noodle stir fried heart only a single address in the near end of Nguyen Super. This is also the favorite of many town residents. So from the beginning is open every night from half 7 onwards range, then this restaurant is always packed with guests sitting down across the sidewalk.

Pho is simply fried noodles disorder, for medium frying pan over medium-thin beat like cake. Fried noodle fried served with a bowl with all sorts of pig organs were fragrant fried with green vegetables, celery. However, to get a plate of delicious fried noodle is not easy: pho to crispy outside, soft inside, fragrant and not be sick, so cooks should require both hands, for the appropriate amount of fat and a loss time. People love this restaurant because most of the noodles that are hard to do other simple.

Add a point of note, customers come here during peak hours (between 8am-9am) often have a long wait the new food.

Price is 15,000 dong fried noodle / stir fry disc and heart depends on the number of people.

Baked the bustling city of Hanoi Vietnam

Now go around the streets of Hanoi Vietnam you can see the sign as "beef," "Incense baked," "Heart baked" ... Here are four baked city "reputation" attract the most customers the capital.

Fragrant, tasty, hot, can sit back rai which is a reasonable price, of the "advantages" that makes fried food is "hot" thing for the young Ha Thanh. So now go around the streets of Hanoi you can see the sign as "beef," "Incense baked," "Heart baked" ... Here are four baked city "reputation" and attract most customers are more the capital. If travelers are also "that water is the" you can consult before you visit to enjoy.


1. Pho Ly Van Phuc grilled chicken legsAbout a dozen years ago, Ly Van Phuc street turn from tiny short on Nguyen Thai Hocvao few people know about. But now, everyone remembers with a familiar name "city chicken legs."


Indeed, this dish makes an attractive street much change meat. There is opportunity here in the evening, regardless of winter or summer, you will easily see the scene as lively festivals. The sign lights grow closely together, stretch car, young men and women sat crowded dining fun in the golden light, spicy mix with the smoke of burning eyes but through the nose tingle ...


Grilled chicken feet dish is simple. The secret key is smart skills marinated with honey and other reductions that absorbed, then grilled over charcoal until both parties in September, while outside the nursery yellow, tan and crispy aromatic feed back. Eat this interesting in that you have painstakingly leisurely "vermin" carefully to fully enjoy the new feeling crispy crunchy, long long, the dish tasted sweet.


"Inheritance" baking dish chicken legs, here is another developing more items like baked chicken wings, flank steak, baked potato, bread ... are "favorite" of the young. Also fairly cheap menu: chicken feet VND 5,000 / skewers, chicken wings, 15,000 VND / oblique so here guests can sit back rai wear jewelry the evening, with straw cover story interesting.



Ly Van Phuc street short but there are too many shops chicken feet. If you are a novice, you will easily "confused", not knowing where to stop. Maybe a small tip for you, a shop and the largest is rumored that the best is located down the street, on the right. According to "legend" this is the first store grilled chicken leg, has undergone a "stormy", only now been settled peacefully.

2. Korean grilled in our city bridgesAge of our city streets grilled chicken legs but shorter, but on the "hot" is still marginally better. If you talk about history, it has undergone a lot of "fighting", "bon chen" is it to be today.


Do not know have to learn from South Korea but it's not the brand name "Heart grilled Korean" arrived in Hanoi around 5-6 years. Not consistent in the first bridge which is in Hang Giay (two streets lying perpendicular to each other). Time, this dish is only small parts that young to old town. Later, another family that has the potential heart baked, immediately quick-learn, then enlisted in the evening city bridges empty, sparse, has set up a different store with the same "brand". But the interesting thing is shop "born late" this has more buds, that have prospered over. And it is consistent with the city variables are no longer dormant bridges when the sun is off again.


Now, just about 6 pm onwards, the city bridges every stall flat shoes, dishes (selling goods during the day session) to make room for the grill, the canvas, furniture ... prepare food for a busy evening.


