Hi and a huge welcome to Steve's kitchen
We're in Hanoi, got all the bikes around
it is crazy in the city. I'm going to
take you out on the street tonight and
we're going to try 10 of the best Hanoi
street food, probably from a tourist
perspective. I'm actually going to be
doing another video later, on secret food
in Hanoi, so watch out for that video and
we're also going to be doing Sweet Treats. So
for now let's get out on the street of
old Hanoi City and taste obviously
the Pho of course and we're having bun Cha
which is a similar sort of dish but a
little different and we won't be
forgetting just here, where I'm going to
start this tour up with a Banh My, it's
like a French bread stick, it's very
French influence as well, they often put
the pate inside and a forced meat, come
on let's start with Banh My. Can I have
the roast chicken? yeah. So I'm going
to have this Banh My. The lady's.... now I
love the way they open these up with the
scissors, they cut them open rather than
slice them, quite practical I suppose.
So we've got a nice pate going on there
first but whether you ask for it
we're going to get that pate. I would
not have it. Oh no thats chicken....You asked
for chicken. Oh Yeah Chicken.
25 so it's 25,000 dong which is about in
Australian about a dollar fifty, probably
a little bit less in US. Now they're
filling that up with salads but also
something that really give this great
flavor, the coriander. So I've got my roast
chicken in there, I've got all those
lovely flavours that Pate as well.
I can tell you, it smells delicious. Tastes
fantastic, the pate is fresh and delicious, the
chicken is gorgeous and tender, then you've
got that coriander and salad in there, this
is so good. The reason I like this place is
I think the pate is better than a lot of
places. I will leave it on my tour guide
down below, lets get on. Now here in Hanoi
you'll find the streets are divided up into
districts of similar themes. We're on
Hang Bo at the moment and this street is
all haberdashery, you've got ribbons
you've got beads, labels, anything you want
to do with haberdashery. All the shops
down here will be selling a similar
theme and that is the same with the food
in Hanoi as well. Chances are if you find
a street that has great Street food its
neighbors and all the way down the
street will also have fantastic street
food. Time for some Pho, we've come to
a little place just around the corner
from where we're staying Pho Ga, so it's
on 7th Dinh Liet street. I'll try and get
the right pronunciation. is this kaffir
oh no lemon leaf, lemon leaf
thank you 'cảm ơn' beautiful. The ladies
sorting me out some beautiful chicken, we've
just tried..... they've got the lemon leaves....
I don't think it's kaffir lime leaves
it's a little softer, we've got the
spring onions sliced up, definitely going
to be some coriander in there as well
I'm really looking forward to this one
it looks really fresh and crisp. Lets wait for it to
be bought out. Four on a bike just
pulled up nicely
So you can see all the herbs on top of that
pot, pick yourself out out some communal
chopsticks. Now look we've got all the
beautiful shredded chicken on here, we've
got some little spring onions that have
been sliced up, we have some chives and
we've got this wonderful consomme or
it's a chicken broth. Give it a try.
You don't tend to slurp up your noodles
like you would with spaghetti you just
sort of snap them off or bite them off.
I'm becoming a real Pho addict. Fresh,
gorgeous now what you should probably do
is take a little bit of lime as well, so
we take a bit of fresh lime and just
squeeze it in there, ooh hoo got me in the eye.
little bit of chili too, it doesn't have to have
too much chili to be honest. Come in
take a look at the broth, its got this
wonderful clear broth not too greasy
packed full of flavour actually a little
bit of white pepper black pepper on that
will just improve it a tiny bit. The
heats coming into the soup now oh yeah
so good
a bit of chili in there, a little bit
of that spring onion
Oh chilis just hit the back of my throat, they're
hot chilis. So good
I can just taste that little lemon leaf
in there as well
So you know Hanoi has great Pho let's
get on and enjoy some other delights of
Hanoi ......Australia......
