Pho BatDan – Ha Noi

"Re-bucket" - a noodle house shouting. A step up his pay, took the bucket and then re beef bowls on the table self-extracting. Prussia constant hot air burns your hands, but he seems happy customers too!

Hang up the progress after each step of the home pho reefs. I came to traditional brand noodles, No. 49 Bat Dan Street, Hoan Kiem District, it was 9 o'clock and consumer lines remain frozen to eat pho. After my long line of people out themselves.

But also do not have to wait long

Kitchen to the left signal pho noodle soup. A 50-year-old man carrying apron Trac cantering out five sets to cut the size of 5 kg of small slices, beside a woman for bread, meat and spices into a bowl and then pass for a young man standing behind bucket water noodle, sometimes for more firewood in the oven. But also do not have to wait long, about 5 minutes is my turn to pay and bring beef bowls on the table near re.

Surface water bowls floating fat layer of chopped leaves. Pho Hanoi is not served with genuine value, herbs, bay leaves, ngo gai ... as in Saigon. Spices can be added to the same fiery chili and lime. Mouth tasting noodle house just so you do not need more fish sauce. Thin noodles, meat is tender and fragrant, but especially near the very soft cooked to melt in the mouth to mouth.

Pho is one of the main breakfast dishes in Hanoi. One of my friend Ha Noi, said in Hanoi has many restaurants cook very tasty but people like to keep it in line to eat pho. You've also eaten here many times. Chao pho water once burned hands I made him mad you swear not to shop anymore. Yet the opportunity to visit Hanoi is how do you enlist a bowl.

So this traditional noodle shop is nothing special to pull people in line here? Observed relatively small restaurant, low-built house style of Hanoi, within a mere six sets of tables and chairs. From layout to appliances racing cars are popular, even with the slightly worn. Pub little tight compared to some diners at McDonald's out there. Why do not people see the ground or open more branches? Were not the noodle business acumen as Saigon?

According to my friend, 49 restaurants lining this forced from the 60s of last century, nearly half-century existence as the old customs are still almost unchanged. At that time, pho line is familiar images of Hanoi. It has become memories, ingrained in the memories of many generations.

Well, when the Hanoi pho line, remember to buy more newspapers to wait their turn to read, and it is important to be mixed in the cookery of the Ha Noi!
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