Referred to as our steaks, but there are many more items. That's the kind of pig organs like heart, colon, stomach, peeled tail, are conservative ... and then, soaked in a little spicy spicy, sweet, man man so flavors are bold, grilled to delicious . Dai dai feeling, soft, hot dish of easily conquered all customers of all ages.Peak heart of the city range grill is 20h. Especially in the winter wind cold day or busy holidays, travel youth players circling the old town and then look east as this gathering, which bridges overloaded streets than ever before. Perhaps delicacies, plus popular price: VND 35,000 / dish (types) makes it ideal place for young Ha Thanh culinary passion.


3. Grilled squid Hang Bo Street



Other than on the streets, grilled squid only city nightlife, around 21h-22h onwards. Now, every stall selling garment accessories of Hang Bo Street was closed off, the owner grilled squid new sidewalks have the opportunity to "range pieces." With only a small charcoal stove, a meter cartridge dry, 5-7 mats, that is elsewhere on this street has a shop can grow grilled squid.

Sip squid lightly with a bottle of vodka, plus a little map "brake" as green mango, bean roots was quiche right of people drinking. Or simply go through it, smell the aroma of grilled squid charm, you can not hold your heart, then swooped in and have added to the Hang Bo street becomes crowded than ever.


Many people are still protected, even in the sea, not sure you enjoy premium inks dry as in the Hang Bo street. Results so, ink Hang Bo "expensive but a piece of iron," his son always thick, sweet flesh. Furthermore the level of professional grill owner will make customers feel satisfactory newly How to eat well, just be cool colorful sidewalk sitting, watching the ancient streets at night.


4. Incense grilled Vietnamese Pho Dai CoCall the city is probably slightly baked "hyperbole", because along the Dai Co Vietnamese restaurant just a couple of incense. However, where this is the first piece of land for the birth of this unique cuisine in Hanoi. Moreover, consistent birth dishes "Softcore baking" is now a professional development and to the extent that we imagine as consistent throughout the city stretches Dai Co Vietnam.


If you do not believe you can visit the address 81 Dai Co Vietnam. In the range 20h-21h dark, you will witness the young men sits packed the sidewalks every centimeter wide, despite the heat the charcoal stove, despite the acrid fumes Car Mat, sit and eat them drinking together for hours and still not want to stop the story.


To ask "light" is what I mean, no one will be cut because this is the generic name of type of trench is very rich as bacon, heart, colon, mushrooms, beef, octopus ... Perhaps the owner thought This name also to attract the attention of customers.


Eating grilled incense, you can not enjoy a lazy way as the items on which to "masturbation". That is consistent only give guests the dishes were marinated, but "the work of baking" is yours. So to have pieces you'll have to eat a little tough, just wait, just to flip the food constantly. But the feeling of "hand-made chewing function" is also one of the items that became more interesting incense. Imagine, on the evening of winter rainfall in the wind rushes, the same group of friends sitting around the glowing charcoal stove, sip broth grilled meats, there's nothing like that?