Melbourne....... yeah.........This is Banh Trang Tron and
this is fish
oh..... yeah ......Squid..... nice...... then I've got a little
a little quail egg as well.
we've got this ..... spicy beef
floss which is really nice, this is
lovely eh! l Iike this
Oh and it's spicy as well eh under here the base
so is that the mango....its Banh Trang.....Banh Trang this ......
ok so this... oh that beef is lovely
this is the Banh Trang
and no, no noodle.. it is sort of like a
stretch, like a noodle like a rice noodle
here. so this is the Banh Trang. It's nice..... Banh Trang Tron
its like a, like a mix
salad, vegetables, its quite nice......green mango I think and
some papaya and a little bit of spice
and then on top they put up the beef
floss.... a little bit by spicy
couple of quail eggs......
they're lovely yeah.... So on the corner of
the street here, you've got the very famous and
popular Pho 10 but I really like the
Com Pho, this one just here. Now the
spring rolls in Hanoi are fantastic
and we want to try both the fried spring
rolls and the fresh spring rolls. This
place looks as good as any, they look
delicious. We actually came passed here
last night and a lot of people were
eating, these tables were completely full.
We've come a little bit earlier today so
we can get in before the crowds come and
I reckon these are going to be
absolutely delicious. There look at these
beautiful fresh spring rolls, they've got
the chicken inside, they'll be full up with
lovely herbs and flavours, a little bit of
salads, some springs in there. You dip it
in this little, it's sort of like a fish
sauce not very spicy.
oh that is so good, beautiful, aromatic
light not at all greasy
okay now by comparison these are the
fried spring rolls and this is a pork
fried spring roll, lovely crispy texture
comes with a little bit of salad and
some herbs here on the side. Again we've
got the sauce, similar sort of fish
sauce, just a light refreshing sauce I'm
going to take my spring roll and just
dip it in the sauce, here goes.
Delicious not too greasy
you get the Pork in there, it's not as
light and refreshing as the the fresh
spring roll but I still absolutely
love these. We'll just take a little bit of
this Fresh salad as well,
coriander,I love coriander. Now these
doughnuts are fresh off the streets, the lady
here is cooking them up, they're
absolutely gorgeous. Now unlike the ones
that are being handed out around the old
town which have been on those baskets
all day, these are lovely and fresh, give
it a try, Oh
delicious, the oil is slightly savoury, not
super sweet, you've got the Sesame on
there, you've got the beautiful little
donut. Now also inside the donut there's
like a white bean paste, it's slightly
sweetened almost vanilla flavor. Another
great advantage of these little Donuts
are they are gluten-free as well and this
being a cooking channel more than the
travel channel we will be covering these
donuts as a recipe on Steve's Kitchen at
a later date. It's amazing there's a
constant flow of people coming up to the
store, picking up donuts on the back of
their scooters and off they go and a few
seconds later another one appears. Now
we've been recommended to a place and
this isn't a place where you'll find any
tourists as well and I think sometimes
it's good to get off the beaten track
and try something very local. I hope I
don't spoil this by sharing with you
this place is called Quan Sam and I'm not
sure if i pronounced that right
Obviously they do this beautiful barbecue it's
shut at the moment but I've got some
nice footage from last night to share
with you.....good ....it's good .....yeah food is
good . Quan Sam...Qaun Sam... yeah... The strange thing is
we just.... we just met the..... one of the guys
from here.... is it your your restaurant?
you're you're the boss.... yeah.... okay so this
is the guy that owns this restaurant, we
had fantastic food here the other night
and we will be back .....thank you ....yes ....one of
the great things the smoky BBQ in here
is so good you are going to come away
with your clothes absolutely stinking of
BBQ but great memories.
