9 Hoe Nhai
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Vietnamese eat on the street. Sidewalks of Hanoi's Old Quarter turn into a big outdoor kitchen at lunch time. Pots are boiling and eaters, sitting on small plastic chairs at small plastic tables, busily clicking their chopsticks. Each eatery prides its own specialty, practiced for years, yet the most famous is pho - a traditional Vietnamese noodle soup. Historically coming from the north of the country, a little enhanced by Hanoi's cooks, it has become a symbol for the city in a way. The secret of good pho lies in good stock. Every morning a cook brings fresh beef bones from the market and puts in cold water. After a short parboiling, the first water is poured off and the kettle refilled again, adding ginger, onions and other spices this time. Each chef has a slightly different recipe, therefore pho may taste differently each time you eat it. It's also important that noodles are made of the best quality rice and the resulting soup, poured into your dish, looks appetizing as well. Vietnamese pay great attention to esthetic aspect as well - white noodles, brown strips of beef, green onions, yellow ginger, red chilly...A day starts with pho and it's a habitual ritual of Hanoi's winter as well. If you don't feel like sitting on the street, another choice is an inside space of the same kitchen. A big pot boils out there, while eaters can savor their daily meal in an improvised ground floor cafeteria. A content of the plate is the same, yet you can enjoy a little more privacy away from the busy street and bustling passers-by. There are loads of pleasant eateries, while the one, worth mentioning, is 9 Hoe Nhai. It is famous for the fact that the same Vietnamese woman cooks exactly the same two soups, Bun Oc and Bun Cua (varieties of a traditional Vietnamese soup), for more than 10 years already.
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