Sunday 1 January 2012

Hanoi Vietnam - Hang Co station old memories

Since being put into operation in 1902, Hang Co station, now the Hanoi Vietnam train station is considered an important traffic hub with five branch railway to the parts of the country.
Ga area extends almost all the South line (now Le Duan Street), beginning from the city (now known as Nguyen Extension) to Kham Thien, is the headquarters of the management unit locomotives, rolling stock, signaling information and administration of railway transport. This is where the agency advised the leaders of industry-oriented development strategy, the modernization of Vietnam's railway sector.
French Le Duan called the liquid, then in 1954 into South Road, later known as now. When the new terminal building area, the liquid through the Vinh Xuong, Nam Mon, Fishery and Four United America, continuing the line from the door into Hanoi Vietnam - also known as Yao German border. She turns over the Village of the SU to the Temple of Literature, which went straight down the Bay Mau Lake in Ly Nhan, Nam Dinh to the hand in, ie Quan Lo. Later in 1946, the French Red Mosque Tiling change this, but people still call the liquid used.
Specifically Tan Da, meeting Western train traffic has poems about "la station (la Gare) Hang Co", because this place sold the grass for horse racing nearby, this place after the name change to Sauté Sport, Theatre Anthropology Dan is now the Culture Palace Vietnamese Friendship - Russia. Bridge opened in 1902 when Doumer (the Long Bien bridge) across the Red River Hang Co station is completed and put into use for the kilogram-meters of the first railway to Gia Lam. Then the French built the railway to Hanoi - Nam Dinh - Ninh Binh on May 1-1903, Hanoi - Hai Phong on May 4-1903, and the Hanoi - Lao Cai on May 4-1905. Private railway north - south through Vietnam, but Saigon was started very early, in 1900, but not until 1936 - that 37 years later, to complete fully. Axis through Vietnam and the East - West in the North has created a system of passenger and freight backbone of Vietnam even before until now.
Now the doors Hanoi railway station (built in 1902) no longer exists. During the raid to destroy Hanoi by air over 12 days and nights of the U.S. in late May 12-1972, the main lobby of the station was destroyed. Then the hall was rebuilt under the new architecture in 1976 and completed on the occasion of the Unified Information railway, linking the North - South split after 30 years.
Time of war, rail transportation became the main. Winning ticket to be very difficult to train. In looking at the operator's station, voice heard through the speakers complicated levels, not what was tired of cramped. Rare, and crashing through the door to the right. Crowded, messy ball up the court order, though darkness there was capacity may stand all night. To the 80 th century before the boat is still very hard. There are tour guides sheet is a public work. Customers always winter, holiday, New Year is packed. Guest clinging anywhere, including on the roof of buildings, articulated carriages and steps up and down. Many people look scene but did not dare get married (husband) away or "broken" home every occasion anniversary pace.
After over 20 years of renovation, Hanoi ga ga over the captain. There are many capabilities that meeting, Thao, Lecturer, Communication ... now is engineer Vu Dinh vegetables. Railways have many models and mechanisms of local organizations from unions to enterprises ... corporations with multiple generations of leaders dedicated as the Ha Dang, Sharon, Union Move, Dao Dinh Binh, Nguyen Huu Bang ... Communications and Development, we have many options, sticky-authoritarian, backward hard to survive. To innovate constantly. Each personnel, railroad workers often remembered for a maxim of the innovation process himself, his unit: "The rights along with responsibilities and powers coupled with responsibility." Almost regardless of who the machine will improve the sense of self-responsibility in their position. That part to help the industry survive and make progress in many areas.
One task is to bring greater efficiency upgrades railway bridge across the network, as a basis for shortening the train journey, especially on the route of Unification. In 1983, the ship north - south running at 52 hours. After more than 10 years reduced to 48 hours and 10 next year in May 12-2004 fast boats run only 28 hours, usually on time 99% rate ... The shorter routes from Hanoi to Haiphong, Dong Dang, Lao Cai ... appearance of fast trains.
Shorten the time train travel is the most strenuous and arduous is the most successful railways in Vietnam renovation. But it is not enough. And to build the station, the train according to the criteria "culture - formal - safety." As a result, have long been warning vendors not on board. With a series of changes in the substance of the industry, passengers find comfortable, sympathetic to the railway over an increasingly larger.
Today, Hanoi station was spacious and civilized and polite to the train waiting room, waiting room hotel transnational, internet systems, electronic signage for customers easy to find online, said the station, my train ... In particular, system management automated ticket reservation increasingly promote efficiency. He comes to Hanoi train station has felt the dedicated staff from each service, always willing to help them to have a comfortable trip.
Hanoi now has 8 ga lane roads, trains stop to pick up and discharge passengers, all of which are suffering 1m. Besides the traditional carriage of Germany, India, China, appeared the locomotives and coach a new generation of travel along the two-storey buildings, furniture "such as luxury hotels." A ga Park Le Duan Street side door pick-up/drop-off service to North - South, to Dong Dang (Lang Son) and Hai Phong. Zone B-side ga Tran Quy Cap serve routes Lao Cai, Yen Bai, Quan Trieu (Thai Nguyen). Such clues, the Hanoi railway station occupied 1 / 2 volume of railway transport company in Hanoi and in one fifth of the entire output of the Corporation of Vietnam Railways. Every day, in addition to five lines derived from the kilogram-meter, "not" of Vietnam railway line also has to Ha Long, calculated from Yen Vien Station.
Speaking to the Hanoi railway station, now young people are not surprised with the story of "horror train" of parents pay the past. They are also difficult to imagine. After years of renovation, Hanoi station has more beautiful, more service quality improvement, worthy of the railway station hub of Vietnam.

