Hanoi street food stall in the Old Quarter

Hanoi Traveler’s Guide 2026 — Part 3: Street Food

Hanoi is a city you can eat your way through. The best meals are often not behind polished restaurant doors but on a pavement, in a narrow alley, beside a charcoal grill or at a family shop that has been serving the same dish for decades. This is Part 3 of our Hanoi Traveler’s Guide 2026. The goal is simple: help you understand what to eat, when to eat it, how to order it and where to start...
Vietnamese egg coffee in Hanoi

Hanoi Traveler’s Guide 2026 — Part 2: Best Cafés in Hanoi

Hanoi is one of the great coffee cities of Asia. Coffee here is not simply something you buy on the way to work. It is a daily ritual: a slow phin filter dripping into a glass, friends sitting on tiny stools, long conversations in hidden upstairs rooms, and increasingly, a new generation of specialty roasters treating Vietnamese beans with the same seriousness as wine. This is Part 2 of our...