Traditional food of Đông Bắc: 11 dishes

• Phở · Soup & stew · Hanoi and Nam Định

  Pho appears in records only in the early 20th century, in the north of Vietnam.

• Bún chả · Noodles & pasta · Hanoi

  Bún chả is Hanoi's lunch: grilled pork, both patties and slices of belly, served in a bowl of warm fish-sauce dressing with pickled papaya, alongside cold rice noodles and a basket of herbs.

• Chả cá Lã Vọng · Main dish · Hanoi

  Chả cá Lã Vọng is Hanoi's grilled fish, and a whole street is named after it.

• Bún thang · Noodles & pasta · Hanoi

  Bún thang is one of Hanoi's most painstaking noodle soups; the Vietnamese source estimates that it needs about twenty ingredients.

• Bánh cuốn · Snack · Northern Vietnam

  Bánh cuốn are rolls of rice sheet so thin it is almost transparent.

• Bún đậu mắm tôm · Noodles & pasta · Hanoi

  Bún đậu mắm tôm is a simple, cheap Hanoi meal built around a powerful dip.

• Egg coffee cà phê trứng · Drink · Hanoi

  Cà phê trứng is strong robusta coffee filtered through a phin and topped with egg yolks whipped with sugar and condensed milk into a thick, sweet cream.

• Bánh chưng · Rice dish · Northern Vietnam

  Bánh chưng is the square rice cake of Tết, the Lunar New Year.

• Thắng cố · Soup & stew · Northwest highlands (Lào Cai and Hà Giang)

  Thắng cố is the traditional stew of the Hmong people of Vietnam's northern highlands, cooked in a huge pan over charcoal at markets, village festivals and gatherings.

• Cốm · Snack · Hanoi

  Cốm is young green rice, flattened.

• Bánh tôm Hồ Tây · Snack · Hanoi

  Bánh tôm Hồ Tây are crisp shrimp fritters from Hanoi's West Lake.

Food by city in Vietnam

• Traditional food of Hanoi: 6 dishes

Other regions in Vietnam

• Traditional food of Đông Nam Bộ: 7 dishes
• Traditional food of Bắc Trung Bộ: 5 dishes
• Traditional food of đồng bằng sông Cửu Long: 5 dishes
• Food of Vietnam