Find the "Chinatown ancient" in Hanoi


Throughout the world, "Chinatown" is never alien concept. Do you know in Hanoi Vietnam also existed  Chinatown neighborhood?

Find old traces of these "small alley, a small town" must be a lovely hint of collecting weather in Hanoi. And why in this weekend, do not you try a "tour" around the city orphanage?

Through these photos today, I let them find traces ancient Chinatown modernity hidden in Light Version!


At about the 17th century, the Chinatown most migrants are concentrated in Ta Hien street, Hang Sails. And to explore the history of ancient streets in Hanoi Hoa, maybe we should start with Ta Hien street.

Part time today famous for its souvenir products for tourists: nem chua fried potato chips, iced tea ... 266m long street (old town by a few paragraphs into one long street), formerly raw ward the land is Hekou, Tho Xuong district old.

Everyone is calling this street with familiar names as Patrick Tse, but in fact the correct name of the Ta Hien street. Ta Hien is one of the few streets still retain almost intact the original architectural.

It is still the narrow alley known as the gateway from the ancient Quang Lac, where the opera is famous Quang Lac at the time.

From the theater through lane, which is the intersection of streets Galet (Luong Ngoc Quyen) having more than ten huts are small one-story house aging and cramped. The house below Quang Lac theaters and restaurants are open to serve refreshments to the theater or going out at night. Owner mostly residential customers; they sell from lemon juice, warm tea ... to rice porridge, noodles, Van Than ... Cramped shop, cook stove right next door.

Opposite the cinema Quang Lac is a fork, a more alleys, known as Sam Lane is also the majority of vessels. They do all kinds of occupations: porters for the import and export trade in some of Hang Sail, Dao Duy Tu, made public in the stores, street vendors, roast, dumplings, sesame black tea to sell things, sweet tea, donuts ... to the city. Along the lane Sam has over a dozen of the houses, which are also small cramped.

Neighborhood retail range of existing homes was 10-piece, built from the early 20th century. The house has two floors, sloping tiled roof, the same shape. Inside is an even row houses have a similar architecture, but provide Vietnam with a traditional second floor was built over backward into the first floor adjacent to the road.

This is the old town was chosen for restoration, renovation pilot celebrate the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long - Hanoi, conducted by the cooperation between Hanoi and Toulouse (France). The entire front end area of ​​Ta Hien - Luong Ngoc Quyen intersection cut was restored, renovated old identical architecture. Project construction started on 11/11/2010 and ends on 06/30/2011.

Part time down the street, we will come to Hang Sails. Street has a length of 300m, the ancient land is located next door ward Hekou Lich river, through the Red River. Due to geographical location as so ancient residents living mainly by working capital related to water. Our products are mainly sold on the street that is the type of equipment, bags, blister, sails, mats woven rattan and rush sail. The material is transported to the city boat, and finished products are the boats that transported elsewhere.

According to the documents left behind, in the early 19th century, the presence of Chinatown trade gradually Sails Item formed in Chinatown. When the French arrived in Hanoi in 1872, the Chinatown goods overseas Sails has a large house and Pub Association. Since then, Guangdong Assembly Hall was built right on the street, this place is a childhood nursery school.

In the years varied from 1873 to 1882, the Chinatown overseas traders get rich quick and focused more and more here, where the Vietnamese gradually moved to the other cities, Daily Sail into a "city hotel" with the shops of the Chinatown wealth, prosperity.

They opened several popular restaurants and Ship Sails Every roast is a legacy that they left in Hanoi. Today, meat is a special recording of Hang Sails. The store's famous roast the Futian city (number 103), Central Register (No. 109), Dong Phu (No. 117) and especially Van Thanh (No. 108), always crowded.

Today the town has many shops selling candy, melon seeds pumpkin seeds, and all the famous dishes such as roast available, vermicelli, dummy .... Along with that is the type of alcohol beverage. The Tet Trung Thu and, where very busy.

Besides the old definition of the U.S. in the 19th century, Hang Buom was one of the few streets that change one architecture over time. The famous White Horse Temple is located at the 76 buildings are quite large, in-depth planning, starting Sail Hang Ngo Gach Street, built in the Southeast, close to Sail Every street.