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Amidst the freezing cold of the coldest spell of the year, indulging in a steaming bowl of cassava or floating cake sweet soup, feeling the comforting warmth spreading, is a delightful experience.
You can enjoy dishes like floating green tea cake, cassava sweet soup, black bean sweet soup, or green bean sweet soup with prices ranging from 15,000 to 20,000 VND after exploring Hanoi.
Green tea floating cake at Hang Tre Street
Green tea floating cake, with its enticing color and distinctive flavor, has long been a familiar destination for many diners.
The venue allures with its steaming hot ginger-infused sweet soup, slightly spicy. The floating cakes are adorned with a refreshing green tea color, completely different from the usual white color at other floating cake shops.
The filling for the floating cakes is also uniquely flavored with finely ground mung beans and taro, offering a balanced sweetness. The cake crust is skillfully prepared, fragrant and chewy, blending with the creamy sweet soup, not overly sweet, highly appealing to diners. The price for each bowl of sweet soup is approximately 15,000 - 20,000 VND.
Hot cassava sweet soup at Ly Quoc Su Street
This is a familiar snack for Hanoi's food enthusiasts in the winter afternoon. The eatery is located on the bustling Ly Quoc Su street and opens from 10 am to 12 pm. Diners here vary in age, all wanting to eat slowly to feel the warmth slowly spreading throughout their bodies.
The dessert here is famous for its fragrant aroma, nutty flavor, and glossy brown-yellow soup. The cassava pieces, as big as matchboxes, are stewed until soft but not mushy, blending with the spicy hot, fragrant scent of ginger, very enticing.
When customers order, the owner scoops cassava dessert from the steaming pot, sprinkles a few strands of freshly grated coconut. When you eat, you will feel the fragrant aroma of coconut milk, the earthy flavor of cassava, never getting tired of it. The price of a bowl of cassava dessert ranges from 10,000 to 15,000 VND.
Cassava Dessert by Mrs. Thơm, Quan Thanh Street
With its rustic, traditional flavor, Mrs. Thơm's dessert has nearly 40 years of history in Hanoi and is always a stop for diners every afternoon.
What could be more interesting than stepping into the eatery, ordering a bowl of steaming hot dessert on a cold day, feeling the warmth of the bowl spreading. The dessert dish is not too elaborate, just black bean or green bean dessert but served hot. It's the simplicity that creates the allure of this dish.
The coconut milk is homemade by the owner herself, very rich and creamy. Black beans here are simmered to perfection, just right in sweetness, with thick soup. Besides the two main desserts, there's also floating dessert, mainly cooked with brown sugar so it's very fragrant. The owner also makes the coconut milk herself, very creamy and rich. A bowl of dessert costs around 15,000 VND and the eatery opens at 3 p.m.
