Top 13 Long-Standing Tea Houses in Hanoi

For connoisseurs of tea in Hanoi, one cannot overlook Quán Chè Mười Sáu on Ngô Thì Nhậm Street. Hanoians have long had a refined taste for indulging in afternoon tea, deeply ingrained in the culinary culture for many years, often seen at the corner of Lê Văn Hưu – Ngô Thì Nhậm intersection.

As one of the oldest and most delicious tea houses in Hanoi, established around 1976, this tiny tea shop nestled in a corner attracts numerous visitors every day.

Compared to newer tea houses, Quán Chè Mười Sáu may seem a bit lacking in variety, offering traditional flavors like floating rice cake, roasted young sticky rice, and black bean sweet soup. However, the taste here is unique. The sweet, fragrant flavor of green beans and black beans, combined with fresh coconut, has been enticing customers for over 30 years. The well-cooked beans, sweet yet balanced, with an average price ranging from 8,000 to 10,000 VND only. Surely, one visit here will make you want to come back for more.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Address: 16 Ngô Thì Nhậm, Hai Bà Trưng District, Hanoi

Opening Hours: 07:00 - 18:30

Price Range: 5,000 VND - 25,000 VND

Mrs. Chi - Porridge & Tea is located at C8 Kim Liên, Đống Đa District, Hanoi, very convenient for transportation. The teas come with various fillings, each with its own style. The amount of ice is just right so it's not overly sweet, very refreshing and fragrant. The best part is the coconut milk, thick and creamy without any factory-like smell.

The teas here are just right in sweetness and not cloying, perhaps that's why the teas here are very popular with customers, especially young people. In addition, when you visit the shop, you will also have the opportunity to enjoy countless other teas such as: avocado jelly fruit tea, grapefruit tea, Thai durian tea, mixed tea, mango tea... very enticing and waiting for you.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Address: C8 Kim Liên, Đống Đa District, Hanoi

Opening hours: 11:00 - 18:30

Price range: 10,000đ - 20,000đ

When it comes to Hanoi's sweet soups in the Old Quarter, Four Seasons Sweet Soup at Hàng Cân Street is probably a familiar address for many people. Four Seasons Sweet Soup has long been considered a traditional sweet soup shop in Hanoi. Regardless of whether it's winter or summer, the shop always has its own attraction for diners. Established since 1975, starting with simple and rustic sweet soups, imbued with Hanoi's essence. Four Seasons Sweet Soup has been constantly developing, perfecting, and innovating over more than 40 years to bring the best quality sweet soups not only to domestic customers but also to foreign tourists.

The shop has the advantage of being located right on the main street in the central area of the Old Quarter. However, perhaps because it's located in the Old Quarter, the shop space is quite small, every evening, it's crowded with customers, some even have to sit on the sidewalk. But if you're someone who enjoys the bustling streets characteristic of Hanoi, then the shop is a very suitable and interesting place to visit.

True to its name, the special point of Four Seasons Sweet Soup is that the shop often changes its menu according to the seasons. If summer comes, there's yogurt with sticky rice, green beans, black beans, while winter brings floating cakes, lotus seed sweet soup... Instead of the usual green and red jellies often seen in sweet soup shops, the sweet soups here have a quite traditional taste, simple ingredients but still enough to captivate people's hearts.

The sweet soups here have a sweet and delicate flavor. Jasmine-flavored pearl tea sweet soup with fragrant aroma, clear lotus seed water, soft and sweet lotus seeds, crispy pearls in the mouth. Green bean sweet soup is fragrant, cool, smooth, not too thick. Each cup of sweet soup brings customers a very pleasant experience.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Address: 4 Hàng Cân, Hoàn Kiếm District, Hanoi

Phone: 098 458 3333

Fanpage: https://www.facebook.com/che4mua.hangcan

Mrs. Thơm Sweet Soup - Quán Thánh brings the taste of Hanoi sweet soups with its own distinctive features and flavors that are hard to mix. Each sweet soup impresses diners not only with its color and taste but also from its name itself. They make us curious to taste or easily imagine the dish in a special way. Mrs. Thơm Sweet Soup - Quán Thánh is no exception, you should experience and evaluate the taste of the sweet soups here yourself.

Mrs. Thơm Sweet Soup provides attentive and enthusiastic service, and the portions are quite generous, which can make you full. If you have a date here, remember to try the grapefruit sweet soup, it's really delicious. The flavor is rich and not too sweet or overpowering. Mrs. Thơm Sweet Soup is a familiar address for delicious floral sweet soups in Hanoi.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Address: 146 Quán Thánh, Ba Đình District, Hanoi

Opening hours: 14:30 - 22:30

Reference price: 15,000đ - 30,000đ

Have you ever heard of a very special sweet soup shop called Sweet Soup Wood? It's a small but famous sweet soup shop located on Trần Phú Street. The shop owner shared that he chose the name Sweet Soup Wood because he wanted the shop to have a unique name that everyone would remember, and because the main ingredients of the shop's sweet soups are mainly taken from various types of wooden plants. The shop's almond sweet soup is loved by many for its sweet and easy-to-eat flavor.

