







5. Mrs. Yen's Offal Porridge
CallIf you're looking for a breakfast and lunch suggestion, here's the perfect choice. Nestled in Liên Việt alley is a stall selling offal porridge that satisfies customers with both its service and taste. Mrs. Yen's Offal Porridge opens quite early, around 7 a.m., and it's already bustling with customers. Everyone who comes here wants to enjoy a delicious and nutritious bowl of offal porridge for breakfast to start a long, exhausting, and stressful day of work. The porridge here is simmered with bone broth, with green beans adding fragrance, and stewed pork intestines with scallions, plus a few pieces of fried dough sticks, making it a nutritious breakfast.
The porridge at Mrs. Yen's Offal Porridge is full of ingredients, including fried offal if you prefer, such as liver, kidney, heart, lungs, and stomach, giving you a complete taste experience. Perhaps customers come here partly because they appreciate the simple, rustic nature of the establishment combined with its quality. There isn't much advertising or reviews for the place, but word of mouth spreads, so anyone who tries it once becomes a regular customer. A steaming bowl of fragrant porridge amidst the cold evening air like this is a great suggestion for a light meal, isn't it? Invite your close friends to enjoy the delicious flavors at an affordable price during peak hours, folks.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Address: Liên Việt Alley, Nguyễn Lương Bằng, Đống Đa, Hanoi
Phone: 0942 736 218
Opening hours: 07:00 - 10:00


6. Precious Heart Porridge by Yen's
CallAmidst the influx of new eateries, Precious Heart Special Porridge by Yen's still attracts diners with its delicious taste, catering to the preferences of many. What sets this place apart is its hearty and crispy offal, unlike many others where it's thin. The porridge here has a deeply traditional flavor, with soft and smooth grains; offal, intestines, tail fat,... all mingling in the bowl, tempting diners with just a glance.
The bowl of Yen's Porridge also contains other special ingredients such as chewy offal; crispy throat cartilage; white tender pig tripe; tender and fragrant chicken gizzard and liver. All these combine to make an incredibly enticing bowl of porridge. The quality of the porridge here is top-notch, with thick and creamy consistency, flavorful offal, chewy tail, tender tripe, and crunchy gizzard and liver. The staff are very efficient and enthusiastic, so even when the restaurant is crowded, the food is served quickly, sparing diners from long waits. For those who have been in Hanoi for years, they surely cannot overlook Precious Heart Porridge by Yen's.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Address: 185 Hoàng Cầu Mới, Đống Đa, Hanoi
Phone: 0944 041 673
Opening hours: 06:00 - 14:00 | 17:00 - 21:00


7. Old Fish Cake Restaurant
Old Fish Cake at 171 Thái Hà is an address not to be missed if you want to enjoy the famous fish cake dish of Hanoi. With a selection limited to just a few dishes: fish cake, fish intestines, fish porridge, you won't waste time deciding what to order. The restaurant also serves seafood porridge to customers. Seafood porridge is prepared from fish, shrimp, crab, mussels,... When enjoying it, you will feel the sweetness of all the ingredients. The broth is sweet and clear, the meat of the seafood is sweet and tender, creating a perfect bowl of porridge. After eating fish cake, customers can enjoy the traditional fish porridge of the restaurant, which is very suitable. Because it can be considered a dish that warms the stomach. On cold rainy days, what could be more suitable than enjoying a hot bowl of fish porridge. Especially, with a dining space that is considered elegant and refined, the price for each dish here is said to be very affordable and many people can come to enjoy it.
Old Fish Cake has a spacious, elegant, comfortable space, the golden fish cake is extremely delicious, without feeling fishy because the fish has been cleaned. Especially, a point that makes the fish cake of the restaurant even more delicious is the accompanying shrimp paste, which is not overly sweet but very flavorful and satisfying. With the attentive and cheerful service style of both the owner and the staff, the restaurant has an added plus for customers who have eaten here and will want to come back for a second time. Come and discover for yourself another delicious and unique dish of the ancient capital.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Address: 171 Thái Hà, Đống Đa, Hanoi
Phone: 024 3514 6768
Opening hours: 10:00 - 14:00 | 17:00 - 22:00


8. Rib Porridge, Black Bean Porridge by Grandma Chang
Rib Porridge, Black Bean Porridge at Grandma Chang's is one of the oldest famous porridge stalls in Hanoi. The special thing about the stall is that the porridge is made from broken rice, so the grains are smooth and small. The delicious natural aroma of the porridge comes from the bone broth simmered for many hours. The stall offers many types of porridge for customers to choose from such as heart, liver, oval squash, egg, dough sticks,... Ordering a hot bowl of porridge, accompanied by crispy heart pieces, a few slices of chili, and a bowl of bamboo shoot soup is superb.
Rib Porridge, Black Bean Porridge at Grandma Chang's is so famous that regular customers say that even just eating plain porridge is heavenly. The rib porridge is absolutely fantastic, with tender, plentiful, sweet, and richly flavored rib meat. You can order a bowl of porridge, crispy dough sticks, and a bit of salty shrimp paste for a satisfying, contented evening, not wanting to leave. Making rib porridge in the morning and black bean porridge in the evening, your day will surely be unmatched. The place is always crowded, with a new pot of porridge being sold every now and then. In the afternoon, people stand or sit around the porridge cart because there is no fixed seating here.
Address: 109 Van Huong Alley, Dong Da, Hanoi
Opening hours: 6:00 - 21:00


9. Rib and Quail Egg Porridge at Luong Su C
The Rib and Quail Egg Porridge at Luong Su C is famous for its rib and minced meat porridge with added quail eggs for a unique taste. Although the restaurant has a small and somewhat hard-to-find location, it's not a problem for food enthusiasts. The moment it opened, it was crowded. The porridge is sold all day at 37 Luong Su C, so you can visit at any time of the day. Hanoi's fragrant and hot rib porridge has long been a late afternoon snack, a light breakfast, or a warm evening meal for Hanoians. Finely ground rice cooked with tender ribs creates a smooth porridge, crispy dough sticks, a bit of pepper, and chili powder give you a true Hanoi-style porridge.
The porridge is thick, perfectly seasoned, the dough sticks are crispy, and the pepper is fragrant. A complete bowl here includes porridge, dough sticks, shredded pork, minced meat, and a little chopped green onion and cilantro. The delicious porridge, full bowl, crispy ribs, chewy and flavorful, brings pleasure to the teeth and taste buds. The thick ribs are tender and fragrant when cooked in the thick porridge pot. Eating this bowl of porridge when tired is truly wonderful. The porridge at Luong Su C is so famous that regular customers say that even just eating plain porridge is heavenly. The place is always crowded, with a new pot of porridge being sold every now and then.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Address: 37 Luong Su C, Dong Da, Hanoi
Opening hours: 11:30 – 18:00


