Hanoi culinary culture

Each region of Vietnam, apart from the common points, has its own cuisine with the nuances and characteristics of that land, creating a culinary culture not mixed with other places. Hanoi is such a region!

Nearly thousand years old, used to be the capital of many dynasties and lifestyles of Thang Long - Hanoi people, therefore, it has its own characteristics, higher cultural level, including customs, eating habits, etc. Many areas in the country recognize it as worth following, if more conditions exist. In addition to the sophisticated and courtly cuisine, there is a very casual, simple and simple cuisine. There is "luxurious cuisine" and there is "sidewalk cuisine"; In addition to the main meals, Hanoi is a place with many delicious gifts. 

The culinary culture of Hanoi people firstly is that the connoisseurs, “the precious lady of the lake”, the beauty, the deliciousness and the cleanness, the delicacy, the sophisticated processing with high art, whichever is the best dish, fully seasoned so that each dish has a distinctive feature.

Can not tell all the ways of eating Hanoi people are familiar with the elegant way. Which season is awake, now is the time. In March, we eat vegetarian bread, in August we eat moon cakes, we make glutinous rice in May, eat autumn rice nuggets with persimmons or bananas.

In the morning, Thanh Tri roll cake, Hoang Mai rice sticky rice, will be eaten at the street in the evening, the night will be served with giant sausages, lunch will be served ... Hanoi dishes are not a delicacy. are the rustic dishes reminiscent of the Hanoi flavor that people who are far away from Hanoi will never forget. Not only that, writer Vũ Bằng lived in Sài Gòn for decades, far away from Hà Nội, but he lived with long-suffering illness, nostalgia, iron-like nostalgia, like the ancients in ancient Chinese classic that Vũ Bằng led the first words in "Hanoi delicacies": "In the capital of Han Truong saw corn falling fall wells, then he suddenly remembered pure vegetables, crocodile and want to hang the seal back to the old countryside." The writer Nguyen Tuan has a hobby of eating Pho in Hanoi, so that during the occasion of attending the World Peace Conference in Hensiki (Finland), only less than a week away from Hanoi, Mr. Nguyen remembered pho, that is : "We miss the pig because we are away from the country,

Hanoi cuisine is mentioned in many poems, writers and journalists like Pham Dinh Ho, Cao Ba Quat, Vu Bang, Nguyen Tuan, Thach Lam, Bang Son, Mai Khoi ... a wide range of Hanoi culinary specialties through folk verses and oral proverbs: drift rice cake in Gieng village, Bun village of Sin and Tu Ky villages, perch of Sampan perch, ginseng in Ho Tay, orange Canh, grapefruit Dien, Ban banana , Ca Lang, Thanh Tri rolls, Ke village thick pancakes, So thin rice cakes, Do Bui cast cakes, Sao village sauce, Cho ham, Drawing spring rolls ...

As for gifts, Hanoi has raised the art of eating to many places. When it comes to pho, people immediately think of North pho, but North pho is nowhere near that of Hanoi. Vu Bang once wrote that pho is a breakfast of all Vietnamese people. Vietnamese people may not eat this or that, but surely everyone has ever eaten pho. The best noodle soup is Hanoi. Whenever people see Hanoians eating pho, they can stop anyone from having to ... eat. Thanh Tri roll cake made Thach Lam must be compared to a piece of silk, cool with the tip of the tongue. Bun con is a strange dish of Hanoi, there are hot dishes, cold dishes, sour vinegar dish suddenly there, there are dishes that Thach Lam saw the girls eat it, tears of tears because of sour spicy, he commented the drops. These tears are more true than the tears of love ... Then again, the nuggets of rice are no longer beyond Nguyen Ninh and Hang Than.

In addition to eating, Hanoians drink very carefully and thoughtfully. Many families in Hanoi on Tet holiday cannot lack the sweet, sweet aroma of lotus tea cup, which is the fragrant tea of ​​Ho Tay lotus. Good wine in Hanoi, the great poet Nguyen Trai has mentioned: lotus wine, chrysanthemum wine as a product of Thuong Kinh land in the geographical balance. Some famous wine famous places such as Hoang Mai, Thuy, Vong, Ngau and Tho Khoi ... are famous wine-making places.

La Vong grilled fish restaurant has become a brand known by many people at home and abroad. This unique dish dates back to the late 19th century, according to the tradition, this famous dish belongs to the Doan family in Hang Son street, Hanoi, until the resounding reputation of La Vong grilled fish that changed the name of Hang street Paint the city of Cha Ca.

Nem Ve was famous throughout the period, ranked as a delicacy and never lacked on the tray of the king giving water to the poinsettias and doctors.

“Cut to spring roll, Spring rolls

You retired, I should be salty

Ward streets near the market, far

Tasty tidbit, our language is done well ”

Tran lotus jam has been compared to it as a national soul, a quintessence because it has become a special gift since Hanoi people used it on special occasions such as New Year, weddings and weddings. . Just know that, until now, lotus jam has become the most famous delicacies, the most famous dish is Hanoi lotus jam, and the famous brand is Ninh Huong ethnic confectionery shop at 22 Hang Dieu because it is made. by traditional methods according to its own secrets to retain the natural color of lotus seeds, moderate sweetness, fresh scent of grapefruit flowers, keeping the sweet, cool stick in each lotus seed. 

The dishes in Hanoi are very sophisticatedly processed, sophisticatedly artistic, sometimes the chefs become culinary artisans like Dinh Ba Chau, Anh Tuyet ... perform.

The way of eating of the ancient Hanoians was very delicate and sophisticated, a meal usually had many dishes but not many each. The conceptual concept of enjoying food, not eating to fill it. Each dish is made meticulously and carefully, so when enjoying it is also a sip, from small pieces, feel from the tip of the tongue to enjoy to the end the flavors contained in each dish.

Foreign tourists when enjoying the traditional tray at Anh Tuyet restaurant, enjoy the dishes with typical flavors full of Hanoi culinary culture, Vietnamese cuisine. Mr. Anthony Bourdain - a famous chef in the US, traveled a lot, ate many dishes in many countries around the world, when visiting and enjoying the traditional dishes of Ha Thanh land at Anh Tuyet restaurant in the middle Ma May Old Quarter had to say: This is a true cultural value of Vietnamese people, rarely anywhere else.

So, we have a Vietnam "thousand years of culture", and a "thousand years of culture" in Hanoi, why not - and actually include - a culinary cultural heritage Vietnamese - Hanoi cuisine.