
Date of Visit: 18 - 26 Oct 2008
Touched down Hanoi, already people trying to rip us off so we decided to take a public bus. Its a blessing in disguise as we had an out of city tour before we reached Hanoi's Old Quarter

Our first meal. Sticky rice and meat. Don't know its name but it's not cheap though, about RM6

The very cool auntie who make very nice "Hong Kong Chee Cheong Fun" type of food

Honoians will do anything on their bike. Here, buying toys for their kids

Stuffed animals

The road near Hoan Kiem Lake

Very long night market which happens from Friday till Sunday

The dessert looks yummy but since its our first night, we couldn't take the risk of having food poisoning. Didn't try

People walking only from one direction on the night market. One lane go and one lane back. So unlike the way they ride their bikes

The very cheap(RM0.75 per glass) but very smooth bia hoi (means draught beer in Viet)

This is the cross road where we had our bia hoi

Motorbike "taxie" which could carry 3 passengers

Apart from ripping off tourists, the locals love excercise

The Korean community Catholic church. The building seems very much Chinese influenced

One of the very old Catholic church in Hanoi

Roadside cafe where the coffee is excellent

Roadside cafe

Roadside cafe

Apart from the excellent coffee, the ice-blended custard apple is good too

Unfortunately the excellent coffee came in very small cup, too small

Students coming out of the church

Cool dudes having their coffee

Cigarettes sellers

Another delicious find (thanks to Chow Shevy's guidebook), a tomatoe soup flat noodle

Hit the street again as we are going to take the night train to Sapa

Street view

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