The cool taste of the sweet soup with pieces of almond cheese, creamy cashews, and sweet longans melting on the tip of the tongue is irresistible. The shop owner is elderly, so every step is carefully and meticulously executed. However, a small note is that in the morning, the shop only sells inside the alley, while in the evening, they move the goods outside to the main street.

Contact Information:
Address: 9 Trần Phú, Ba Đình District, Hanoi

Opening hours: 10:00 - 17:00 | 19:30 - 22:30

Price range: 10,000 VND - 20,000 VND

Despite Hanoi having hundreds, even thousands of sweet soup shops, when craving for a simple cup of pomelo sweet soup, consisting only of sweet soup, pomelo slices, and coconut juice, yet still delicious until the last bite. Grandma Lan's Traditional Sweet Soup is tiny with a wealth consisting of only 2 pots of sweet soup and coconut juice, a jar of sugar, a coffee bottle neatly stacked in a small tin box, with a few plastic chairs as seats for customers. The sweet soup is cooked from decades of experience of the shop owner, resulting in a sticky but not too hard sweet soup, soft beans but still whole, especially the crispy pomelo slices, not bitter, crunchy when eaten, very enjoyable.

Even the coconut juice is homemade, not using ready-made coconut juice. Besides pomelo sweet soup, you can also try coconut juice with sugar, coffee to feel the fragrant, rich taste of coconut blending with the slight bitterness of coffee and the sweetness of sugar.

Contact Information:
Address: 32 Hàng Đào, Hoàn Kiếm District, Hanoi

Opening hours: 11:00 - 22:00

Price range: 15,000 VND - 35,000 VND

When asked about favorite sweet soup spots in Hanoi, many young people didn't need to spend too much time thinking and quickly mentioned Granny Thin's Sweet Soup. Originating from the wandering gift baskets of the Old Quarter since the 1930s, until now, Granny Thin's sweet soup has become a branded snack spot in Hanoi. At the beginning of each winter season, Granny Thin's sweet soup stall is always crowded with customers. For Hanoians, this is almost a subconscious sweet soup spot, regardless of distance, they always stop by here to eat.

Mentioning Granny Thin's Sweet Soup means mentioning the famous sweet soup or floating cakes. However, the summer sweet soups here are also worth trying. Not too sweet like sweet soups at many other places, most sweet soups here are just right and flavorful. Lotus seed sweet soup and green bean sweet soup are the two most favored dishes, thanks to their delicate softness and fragrant jasmine scent.

The sweet soups here mainly rely on the natural fragrance of ingredients such as rice, beans, pomelo essence, and jasmine flowers. Sweet soups should have a shiny black color of black beans or a refreshing yellow color of green beans. The beans should be evenly cooked, moderately sweet. If it's a thick sweet soup, it should have the right consistency, neither watery nor lumpy. Winter sweet soups usually have added ginger for warmth or can be eaten hot right when it's still steaming. Those are the very genuine sharings of the shop owner about the delicious sweet soups here. It can be said that delicious sweet soups partly come from the heart of the craftsmen.

Contact Information:
Address: 1 Bát Đàn, Hoàn Kiếm District, Hanoi

Opening hours: 07:30 - 23:00

Price range: 15,000 VND - 25,000 VND

Huyen Sweet Soup Stall is located at the beginning of Thien Quang street, intersecting with Yet Kieu, in Hai Ba Trung district, Hanoi. This place is nearly 40 years old but still retains the sweet flavor in the childhood memories of many generations.

The sweet soups here are not too innovative, but the most special feature, distinguishing it from other sweet soup stalls, is the soup base made from mung beans, emitting a gentle fragrance, refreshing and nutritious. The flavors of the sweet soups have remained strong over the years, perhaps because most of the customers here are elderly people, so the soups are sweet but not overly so, blending seamlessly.

In addition to the traditional sweet soups, the stall also diligently updates its menu with new and attractive dishes such as pomegranate agar jelly, caramel pudding, jackfruit yogurt, and more.

It can be said that this sweet soup stall is suitable for both winter and summer. In the summer, you can enjoy refreshing and sweet soups to beat the heat. But on a cold winter day, you should order a bowl of hot floating cakes, savoring the sweet taste spreading on your tongue, sprinkled with peanuts, black sesame seeds, and freshly grated coconut, it's absolutely delicious. You shouldn't miss Huyen Sweet Soup Stall.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Address: 14 Thien Quang, Hai Ba Trung District, Hanoi

Opening hours: 09:00 - 21:00

Price range: 18,000 VND - 30,000 VND

Visiting Xoan Sweet Soup in Hàng Giấy is sure to leave you satisfied! Freshly sliced fruits, cool and refreshing, combined with condensed milk, yogurt, or caramel, are all delicious. The fruit bowls here are super abundant and affordable. Plus, the menu offers a variety of dishes at very reasonable prices.

