5 summer specialties you must try when coming to Hanoi

Like many northern provinces, Hanoi in the summer will experience sweltering, hot days. This is the time for cool dishes to take the throne, helping the foodies to enjoy both delicious food and cool down the body.

Let’s take a look at 5 dishes specialties that visitors should try when coming to Hanoi at this time.

Trang Tien ice cream

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For a long time, Trang Tien ice cream has been a famous specialty of Hanoi, everyone who comes here has once walked around the lakeside, leisurely enjoying the cool and sweet ice cream while walking.

There are many flavors for you to choose from, from chocolate, vanilla, nuggets, green beans to coconut milk, etc. This specialty of Hanoi does not use chemical sugar, does not use additives and preservatives. When eating, visitors do not suffer from toothache because the ice cream is very soft and flexible.

Crocodile soaked in sugar

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Crocodile is the fruit of the summer, is the raw material for making extremely effective refreshments of Hanoians – sugar-soaked crocodile. Enjoy a glass of sour, sweet and sour water, add a few cool ice cubes, the hot sun will be dispelled no matter what.

You can buy a cup of crocodile juice at many roadside stalls to luxury shops. Or if you want to buy pickled crocodile as a gift or prepare it yourself at home, Hanoians are always willing to serve.

Cold snail vermicelli

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If the dish Hot, smoky, and very popular in winter, the cool, cool snail noodle is a summer specialty of Hanoians. This dish scores points in the rich broth, fatty snails, fresh and clean vegetables, the dipping sauce is prepared with enough sour, spicy, salty and sweet flavors.

Rolled noodle soup

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Pho cuon is also one of the favorite dishes of the capital’s summer. Looking at the smooth, shiny layer of noodle soup wrapped with stir-fried beef, boiled pork, fried eggs, carrots, spring rolls, and coriander, you can see how attractive and seductive it is.

Pho roll served with lots of green vegetables, dipped with slightly spicy dill fish sauce is the perfect choice for hot days.

Mannequin cake

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Hanoians are used to the image of women’s pairs of burdens, full of white mannequins and a pot of delicious and fragrant broth.

This dish is very rustic, idyllic, in fact, it is chopped pieces of molded cake, put in a bowl with a lot of boiled bean sprouts, then sprinkled with a few spoons of cool broth, ecstatically fragrant with the smell of ground sesame. .

According to VTC