Now this little Bun Cha was
recommended to me by a youtuber actually
a guy that I was looking here in
Vietnam. He's got a great little YouTube
channel it's called Pho your eyes only.
the beautiful thing about this Bun Cha
is that they're actually doing the pork
on the open coals there and they are using
the bamboo little pegs to hold the
meat in place. So you get this gorgeous .....look at
the little charring on here this is pork
belly it's got a beautiful beautiful
texture. Now I'm going to try just the
belly on itself, oh that is so so good
got all that wood charm, all the
coke char in there, so we've got a
gorgeous clear broth. Now the idea is with
Bun Cha unlike the Pho, you take
some of your fresh noodles, beautiful fresh
rice noodles, pop them in in with your
sauce in with your broth, take some
of these....... cảm ơn.....Thank you..... at this
point the ladies just brought out a
little plate of freshly fried Nem.
These are like a little spring roll
square spring roll packed full of
vegetables and pork and all sorts of
great flavors. Now I've got this great big pile
here of salads, coriander salad there's
mint in here, bean sprouts as well. I'm
going to pop this in with my broth let
it just wilt down, Now if you like a little
bit of chili in there, pop the chili on top
give it a little mix through. I'm in bun cha
heaven. Let's go with this, spicy
coriander, tastes absolutely delicious
get a little bit of pork belly as well
this is real Bun Cha, real full
flavored delicious Bun Cha, all the
details will be on Steve's Kitchen.com
on the website. So that fantastic Bun Cha
if you want to find it it's just
next to the the Wolfhound pub and Phat
Loc the end of the lane here fantastic
Bun Cha really delicious. Now on to
something else. Okay I'm going to have
the.....this is the guy..... Michele's filming.....
this is the guy that helped and served us last
time with the che. So first of all he's
going to take a fresh coconut and he's
just taking the top off. Now for some
reason this time he's given me the
coconut water he didn't do that last
time but maybe it's because I'm a
regular now. Now firstly he's filling the
inside of the coconut with ice cream, putting a
little bit of shredded coconut in the
center and then he puts this beautiful
swirl of ice cream on top, in goes some
pieces of jackfruits, a little more
shredded coconut and then some pieces of
this beautiful toasted coconut, thank you.
So get some nice photos, so here it is, that
looks beautiful, doesn't that look beautiful.
I'm saving the coconut water for
Michele, I'm just going to get some of
this stuff I want some of that toasted
coconut
here we go
sweet, cold, delicious. Got the little
jackfruit in here
Little pieces of jackfruit, a little bit
of toasted coconut.... yeah.... When you've
finished pay the old lady's sat on the
opposite side of the street, she is the
cashier......cảm ơn..... thank you. I enjoyed..... So that
was our coconut ice cream on To Tich street
fantastic great and the girls that we
actually met are just coming down here
look ....whats the chances.... really ....
I've just had one ....so what is the chances
that we've bumped into a couple of
girls that we met this morning when we
were having Bun Cha on To Tich. We told
them tabout the ice cream on the street
and they come over to try it as well, it
was superb, absolutely gorgeous so
onwards to something new. Now in every
city you visit in the world there's
going to come a time when you just need
a little bit of comfort food.
Now this place behind me is probably the equivalent
of a KFC here in Hanoi, simple food very
inexpensive but the ribs and rice here are
really good, so I would put this on a list of
my top foods in Hanoi even though it's
not really a traditional style food it's
good eating, come on let's go inside. Now
the first thing they're going to do is
bring you out a little bowl of broth
with some vegetables and spring greens in it.
Now in some respects this can be a little
superfluous but it's a very tasty broth anyway.
Now they've brought out my ribs here look
how beautiful these ribs are I've got
three pieces of pork rib, got the fried
rice,a little bit of pickled cabbage
and some vegetables. OK let's get this
fried rice a try ok
superb simple fried, rice great flavor
and we've got these gorgeous ribs here
beautiful sticky, tender pork. Falls off
the bone. Now there is great food here in
Hanoi and the street food is to die for,
but just occasionally old style ribs and
rice. There will be details on my website if
you want to take the food tour from the
Steves Kitchen website I'll try and put up a map
there of some sort so that you can see
where we've been. Get across, share the
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see you in the next video, Take care.