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In the renowned ancient streets, where prices often soar, these spots offer a hearty breakfast for as little as 10 to 30,000 dong, ensuring a satisfying start to your day.
Uncover 6 fantastic breakfast eateries in Hanoi, serving dishes perfectly suited for the cold weather, all for under 30,000 dong.
1. Hàng Lược Bun Moc
Hàng Lược Bun Moc has been serving for over 30 years, offering only one dish: Bun Moc. Despite its simplicity, the eatery is always bustling in the morning. Finding a plastic table for 5 or 6 is typical, and during peak hours, guests eagerly wait for a spot, eyeing tables for any sign of vacancy.
This place serves a truly authentic Bun Moc, consisting solely of minced pork balls, mushrooms, wood ear fungus, and a hint of bamboo shoots. The minced pork balls are exceptionally flavorful, especially the wood ear fungus and fragrant mushrooms, creating a delightful culinary experience. Although each pork ball is roughly the size of a thumb, the generous portion ensures no one leaves unsatisfied.
Next to the flavorful bowl of bun, this eatery also offers very affordable prices, with a regular bowl of noodles priced at around 25,000 dong, and adding extra toppings only costs 30,000 dong. The shop operates from early morning until around 10 am every day.
2. Hang Trong Vermicelli Soup
Hang Trong vermicelli soup can be considered one of the signature dishes of Hanoi. However, perhaps due to its somewhat intricate preparation, there aren't many places selling this dish nowadays. One of the bustling spots for vermicelli soup in the Old Quarter is Tu Lun vermicelli soup on Hang Trong Street.
The shop actually sells two dishes: vermicelli soup and chicken pho, but the vermicelli soup receives higher praise and more orders. A bowl of vermicelli contains various ingredients such as pork sausage, sliced eggs, shredded chicken, dried turnips, coriander, mushrooms, shrimp paste upon request... beautifully presented and immersed in a flavorful broth, satisfyingly warm and stimulating to the hungry stomach.
A bowl of Hang Trong vermicelli soup or chicken pho is priced at an average of 25,000 to 30,000 dong per bowl. Generally, the prices are quite reasonable within the Old Quarter, which is known for its high cost of living. The shop operates all day and provides both indoor seating and sidewalk tables.
3. Hang Bo Pork Rib Porridge
Despite being a sidewalk eatery, the selling speed of the pork rib porridge shop on Hang Bo street is enough to make any other establishment jealous. Starting sales around 6:30 and often sold out before 9 o'clock, so recently, the shop owner cooks more to meet the demand of customers. By around 10 o'clock, the porridge here is completely sold out.
With 28 years of experience, the pork rib porridge shop on Hang Bo street is addictive due to its smooth porridge like cream, fragrant rice aroma, and just-right stickiness. That porridge alone is delicious, and when combined with shredded pork, minced meat, and crispy breadsticks, it becomes even more delicious. Therefore, customers coming here to eat or buy takeaway are very crowded. Sitting down to eat a bowl of porridge, in less than 10 minutes, the shop adds another pot of fresh porridge to sell.
If you come to eat porridge and encounter a new pot being served, don't forget to ask the shop owner for some burnt porridge. The soft, chewy, and fragrant burnt pork rib will make you remember it forever. The price of a bowl of Hang Bo pork rib porridge ranges from 10,000 to 20,000 dong, depending on the size of the bowl.
4. Sticky Rice at Hang Bai
When mentioning good breakfast spots in the Old Quarter, one cannot overlook Mrs. May's sticky rice at the intersection of Hang Bai and Ly Thuong Kiet. This sticky rice stall is originally just a sidewalk cart, but in terms of crowdedness, perhaps many establishments dream of having customers standing around the cart, waiting to buy, especially during peak hours from around 7 to past 7 o'clock.
Selling sticky rice for nearly 25 years, Mrs. May's cart sells corn sticky rice, mixed sticky rice, and peanut sticky rice, but the hottest and most popular dish here is the mixed sticky rice. Because although it's all mixed sticky rice, Mrs. May's version is a harmonious combination of soft, non-hardening grains with well-cooked mung beans, soft, chewy, fragrant like melting in the mouth. The fried shallots here are crispy and fragrant, different from the dry shallots bought in bulk by other eateries.
A pack of mixed sticky rice with pork costs only 10,000 dong, and if eaten with pork sausage, the price is only 15,000 dong. Rain or shine, Mrs. May only sells from 6 to 9 o'clock, selling out 2-3 large baskets of sticky rice, sometimes even earlier.
5. Cau Go Sticky Rice Cake
On Cau Go street, there are 2 sticky rice cake vendors right next to each other, with prices just slightly different, and both are very famous, namely Quan sticky rice cake and Lan sticky rice cake. If you want to find delicious, affordable food, nothing beats grabbing one of these cakes from one of the two vendors.
The cake is wrapped in a soft outer layer of sticky rice, inside the cake is fragrant with leaves, rich with mung beans, pork belly, spicy pepper, it's absolutely delicious. The price of Quan sticky rice cake is 13,000 dong/piece, Lan sticky rice cake is 12,000 dong/piece. The shop operates from early morning until around 8 or 9 o'clock at night, or until sold out.
6. Mrs. Huệ's Snail Noodle Soup
Mrs. Huệ's tiny snail noodle soup shop is located at the end of Nguyen Sieu street, intersecting with Hang Giay street. Mrs. Huệ mentioned that all the ingredients for selling snail noodle soup every day are prepared by her from Khoai Chau, Hung Yen, then she and her 5 children transport them to the street from dawn to be able to sell breakfast to urban residents going to work.
Mrs. Huệ's homemade vermicelli has 2 main dishes: hot snail vermicelli and cold snail vermicelli, depending on each person's taste, customers can request large snails, small snails, or a mix... The bowl of hot vermicelli is truly traditional, with only simple ingredients like snails, tomatoes, and fragrant herbs. Yet, the bowl is rich, fragrant, delicious down to the last drop.
After 30 years of selling snail vermicelli in the Old Quarter, Mrs. Huệ's vermicelli stall has become a familiar destination for many. Mrs. Huệ revealed that every day from 5 am to 3 pm, she sells out all 6 baskets of snails. The price of vermicelli here is only 20,000 dong for a small bowl of snail vermicelli, 30,000 dong for a large bowl. Perhaps that's why if anyone has ever tried Mrs. Huệ's snail vermicelli, they all remember, crave, and want to come back to eat multiple times.
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Reference: Travel guide from Mytour
MytourNovember 6th, 2017