The menu mainly consists of fruit sweet soups such as: fruit salad with yogurt, fruit salad with yogurt and jelly, fruit salad with caramel, jackfruit yogurt with sticky rice jelly and tapioca pearls... The sweet soups are delicious, rich, and come with various jellies. You'll definitely love it, even if it's your first time at the stall.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Address: 29 Hàng Giấy, Hoàn Kiếm District, Hanoi

Opening hours: 09:00 - 22:30

Price range: 15,000 VND - 100,000 VND

When it comes to long-standing dessert spots in Hanoi, one cannot overlook the small dessert shop named Thai Lan located within the collective housing area of Giang Vo, facing Kim Ma Street. Not only famous for its simple menu consisting of two unique items, Thai ice cream and sweet soup, this snack bar is also closely associated with many generations of Hanoians, as it was opened by a Vietnamese-Thai grandmother.

The Thai sweet soup here has a simpler composition compared to other places, with only mashed mung beans, coconut milk, fresh coconut, and green jelly strands called 'lap song' in Thai. The taste is light and refreshing, no overwhelming sweetness, just gentle and delightful. No matter how hot the summer is, a bite of this cool sweet soup instantly brings relief.

Aside from the Thai sweet soup, you must try the Thai ice cream with sticky rice! The ice cream here remains traditional, served in a small bowl with sticky rice, ice cream, and sprinkled with some dried coconut. The sticky rice is cooked to perfection, soaked in pandan leaf water, fragrant, and on each grain of sticky rice, you can still see the distinct pieces of pandan leaves.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Address: 289 Kim Ma (117 A5 TT Giang Vo), Ba Dinh District, Hanoi

Price range: 20,000 VND

Opening hours: 10:00 - 22:00

Che is not exclusive to Hanoi, but visiting the capital city without trying che would be a significant omission on your journey to explore Vietnamese cuisine. Especially, not stopping by this nearly 40-year-old che shop with roots from Saigon in Hanoi would indeed be a waste.

The shop is a quaint wooden house, small and simple yet able to accommodate a large number of guests. With a spacious sidewalk, guests can sit outside to enjoy their treats while admiring the Hanoi night sky.

At Cat Thanh Brand Saigon Che - Cat Linh, indulge in a cup of assorted che to experience the flavors of Saigon. At first glance at the che display cabinet, you will be truly captivated by the rich colors of over 20 types of che. There's green rice flakes, yellow corn, red azuki beans, black beans, white coconut milk... and various other fruits. The che here is sweet, cool, smooth, and not overly sweet like in other shops.

If you're accustomed to Northern-style che, switching to the flavors of the South is equally exciting. The sweetness is gentle, complemented by various surprising toppings. Moreover, the shop is open from morning till night, offering a variety of snacks to accompany your che.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Address: 2 Cat Linh, Dong Da District, Hanoi

Opening hours: 15:00 - 22:30

Price range: 15,000đ - 33,000đ

Though called a che shop, this is actually just a small stall located in Thanh Cong Market. Finding this che stall in Thanh Cong Market can be quite time-consuming if you explore on your own, so it's best to ask one of the vendors in the market. This che shop has been around for many years, and was even featured in the movie 'Skyward Front' (2001). Originally owned by Mrs. Hue, it's now mainly run by Mr. Diep - her nephew. Mr. Diep is very friendly, always engaging in conversations with customers, which is why people love this che shop.

This che shop hangs an old signboard listing various types of che, mostly traditional ones like assorted che, green bean che, corn che... Recently, they've added yogurt and hot banh gio (rice dough dumpling). The che here is not overly sweet, the cups are full, and the prices are reasonable, ranging from 15,000 to 20,000 VND per cup. If you ever visit Thanh Cong Market, do explore this che shop.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Address: Thanh Cong Market, Thanh Cong, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi

Opening hours: 07:00 - 22:00

Price range: 15,000 - 20,000 VND per cup

Che Malaysia Mrs. Tuyet is a long-standing che shop in Hanoi, established since 1997 at Chau Long Market and relocated to 55 To Hien Thanh in 2005. Mrs. Tuyet's Che blends ingredients from Malaysia and Vietnam, offering a unique and distinct flavor. The che features the earthy taste of Vietnamese beans combined with the fragrant seeds from Malaysian herbs, and the sweet freshness of coconut milk. With this combination, Che Malaysia Mrs. Tuyet offers many health benefits.

In addition to the signature Malaysian che, the shop also captivates customers with assorted che, green-lotus che, fruit che, durian che, ... During the winter days, the shop adds hot corn che and hot cassava che. Ingredients for making che are meticulously selected to deliver the most delicious flavor. The shop opens from early afternoon until late at night, offering che at 'pocket-friendly' prices for students, workers, and the general public. If you're a 'hardcore' fan of che, then come to Mrs. Tuyet's to taste the delicious and sweet che varieties here!

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Address: 51 To Hien Thanh, Hai Ba Trung District, Hanoi

Phone: 0396 273 589

Opening hours: 13:00 - 19:00

Price range: 20,000 VND/ cup

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